TENNIS ANY ONE

The Tennis Foundation Annual Review How we transformed lives through tennis in 2015 CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 4

WHO WE ARE 5

HOW WE’RE FUNDED 5

WHAT WE DO AND WHY WE DO IT 6

TEACHING LIFE SKILLS ON THE TENNIS COURT 10

MAKING TENNIS OPEN TO ANYONE, WITH ANY DISABILITY 14

TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH TENNIS 18

HELPING THE LTA MAKE TENNIS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE 22

OUR TRUSTEES 24

AFTERWORD 30

2 3 INTRODUCTION HOW WE’RE WHO WE ARE FUNDED I joined the Tennis Foundation in 2011. Every year since then I’ve been immensely proud of what we’ve achieved as the UK’s leading tennis charity. In 2015 the Tennis In 2015, we saw our existing programmes go from We’re the Tennis Foundation, Britain’s Foundation received: strength to strength. Take Beyond the Baseline, leading tennis charity. We know anybody the initiative which puts inspiring tennis role models can play tennis. Anyone from any £6.2 million from the LTA, into schools to work with vulnerable teenagers. background and any community. which went towards funding It’s just one of the innovative ways we’ve found to No matter what their age or ability. our education, disability, coach transform lives through tennis. One of the highlights education, tennis development of the year for me was the NEC Wheelchair We were founded in 1987 by the Lawn Tennis and competitions programmes. Tennis Masters, which we hosted at the Lee Valley Association (LTA). From the outset, our aim Hockey and Tennis Centre. Around 3,200 people was to create a sport which is inclusive and £3 million from the All England Lawn turned out to support the best accessible to all people and communities. Tennis Club (AELTC), which funds players in the world – a record for the event. We began by funding and building a number our education, disability, coach And a further 200,000 tuned in on the BBC Red of Indoor Tennis Centres, which would be education, tennis development Button. It was a truly inspirational occasion. open to anyone, from any background, all year round (The majority are now part of our and competitions programmes. We’ve got a lot to look forward to in 2016. network of Community Indoor Tennis Centres). We’ll be introducing and expanding radical new Our early work also included taking tennis £0.8 million from Sport England programmes, such as Serves, which gives people into schools and providing opportunities via the LTA’s Whole Sport Plan from disadvantaged communities the confidence for disabled people to play the game. funding, which helped provide more to achieve more, both on and off the court. Then, opportunities for disabled people to of course, there’s the Paralympics in Rio, where Since then, the scale and diversity of our play tennis, as well as for students some of the elite players who have come up work has grown massively. Today we run a in higher and further education. through our talent scouting programme will have wide range of initiatives and programmes the chance to compete for gold on the world in education, in low socio-economic £0.3million from UK Sport, which stage. And this year, for the first time ever, there communities and with disabled players. funded our Wheelchair Tennis will be a singles tournament in To help us deliver our vision, we work Performance Programme, supporting Wheelchair Tennis at Wimbledon. closely with a wide range of local, regional, disabled athletes in the run-up to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. UK Sport Thank you to everyone who shares national and international partners. also granted us funds to support our goals and has helped us the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters achieve them. We’re always looking Event and international relations. for more partners to help us take our work forward. We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to get involved. £0.8 million from our dedicated funds, earmarked for our network of 53 Geoff Newton, Tennis Foundation Community Indoor Tennis Centres. Executive Director. 4 5 OUR WORK COVERS THREE MAIN AREAS: WHAT WE DO AND 1 WHY WE DO IT TENNIS ANY SCHOOL, ANY COLLEGE, ANY UNIVERSITY We exist to create opportunities, making it possible for all types of people to pick up a racket and take up the sport. Even Tennis isn’t just a great sport. It teaches those people who never young people important life skills and can dreamt tennis was for them. help them realise their potential. That’s why And especially those who don’t we work to get as many school children normally get the chance to and students playing tennis as we can, follow their dreams. We do it by from the age of two to twenty two, in providing funding, equipment, nurseries right through to universities. training and advice both to individuals and organisations. We provide teachers with free training so they Why do we do it? Because can feel confident about delivering tennis to tennis is a great sport, yes. But their pupils, whether on a full-sized outdoor court it’s so much more than that. or with mini tennis equipment in a school hall. It’s a powerful force in people’s We supply schools with free resources and lives that can help them stretch, equipment packs containing everything grow and flourish in so many they need to put on tennis sessions. unexpected ways. It’s not just about what happens on the We help teachers offer tennis in PE lessons court. Whatever wider potential as part of the sports curriculum. someone has inside them, tennis We also provide resources to introduce tennis can help bring it out. We’ve across the curriculum, for instance using the seen it happen so many times. sport to help in geography or maths. Our new Rio 2016 resource ‘Get Set to Ace It’ is a great example of this. (These resources are focused on Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3.) We help schools, colleges and universities put on extracurricular sessions, including tennis clubs and competitions. We forge links between schools, colleges and universities and local tennis facilities 6 to help bring communities together. 7 ANY BODY, ANY DISABILITY

