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📢Hurry up! Nominate your hero! 🎾 There’s still time to get the forms in, and celebrate your local volunteer, club, or coach in the 2025 LTA Tennis Awards, presented by Lexus UK. Nominations close on 30th November ⏰ Find out all the details and get top tips on how to submit a great nomination here: https://lnkd.in/eSyNEWXi #tennisopenedup #LTAtennisawards

As #BlackHistoryMonth draws to an end we have been celebrating the amazing work of three friends – all LTA accredited coaches. 🎾 Rushan Tonge-bobia, Angela Zamara and Memuna Koroma set up #SheCanServe. It's an all-female community which creates a safe space for women and encourages them to pick up a racket and get out on court. Read more about their journey👉: https://lnkd.in/eHHD-UPe #tennisopenedup

In the same week that the Davis Cup took place at Manchester's AO Arena, The King's Trust also delivered their #LTATennisFoundation funded programme; Get Started in Tennis. The King's Trust's programme has been designed to open up the working world of tennis to young people from underserved communities. To put some of the theory into practice, the LTA Tennis Foundation arranged for the group to visit the Davis Cup and speak to LTA staff to understand more about their roles and the paths they had taken to get to where they are today. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eRvycNFU #TennisOpenedUp

“We’ve just scratched the surface.”   Black Tennis Mentors UK co-founders Arum Akom and Jabilayh Asante discuss the deep-rooted meaning of Black History Month, the importance of reclaiming the narrative and how the past is crucial to understanding how to enact positive change in the future. Having already had great success in supporting black tennis leaders and creating opportunities for future leaders to develop, Black Tennis Mentors recently won the Sporting Equals LTA Tennis Foundation Community Tennis Award. And Arum and Jabilayh's work has only just begun as they plan to develop a more diverse system of players, coaches, officials and staff in the wider tennis workforce, through their own work and their membership of the newly established Black Tennis Collective.    Learn more about Black Tennis Mentors and their inspiring work here: https://lnkd.in/eBtY5NGm #BlackTennisMentors #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackTennisCollective

Join the final safeguarding engagement session of 2024 ℹ️ 📆 4 November 2024 🕗 7:00 PM   Hosted by the LTA safeguarding team, venues can register below 👇   https://lnkd.in/gQWDr5nP

We've been bringing together more than 200 park tennis operator and local authority representatives from across England, Scotland and Wales at a series of park tennis forums. 🎾   The Park Tennis Project is about more than simply transforming facilities, with continued engagement and collaboration with local authorities and tennis operators vital to ensuring park tennis courts across Britain can truly open the sport up to people from all communities and backgrounds.   The project has now transformed over 2500 courts, and you can read about the impact this is delivering across the country: https://lnkd.in/e5vYsMdg

Supporting the NSPCC's ‘Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport’ Week 🤝 The LTA earlier this week hosted its ‘Safe to Play’ Annual Safeguarding Conference – read more & register to watch all the sessions here ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/eNGPPAYX

"Tennis is special as it allows me a sense of freedom"   On #WorldSightDay, hear from British No.1 visually impaired (VI) tennis player Naqi Rizvi his love for VI tennis and his journey to becoming World Number 1: https://lnkd.in/ezCNYqJ5    VI tennis is one of the leading sports for blind and partially sighted people in Britain, and is played in more than 30 countries around the world.   Through the LTA's VI tennis performance programme, British VI tennis players like Naqi have have the opportunity to travel and compete around the world.

This #WorldMentalHealthDay and every day, make sure to check in on those around you.    Tennis is a great way to help relieve stress and anxiety, so why not check out all the ways you can get out and play: https://lnkd.in/eCKR7gU8

The Park Tennis Project has now transformed more than 2500 courts across Britain. Thanks to an investment of over £30 million from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the LTA Tennis Foundation, park tennis courts across the country have been brought back to life and into long-term sustainable use, to open tennis up to many more people. Find out how this investment is helping more people of all ages and backgrounds to pick up a racket and get active: https://lnkd.in/e5vYsMdg