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Our Values
Welcoming
Inclusive
Leadership
Teamwork
Sportsmanship
Our Vision
Wiltshire Tennis is passionate and committed to creating inclusive frameworks that support the development of Wiltshire venues, players, coaches, volunteers and county teams.
Our vision is ‘Tennis and Padel Opened Up’. Tennis is for everyone. All ages, all backgrounds, all levels of fitness, all abilities. Anyone can pick up a racket, anyone can be part of the tennis family.
Our Mission
Our vision is ensuring tennis and padel in Wiltshire is inclusive, relevant, accessible, welcoming and inspiring.
Our Strategies
Visibility
Improve communications to reach more tennis and non-tennis people through social media and website.
- Develop and build engagement through the County Social media – Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and the what’s app community groups
- Improve communications and create a vibrant and up to date online presence that promotes and informs people of opportunities and events.
- Make the Wiltshire Tennis website a hub that both informs and shares best practice.
Innovation
Innovate to improve visibility, engagement & participation.
- Create a calendar of opportunities to support the County Tennis Leaders and introduce a Tennis Leaders Reward Scheme.
- Develop and implement a County Padel Action Plan and ensure engagement/onboarding of with new centres
- Engage with key venues to host 8U, 9U and 10U Grade 6 matchplay events over the course of the year to give players the opportunity to play local tournaments across the County.
- Introduce a new ‘Mixed United Cup’ themed event for 14U and 18U juniors to increase competitive opportunities at these age groups.
- Support the expansion of padel and other formats to create more opportunities to play and compete.
Investment
Invest wisely with allocations of funding to plan & new initiatives.
- Continue to drive awareness and promote the coach bursary scheme focussing on support the development of female, ethnically diverse and disabled coaches.
- Introduce a Small Grants Scheme to support venues with funding for activities to drive and diversify participation
- Launch a SEN School Funding Scheme to connect local venues and coaches with schools, providing children with SEN needs opportunities to engage with tennis
- Launch an Officials and Competition Organisers Bursary scheme.
Accessibility
Support growth of disability participation, school competitions and community sites.
- Create a calendar of opportunities to support the County Tennis Leaders and introduce a Tennis Leaders Reward Scheme.
- Develop and implement a County Padel Action Plan and ensure engagement/onboarding of with new centres
- Engage with key venues to host 8U, 9U and 10U Grade 6 matchplay events over the course of the year to give players the opportunity to play local tournaments across the County.
- Introduce a new ‘Mixed United Cup’ themed event for 14U and 18U juniors to increase competitive opportunities at these age groups.
- Support the expansion of padel and other formats to create more opportunities to play and compete.
Engagement
Increase levels of engagement with LTA, venues, coaches, volunteers and players.
- To attract, grow and diversify the tennis and padel workforce (coaches, activators and leaders) to increase opportunities to play to achieve a coach engagement score of 74%.
- Create and deliver an annual Wiltshire Competition Action Plan.
- Engage and collaborate with the Workforce Development Centre (WDC) to grow, diversify and support the coach and officials workforce.
- Host venue forums in the north and the south of the County to engage and support venues.
- Organise Coach Networking Events throughout the year aimed at engaging, developing and inspiring the coach workforce.
- Promote the LTA Tennis Awards scheme to maintain visibility of achievement and recognition of venues, coaches and volunteers. Host an awards evening to present the LTA Awards and the Junior Awards.
- Support operators at park sites and community venues to ensure safeguarding standards are met and to grow and diversify participation and the workforce.
Performance
Effectively organise county teams & training, & support growth of competitions in all age groups and levels.
- Continue to monitor LTA Graded Events to ensure that we have sufficient competitions within Wiltshire that are of the right level and in the right location.
- Continue to offer a comprehensive County Training programme for the 8U – 14U players with County Performance and Development squads. Look to increase training opportunities for the strongest 10U players with a weekly session (2026).
- Create and deliver a 10U County Performance Plan annually and actively engage with the LTA in its review.
- Ensure the selections for County Cup Teams is an open and transparent process & County Cup tennis remains one of the highlights of the year for players.
- Organise a trip abroad to a leading tennis academy for the older Junior Squad players (2026).other formats to create more opportunities to play and compete.
Leadership
Lead Wiltshire Tennis to the highest standards of governance, safeguarding & financial sustainability.
- Continue to communicate LTA advice and share best practice and ensure County events showcase environmental sustainability.
- Continue to secure and manage partnerships and explore ways of attracting new partners to increase Initiative income.
- Ensure County safeguarding polices, and resources are compliant, evident and implemented.
- Ensure that there are clear staff management processes and staff and volunteers are equipped for the role, including effective induction.
- Ensure Wiltshire Tennis Trustees and Staff are engaged and contribute to the work of delivering the objectives of the operating committees.
- Establish sub committees under the LTA Core activity areas to ensure that we are best able to deliver the core activities with excellence. Actively seek to recruit and onboard new volunteers for the committee and in particular, a County Treasurer.
Volunteering Opportunities
We are always looking for keen and motivated volunteers to help us run our popular County programmes. The county offers numerous opportunities for individuals to help with the delivery of tennis activities throughout the year. These include:
- trustee
- coordinating responses to tennis events and competitions
- helping to organise and deliver events
- act as a host to improve the visitor experience
- photograph/video events
- general administrative support
What are the benefits of helping?
Volunteering provides an opportunity to improve on your current skills as well as create new ones, such as leadership, teamwork and organisational skills. You will also meet new people. Being part of a group of volunteers is like being in a close-knit team and social interaction is one of the main reasons why people volunteer in sport.
If you are able to give some of your valuable time, be it an hour a week or for a particular event, to helping in any way please contact us with your personal details. As some of the work would mean working with young people a LTA DBS check will be required.
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