Awards for All
Ever thought awards were impossible and not for your Squash or Tennis club or organisation? Take a peek at the following awards made in the East of England 6 counties in the past 18 months
| APPLICANT NAME | VALUE | LA AREA | INFO: PRESS RELEASE | INFO: MONEY IS FOR | AWARD DATE | PROJECT ACTIVITY |
| Lister Colts Tennis Club | £4,128.00 | Stevenage | Tennis club uses an award to provide opportunities for disabled people to take up develop skills in through coaching and enjoy playing the sport | Court hire fees, coach fees, tennis equipment | 23/07/2003 | Disability sports |
| Mid East Regional Squash Development Group | £4,839.00 | Nottingham | Is to provide mini squash development in the four of the Eastern region counties with workshops to train volunteers to deliver introductory sessions/school club links and competitions to bring young players into the sport and provide on going opportunities. | Volunteer workshops costs mini squash equipment, mini squash coaches resources pack, school/club link competitions. | 23/07/2003 | Squash |
| Langham Village School | £562.00 | North Norfolk | To set up an after school table tennis club, To run on aweekly basis and to participate in a local table tennis league | Table tennis/nets balls,bats/coaching | 23/07/2003 | Table tennis |
| Waterside Squash Club | £2,608.00 | Castle Point | Organising open days and related events to encourage people of all ages and abilities in the local area to take up squash and racketball. | Coaching courses, squash and racketball open days | 17/09/2003 | Squash |
| University of Third Age (U3A) Burnham on Crouch Branch | £500.00 | Maldon | Group wish to provide members with physical and social interaction by setting up a table tennis group | Table tennis tables, bats, balls | 23/07/2003 | Table tennis |
| Lexden Junior Development | £2,730.00 | Colchester | Squash club uses award to implement development programme | Coach Education, Equipment, Court hire, publicity and coaching for development squads | 17/09/2003 | Squash |
| Great Dunmow Tennis Club | £5,000.00 | Uttlesford | Tennis club uses award to provide floodlights to extend playing time and enable more people to play/be coached | Floodlights | 17/09/2003 | Lawn tennis |
| The Burnt Mill Academy of Table Tennis Skills | £2,515.00 | Harlow | To set up a junior ladder league for children aged 16 and under to run through the winter. | Venue hire, sports equipment and coaching fees. | 17/09/2003 | Table tennis |
| Potters Bar Lawn Tennis Club | £5,000.00 | Welwyn Hatfield | An on-going special needs programme providing opportunities to children with learning and physical special needs. | Training, professional coaching, equipment, expenses, rent, admin and advertising | 17/09/2003 | Disability sports |
| Ipswich Sports Club Squash Development Group | £4,998.00 | Babergh | Start-up costs providing Ipswich and the surrounding rural areas with facilities to promote squash. To visit local schools providing taster sessions and fun events. Coaching courses will be ran encouraging children to join regular after school groups. | Coach education, equipment, school visits, beginner and improver courses, open day costs and publicity. | 22/10/2003 | Squash |
| Chelmsford Junior Squash Club | £4,950.00 | Chelmsford | Introduce racketball and school holiday coaching courses open to all young people in the area to develop skills and encourage greater participation in the sport. | Holiday courses, equipment, coaching, publicity | 17/09/2003 | Squash |
| Fulbourn Table Tennis Club | £2,546.00 | South Cambridgeshire | To increase quality, quantity and range of equipment in order to increase community participation. To subsidise training courses and coaching to increase school/club links, professional fees, keeping development within the English Table Tennis Assoc. development plan and assisting with transport costs involved with taking the sport into schools. | Match-standard tables, coaching robot, table surrounds, coaching qualification costs. | 17/09/2003 | Table tennis |
| Bury St Edmunds Table Tennis Club | £1,335.00 | Mid Suffolk | Sports club uses an award to develop a further centre for coaching as well as social and competitive play in the area of a local school | Sports equipment - x 3 table tennis tables, table tennis balls and coaching time x 2 ten week courses | 17/09/2003 | Table tennis |
| Matts Tennis Academy | £4,820.00 | Broadland | Start-up costs to run after school tennis coaching and to promote tennis in the community by running sports days currently not available in this area. | Equipment, Coach education, Promotion, Travelling expenses, First Aid Costs, Venue Hire | 22/10/2003 | Lawn tennis |
| Wensum Table Tennis Club | £3,000.00 | Broadland | Start-up costs for a new club in a community where currently there is no opportunity to play sport. To run weekly coaching sessions and open play sessions attracting as many players as possible. | Coaching fees, Table tennis tables x 2, hall hire, start-up equipment | 22/10/2003 | Table tennis |
| Kingswood Squash Club Juniors | £4,994.00 | Basildon | Group to strengthen club infrastructure by providing volunteers with coaching opportunities and to forge links with local schools encouraging young people to participate in squash. | coach education, equipment, coaching costs, school links, beginners courses, improver courses, tournaments, publicity | 22/10/2003 | Squash |