2 Tennis really is a sport that anyone can play. It can be adapted for any level of ability, as well as for players with different disabilities. We’re 3 committed to providing opportunities for as many disabled people as ANY COMMUNITY, possible to try the game. We’re also here to help talented disabled players ANY BACKGROUND go as far as they can in the sport.

We support venues and coaches who are providing opportunities Tennis has a unique power SUPPORTING THE LTA for disabled people to play tennis. to transform lives. Which is why we are determined to We encourage tennis providers take tennis to people who To promote our charitable aims even further, to make their existing sessions don’t normally get the chance we also fund a number of activites which more inclusive and accessible. to play it, or who think that are managed by the LTA. These include: We fund specific programmes tennis is not for them. Coach education for disabled people, whether they are physically impaired We support a nationwide • Tennis development have learning disabilities or are network of 53 Community Indoor Tennis Centres, • Competitions programmes visually or hearing impaired. providing funding and training • We stage world-class events for the centres to protect them nationwide and run the performance from funding pressures. programme for the country’s most talented disabled tennis We work with key partner players, including for wheelchair organisations, at a national, tennis – one of the sports at the regional and local level, to take Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. tennis into low socio-economic communities, providing mini tennis equipment and pop up courts in places where there aren’t even any tennis courts.

8 9 TEACHING LIFE SKILLS ON THE TENNIS COURT

Louise Hunt started playing wheelchair tennis when she was eight. She soon became one of the Beyond the Baseline is a free programme for country’s top junior players and secondary schools. It uses tennis, and inspirational has gone on to play as an adult tennis players like Louise, to nurture pupils’ at the highest levels of the game, aspirations and put them on the path to achieving both nationally and internationally. them. The programme is a central part of our She competed in the 2012 London Tennis in Education Strategy, launched in March Paralympics and finished 2015 2015. The strategy outlines our approach to ranked number 10 in the world. We’re delivering tennis to nurseries, schools, colleges delighted that despite her busy and universities up to the end of 2018. schedule, she finds time to serve as one of the six mentors in our Beyond the Baseline programme, visiting schools to play tennis with students and to talk to them about some of the highlights – and setbacks – of her career.

Deputy Head Stephen Lowe summed up the impact of Louise’s visit to his school: “Louise told a personal story that was entertaining and humbling at the same time; informative, engaging and motivational. Every member of the audience was mesmerised by what she had to say. Louise’s love of life and of sport were clear to see, her energy and determination are an example to us all. If we all modelled our own lives in just a small way on Louise’s love of life, we would be better people.”

