Firstly, I would like to thank Blackhill Windfarm Community Fund for awarding us this grant. We have now had the courts repainted and purchased three new nets as can be seen in the attached photograph.
Over the last few months, we have been trying to attract new players to come and try tennis by running a number of free sessions. We have run 3 ‘come and try sessions ’on a Saturday afternoon. The first was well attended but the last one only attracted one player. We will revisit these sessions once the schools are back. We have also run an after school session on a Wednesday afternoon which has been well attended by secondary school pupils. We will hope to continue to encourage young people to come and use our courts by providing sessions after school.
We also held a holiday camp at the beginning of July which was attended by 10 young people and was run by our club coach.
We still need to purchase a power washer to maintain the courts. This will be done in the next few weeks.
Again, many thanks for your support and if there is any further information I can provide, please do not hesitate to contact me.