| Flint Tennis Club | £530.00 | Luton | Group to offer tennis coaching for juniors and adults in the community, encouraging people to take up the sport. | coach, tennis balls, tennis rackets | 22/04/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| Lowestoft Squash Club | £4,393.00 | Waveney | Squash club to introduce squash/racket games to local schools. Will offer free out of school hour coaching courses to primary and secondary schools and establish a subsidised junior section of the club. | Equipment, training fees, subsidised fees for one year to formulate junior section, transport. | 22/04/2004 | Squash |
| Cambourn Lawn Tennis Club | £1,305.00 | South Cambridgeshire | Cambourne Lawn Tennis Club gets an award to develop new tennis facilities to enable anyone to hire a court at affordable rates | Tennis nets, posts and equipment, tennis balls | 22/04/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| Glinton and District Tennis and Sports Club | £4,889.00 | Peterborough | The award will provide quality coaching and supervision in an area with low provision for tennis. Families, children and adults alike, will be able to participate in the sport of tennis. The development of links with other groups in the community to promote tournaments and events, this will motivate and challenge children to guage their improvement in the sport. | Coaching, equipment and marketing costs. | 20/05/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| Letchworth Tennis Club Ltd | £4,250.00 | North Hertfordshire | Developing a mini-tennis programme of activities, providing hundreds of local school children with an opportunity to take part and learn new skills in the courses. | appointment of part-time coach from Sept to Dec, promotional materials, transport costs, coaching equipment and balls | 15/06/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| Coddenham Rackets Club | £1,048.00 | Mid Suffolk | Newly established badminton/tennis club wishes to encourage local participation and breakdown barriers by providing equipment to loan to people to try the sports and to provide coaching for specifically for beginners of all ages. | coaching (badminton and tennis), loan equipment | 11/08/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| Marshland High School | £4,993.00 | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | To establish a table tennis centre working with Wisbech table tennis club. The centre will be used by the whole community as well as by local feeder primary schools looking to offer out of hours clubs. | 12 x table tennis tables/nets, 48 bats, balls, coaching | 14/10/2004 | Table tennis |
| Wymondley Table Tennis Club | £3,749.00 | North Hertfordshire | Sports club uses an award to provide further facilities and equipment to enable them to implement development plans - attracting many more new players with equipment and coaching provided to equip new people to develop skills and enjoy playing the game | Venue hire, 1 table tennis table with surrounds and 30 starter bats, external coaching, robot serving machine, ETTA coaching awards x 3 and 70 Dunlop skills awards, skills development programmes and practice balls | 14/09/2004 | Table tennis |
| Colchester Learning Through Sport Partnership | £5,000.00 | Chelmsford | An award aimed at developing tennis coaching capacity to provide much needed opportunties - for girls enthused by early contact with the sport to move on from beginner level with coaching and playing at a higher level. A Health Awareness Festival to re-inforce the health message and encourage a healthier lifestyle amongst girls and young women will also be supported. | Two levels of Tennis Coach Education courses, staffing for a Health Awareness Festival(two days July 05), Travel costs for festival, venue hire and admin costs | 14/09/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| Potters Bar Lawn Tennis Club | £5,000.00 | Welwyn Hatfield | To provide tennis coaching for people with special needs including wheelchairs users and the hearing impaired. | Training for coaches, coach fees, assistant coach/helper fees | 14/10/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| South Creake Tennis Club | £2,147.00 | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | To help tennis club improve facilities and provide coaching for youngsters in this very rural village. The River Burn runs along one side of the tennis courts and perimeter fencing is required to ensure safety for anyone playing on the tennis courts, whether they are members of the club, casual players or children. | fencing for two double tennis courts, coaching fees, tennis rackets and balls | 14/10/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| Herts Junior Squash Association | £5,000.00 | Enfield | To encourage more children to participate in mini squash. In particular the association are looking to target local schools and encourage girls and children with a disability to take part. This will be achieved by building capacity through the training of more coaches, the provision of equipment and organisation of activities. | coaching courses, mini squash wall, development kits, junior sessions and tournaments. | 14/12/2004 | Squash |