10 11 HERE’S WHAT WE DELIVERED IN 2015: HERE’S WHAT We put in place five new regional Tennis Education WE’VE GOT Officers to coordinate our work at a local level. PLANNED FOR 2016:

We expanded our university In 2016 we’ll be taking our successful Through Beyond the Baseline, we took programmes into even more schools and mentors into 14 schools, reaching 152 pupils. tennis programme with 63 colleges, as well as introducing new initiatives. universities now receiving one The programme was shortlisted in the One example is our ambitious new School ‘Best Secondary Schools Resource – Non of our three levels of support: of Tennis programme. It will radically ICT’ category of the Educational Resources either through University change the way tennis is delivered in Awards 2016, along with our Tennis Satellite Tennis Development Awards, secondary schools across Great Britain by According to a YouGov University Tennis Coordinators focusing its approach on the young people Clubs Guide and Toolkit. It’s the fourth year who are taking part. Although it will be survey, we got 2,754 or our University Tennis further education our resources have been nominated. delivered through a national framework, Performance Programme. it will give schools the flexibility to deliver students playing tennis their own curriculum, designing it around regularly, 3,807 of the specific needs of their pupils and them competing in the wider school community. Schools will tennis competitions be able to learn from and support one another, and there’ll be links with local tennis and 1,782 undertaking venues such as clubs and parks. There’ll tennis training or also be local festivals and competitions qualification; the to add an element of friendly rivalry. same survey told us At the higher education level, we’ll that 96% of further be developing more intensive and tailored packages of support for those education colleges are School Competition tennis universities who can provide the highest satisfied with Tennis continued to grow and thrive, level of return on our investment. Foundation support. with 54,391 children and young people taking part in We have now supported inter-school competitions 20,512 schools (up from (up from 52,927 in 2014). 19,169 in 2014), with free training for teachers, as well as free resources and equipment.

12 13 HELPING OUR ELITE PLAYERS BE THE BEST THEY CAN MAKING TENNIS OPEN TO ANYONE, We host a number of events in the UK to provide opportunities for our disabled players to perform at the highest levels and also to increase the profile of tennis as a sport for disabled people. Players come WITH ANY DISABILITY from all over the world to compete and our own home-grown talent won some notable successes: Tennis Foundation event Achievements Portsmouth Community Indoor Tennis Centre is just one of 172 Tennis Foundation supported community venues around the country that offer tennis sessions British Open Wheelchair Now in its 26th year to disabled people. Coach John Taylor is the Disability Tennis Championships, • One of the world’s most important wheelchair tennis tournaments outside of Grand Slams Coordinator at Portsmouth: “We offer sessions for Nottingham, July visually impaired players, as well as for people with • 26 world top ten ranked players took part Down’s syndrome and head injuries. All our coaches • First Super Series event to come within the qualifying window for Rio 2016 Paralympic Games receive disability awareness training and have learnt to work with wheelchairs and other specialist equipment. • won the women’s singles title, her first at Super Series level We have players who just see it as a great way to make • and triumphed in the men’s doubles friends and have fun. Some of our visually impaired tennis players have played in the National Championships and • one of them was voted female player of the year.” World Deaf Tennis 87 players from 21 countries, watched by over 650 spectators VI tennis player, Dawn Fradgley adds: “It’s great as a Championships, • Our own Esah Hyat picked up the junior Gold Medal visually impaired person to be able to do something Nottingham, July which keeps you active, not just physically, but also keeps • ‘Come and Try’ day led to monthly deaf tennis session at Nottingham Tennis Centre, you alert. You have to be coordinated. And it’s fun!” • with 14 families taking part Tennis truly is an inclusive sport, open to people with all sorts of disabilities. To promote and support disability tennis at every level, we drew up our Disability Tennis Strategy in 2012. We’re now working to make the strategy happen. We have the backing of UK Sport, who are NEC Wheelchair Tennis The top 8 world ranked male and female Wheelchair Tennis players funding our wheelchair performance programme up Masters, London, December and the top 4 world ranked quad players compete by invitation only to 31st March 2017, whilst Sport England are funding • our disability development programme up to the same The pinnacle of the ITF’s Uniqlo Wheelchair Tennis Tour date. Meanwhile, the LTA continue to work with us to • 3,200 people attended including 1,753 from schools, colleges and local communities increase the opportunities for disabled tennis players and to target activities at different disability groups • Our ball crew programme recruited 61 children from local east London schools, to get more disabled people playing the game. • up from 47 in 2014, and we had 77 volunteers from the local community Final matches were broadcast on the BBC Red Button for the first time, • as well as on the BBC website – resulting in 200,000 red button views and 100,000 views via Channel 4 social media 14 15 BUILDING FUTURE SUCCESS

