You will have undoubtedly been following the news of the Government’s pathway out of lock-down and it’s implications for our Club. So, in anticipation of a permitted re-opening on 29th March ’21, we are pleased to tell you:
Outdoor Sport is able to re-start – please see details below. nd Online Court Bookings will re-open the week before on Monday 22 March
Tennis Booking Rule reminder – once the bookings re-open, please only book if you know you can play rather than just holding a speculative booking. As a reminder, the full booking rules will be sent out nearer to the 22nd.
In addition to Tennis, we will be providing Outdoor Table Tennis and Outdoor Badminton with the table and posts & nets on Court 1.
All members that hold a current & up-to-date ‘Indoor’ or ‘Table tennis’ membership will be permitted to keep their memberships suspended but still be able to book & play either Tennis, Outdoor Badminton or Outdoor TT for a £4/h fee.
Tennis: No earlier than 29th March ’21:
Social Play of Singles & Doubles is permitted – Rule of 6 applies.
1:1 Coaching is permitted
Organised Group Activity permitted for Adults & Children (recommended max. 12 adults per court) and max. group size for Juniors is 15.
Outdoor competition is permitted for Adults & Children for both Doubles & Singles
SOCIAL DISTANCING TO BE MAINTAINED BEFORE, DURING & AFTER ALL TENNIS ACTIVITY and SPECTATING IS NOT ALLOWED (EXCEPT ONE PARENT/GARDIAN – ONE PER PLAYER)
From 12th April there is no change to the above conditions for play.
See Guideline Grid from the LTA – follow this link LTA
Junior Easter Tennis Camps – you will receive communication on this shortly.
Table Tennis: No earlier than 29th March ’21: Play on the outdoor table is permitted for bubbles of six adults or two households, or groups of 15 children. With Indoor & TT mships continuing to be suspended, the outdoor table tennis table will be bookable on Tennis Court 1 for a £4/h fee. No earlier than 12th April:
Table tennis indoors to re-start for children under the age of 18 and Disabled People in bubbles of up to 15. It has been confirmed that the exemption for under-18s includes young people who were under 18 on 31st August 2020.
Play for adults indoors will not be permitted, unless with someone from your own household See Table Tennis England’s Guidelines – follow this link Coronavirus update— Table Tennis England The guidelines for during play will be exactly the same as before this lockdown with distancing of tables and the clearing before & after play is required.
Badminton:
No earlier than 29th March ’21: Only Outdoor Badminton permitted for:-
Recreational play with Rule of 6 or two Households
Play Organised (by Coach or Club) permitted with no number restrictions.
1:1 Coaching permitted
No earlier than 12th April ’21:
Adult – Singles & Doubles for household only.
Young people – junior club/organised sessions/coached sessions/recreational activity – all permitted with no limits.
1:1 Coaching – permitted for young people but adults TBC
Competition – local junior tournaments & junior leagues permitted.
Recreational outdoor badminton permitted as max. 6 players or two households.
See Badminton England’s Guidelines link RTP-MAR-2021.pdf (badmintonengland.co.uk)
Outdoor Badminton will be available as a bookable option on Court 1 – your Indoor mship will remain suspended but a £4/h fee will be charged.
Squash & Racketball Sadly we have not had any updates that we can currently pass on to you but when England Squash & Racketball have any news, we’ll be pleased to let you know. I’m sure, however, that the Squash & Racketball coaches will be running some ‘Squash-Fit classes’ on the area round by the Re-bound wall.
Gym: Currently we anticipate re-opening on 12th April under the previous bookable slots.
Bar: We are currently planning to start serving drinks & snacks to members to the Patio from 12th April
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL OF THESE DATES ARE STILL SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENT REVIEW.
How is the Club is dealing with the time credits for Lock-Down? – All current & up to date memberships held by ‘Outdoor’ members have had a further +3m of ‘rounded-up’ credited added to their membership time giving them +6m of extra membership time since the first lock-down on 20/3/20. In a similar way, and as of end March ’21, all Indoor, TT & Gym have also been credited with a total of +8m of time-credit and this will continue to be extended for those who are still unable to use the club). So all renewals and payments have been deferred to your new expiry date. All Social Subscriptions remain suspended & will be credited in full once the Club’s indoor Bar facilities re-open.
As an example: If you had an Outdoor mship that originally ran 1/4/20 – 31/3/21 and if you have made all your subscription payments, your mship time has been extended forward to 30/9/21. No further payments will be collected by direct debit 1st April ’21 to 30th Sept ‘21. Your mship will therefore come up for renewal 1/10/21. You will be notified of this two weeks prior (i.e. around 15th Sept ’21) giving you all the normal details of fees and any instalment payments. At the point of renewal we will be re-setting your mship to your prior, original renewal date and so a 6 month, pro-rata renewal fee will be requested for a mship 1/10/21 to 31/3/22 (N.B. all monthly DD payments and quarterly payments will apply as normal, however, if you pay your sub over 8 instalments this will be reduced to 4 payments making the amount identical to that of you normal payment under your normal 8 instalments due to the 6m renewal fee).
We thank all members for their tremendous support by continuing to pay their subscription instalments, without which the club would be in a very different position today due to the pandemic effect. Many members have expressed their desire to wave this allocated time credits which is so much appreciated. If you are one of those people that wish to do so (and waive these recent 3 month time credit) please kindly reply to this email – thank you.
New Subs Fees ’21 – ’22. There will be no increase to our subscription charges this year.
Two New Floodlit Padel Courts – currently we anticipate work to start mid to end of April with Padel play hopefully due to start June ’21!
Old Photos of the Club? Do you have any pictures of the Club, Courts or Club house from it’s early years as we are proud of the fact that the Club dates back to 1899 but sadly don’t presently have any photos. Do you therefore have a photo of the club tucked away in an old family album that you’d be willing to share with us? … we’d love to see it!
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