| Water Lane Primary School | £2,630.00 | Epping Forest | The award will enable the school to set up an after school table tennis club for all the pupils forging links with BATTS Table Tennis Club in Harlow. | Table tennis tables (x3), Bats, Balls, Batskills game, Robot feeder, Level 2 Coaching. | 14/12/2004 | Table tennis |
| Northlands Junior School | £2,433.00 | Basildon | School uses an award to develop tennis as a new after school club activity & and provide children with an opportunity to play in a tournament |
Sports Equipment, after school tennis coaching and an after school tournament |
22/10/2003 | Lawn tennis |
| Ashmanhaugh & Beeston Preston Rooms Management Association | £3,097.00 | North Norfolk | To extend the activities available at the village hall for the 150 residents of this rural village. The hall are looking to offer indoor bowls for the wider community and a youth club. | bowls equipment, table tennis equipment, short tennis kit, pool table and storage shed. | 22/10/2003 | Table tennis |
| Baddow Village Table Tennis Club | £2,455.00 | Chelmsford | Table tennis club uses an award to provide additional equipment to meet demand at a new larger venue | Table tennis tables | 22/10/2003 | Table tennis |
| North Walsham Squash Club | £4,934.00 | North Norfolk | To offer squash taster sessions to local schools and set up an intermediate group for improvers on Saturday mornings. Also to send two volunteers on a level one coaching course and the current coach on a second level course. | equipment, coach education, professional fees, court hire and publicity | 19/11/2003 | Squash |
| Great Shelford Tennis Club | £4,742.00 | North Hertfordshire | Local tennis club to develop community links by offering free mini tennis lessons to primary schools. Children who wish to pursue the sport will then be offered structured club sessions, subsidised by the club. | coaching fees and equipment | 19/11/2003 | Lawn tennis |
| Lexden Tennis Development | £4,970.00 | Colchester | To develop the game of tennis in the Borough of Colchester giving junior players the opportunity to learn and enjoy tennis offering qualified coaching, tournament play and matches. | Equipment (Junior tennis rackets), coach education and fees, publicity/admin | 16/12/2003 | Lawn tennis |
| Trinity St Mary's C of E Primary School | £5,000.00 | Chelmsford | School wish to initiate a programme of extra curricular activities in the form of before and after school coaching sessions in dance, squash and golf. They aim to link with Essex dance theatre to work towards a production of Lion King and also perform a collection of African inspired dancing. | dance/theatre coaching, squash coaching, golf coaching, transport and admin. | 28/01/2004 | Squash |
| Gazeley Table Tennis Club | £650.00 | Forest Heath | To provide juniors with an adjustable table to make playing easier and to supply volunteers with coaching certificates. | Adjustable table tennis table, E.T.T.A. sports leader award | 28/01/2004 | Table tennis |
| Sawbridgeworth Tennis Club | £4,000.00 | East Hertfordshire |
Tennis club uses an award to provide a kids' zone complete with line
markings for a variety of sporting activities to attract more young people and facilitate a range of sporting skills to equip the young people to play better tennis |
Kids' zone equipment and line painting and tree root barrier work | 25/02/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| Oakington & Westwick Table Tennis Club | £3,190.00 | South Cambridgeshire |
Rural Village sports club uses an award to provide equipment start up
costs to be able top accommodate the demand from the village and the surrounding rural area |
Table tennis equipment - x 4 tables with nets, club TT bats, training balls safety play barriers and an automatic ball feeder | 18/03/2004 | Table tennis |
| Watton Table Tennis Club | £4,767.00 | Breckland | Club get an award to increase participation in table tennis for all ages in a very rural area by running demonstrations and taster sessions at groups such as after school clubs, youth clubs and over 50's clubs. | Table tennis equipment, electronic ball feeder, van hire, coaching | 25/02/2004 | Table tennis |
| March Town Table Tennis League | £2,830.00 | Fenland | Table Tennis League uses an award to attract many more people aged 7 to 70+ years to playing table tennis in the Fenland area by providing venue coaches equipment etc |
Table Tennis tables , coaching, Robot trainer (serving machine) and
Coach Education courses x 4, Child Protection courses x 2, bats and balls |
18/03/2004 | Table tennis |
| Kelvedon Hatch Tennis and Social Club | £943.00 | Brentwood | Tennis and social club uses an award to extend involvement and enjoyment of tennis amongst young children in their area - providing equipment, facilities and coaching in the mini version of the game so that all can play almost from the outset | Tennis rackets, tennis balls, x 2 folding mini tennis nets, throw down lines and spots, training equipment and coaching | 18/03/2004 | Lawn tennis |
| Bramford Tennis CLub | £5,000.00 | Mid Suffolk | rural tennis club uses an award to meet part of costs of one phase of a major re-development of courts with floodlighting to enable many more people, particularly youngsters on a waiting list to be able to enjoy coaching to develop skills and thereafter play the game | Contribution to costs of floodlighting and providing tennis balls for junior coaching | 18/03/2004 | Lawn tennis |
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