Other Events Success Throughout the year we continued to search for talented new players to nurture and develop. 77 players took part in Ticket2Tokyo, our search for Wheelchair Tennis players capable of going all the , January Jordanne Whiley and Andy Lapthorne both won titles in • their relevant doubles event with Yui Kamiji and David Wagner way to the 2020 Paralympic Games. 30 players were invited to follow-up camps, with 15 making it onto our Wheelchair Tennis Selection Squad for 2016 and beyond. In September, we took nine World Team Cup GB men’s team won the gold medal for the first time in the of our ParalympicsGB Team hopefuls to Brazil to prepare for the in Turkey, May • event’s history and GB women’s team won bronze medal Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Our target for Rio is to come away with two to three medals. This year, we’ll also be sending a team to compete at the European Deaf Championship in Slovenia.

Roland-Garros, June Gordon Reid wins his first Wheelchair Tennis doubles title in the with Sainsbury’s School Games

• We are always keen to discover emerging talent and the Sainsbury’s school games, a national mulit-sport event where the country’s Wimbledon, July Jordanne Whiley wins Wheelchair Tennis doubles title with Japan’s Yui Kamiji most talented athletes of school age compete, is currently providing • that opportunity for us. Wheelchair Tennis was included for the first time in 2015 with 13 athletes representing their nations. US Open, September Jordanne Whiley wins Wheelchair Tennis women’s singles title, her first

• Gordon Reid wins Wheelchair Tennis men’s doubles title with Stephane Houdet • Taking tennis into the community Tennis Europe Wheelchair For the first time Great Britain finished the year equal first with the Netherlands To get more disabled players taking up the sport in 2015, we supported

Tennis rankings • Credit: Mathilde Dusol 44 networks of venues across the country, with a total of 172 venues. We provided funding, equipment and training for this vital grass-roots initiative. So it’s great to see that the numbers of people coming along and giving tennis a go increased significantly from the previous year. INAS Global Games in Six of our learning disability players took part Our highest weekly attendance in 2015 was 3,186 – up from 2,171 in Ecuador, September • The UK’s Fabrice Higgins and Dominic Iannotti take the gold in men’s doubles • 2014. Our monthly high more than doubled, up to 6,186 from 3,082. Building on the success of the inspirational Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign, we have looked at ways of increasing the number of sessions specifically for female players. And of course,our top female players, such as Jordanne Whiley and are amazing role models for disabled girls who want to get more active. Schools are obviously an important part of every community. Working in partnership with fellow tennis charity Give It Your Max, we’re developing a pilot scheme to give more disabled students the chance to play tennis both in school and community settings. 16 17 TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH TENNIS For some people, the barriers preventing them from playing tennis are almost insurmountable. Women from Muslim communities, for example, may feel excluded from mixed sex venues, or because they’re We’ve seen how tennis can give people the confidence not comfortable wearing Western-style sports clothes. to fulfil their potential and succeed in whatever goals they set themselves. Our mission is to take tennis out to all parts of the community. To engage with people who never thought tennis was for them. By taking tennis to disadvantaged communities, we help people transform their lives in a number of key ways:

They feel better emotionally

Rashida Salloo has been playing tennis all her life, but They do better at school and leave with she well understands the issues that black and ethnic improved qualifications minority women face. Rashida has trained as a Tennis Activator through our Serves programme and is now Their employment and career prospects improve leading regular sessions in Yorkshire with women and girls mostly from Indian, Pakistani, African and Caribbean backgrounds. She’s been able to adapt the game so that They are more self confident cultural and religious barriers are overcome, encouraging women to wear what they want. Her outstanding They gain valuable social skills work has earned her the Tennis Foundation Special Recognition Award at the Lycamobile British Ethnic Their health and fitness improves Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSA) in February 2016. Speaking after receiving the award, Rashida said, “It feels amazing and humbling to win the Tennis Foundation Special Recognition Award. It’s not something I would ever have expected off the back of my work in sport. It’s great to be recognised for doing work that benefits the community.”

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Between 2011 and 2014, we ran a series of Community Tennis Pilots at eight locations in the UK. The idea was to use these areas as testing grounds where we could try out new approaches to get hard-to-reach communities playing TURNING TENNIS AROUND the sport. We took tennis into urban centres in places like Birmingham and Leeds. But we also reached out to small rural communities, for instance around King’s Lynn. IN LIVERPOOL This approach allowed us to road-test innovative new activities that we could tailor to the community we were working with. We knew pretty quickly what worked and what didn’t. In 2014, the Liverpool Tennis Centre faced In 2015, building on what we learned, we launched our closure because of high operating costs. Serves programme, supporting 20 community tennis However, Liverpool City Council recognised hubs across the UK. Through them, we provided facilities the vital role tennis has to play in the health such as a pop-up arena tennis court, as well as free and well-being of the city. And so we worked equipment such as kit bags with mini tennis rackets, balls in partnership with them and the LTA to put and net. We also trained 100 tennis activators and provided in place a plan to make the centre viable as resources, mentoring and support. Going forward, we an indoor tennis venue, injecting £225,000 plan to grow the network with 25 new hubs each year, over three years. The plan included: at the same time as developing a robust mentoring and evaluation system. To support these ambitious • Reducing costs and increasing revenue plans, we’ll be actively seeking new funding sources. • Appointing a Tennis Manager and increasing A key part of this programme will be to develop the coaching staff from 3 to 12 young people’s skills off court that will positively effect their life outside of tennis. • Driving a community outreach programme To help us take tennis into the community, we work with and improving links with local schools a number of partners including community organisations such as London Youth, StreetGames, Sporting Equals and Sported. Their specialist skills and on-the-ground • Increasing attendance figures for So far, we’re well on the way to expertise are vital in delivering the social benefits of tennis. weekly programmes achieving our targets. We’ve grown annual revenue by £48,000. In partnership with the LTA, we also support a network • Extending the range of sessions on offer We’ve seen weekly programme of 53 indoor tennis facilities across the country. to include Cardio, Disability, Down’s numbers increase from 78 to They offer a total of 300 indoor and 250 outdoor courts. Syndrome, learning disabilities, Visually 511. We have the staff in place to And they’re open to anyone who wants to play. Impaired and Wheelchair Tennis deliver a high standard of tennis provision, with clearly defined professional development. We • Delivering high quality competitions haven’t just kept the Centre open, for schools and local people we’ve revitalised tennis in Liverpool. 20 21 HELPING THE LTA MAKE Competitions Competitions bring everyone together. Local TENNIS AVAILABLE communities get behind their teams. Individuals get to play against their peers. Funded by us, the LTA runs an inclusive competition programme which provides TO EVERYONE opportunities all year round for both adults and juniors. The focus is on providing an appropriate setting where everyone is welcome to join in and have fun. Tennis Development Coaching The role of the LTA participation team, which we fund, is Good coaching is at the heart of creating a 3,042 teams and 13,540 players took part to encourage – and enable – more people to play tennis great tennis experience for all kinds of players, in Team Tennis Schools, the LTA’s programme more often. The team takes a joined-up approach across at all levels of the game, from enthusiastic of three nationally organised competitions communities, clubs, schools and universities. For example, beginners to serious competitors. That’s why they work with local authorities to create more opportunities we fund the LTA’s work training coaches and Over 2,400 players took part in tournaments for people to play in parks. And they help local tennis clubs supporting coaching excellence across the UK. in the LTA’s Winter Regional Tour grow, develop and flourish through programmes such as Great British Tennis Weekend, Tennis Tuesdays and Mini Tennis. Over 1,000 coaches attended In 2015: one of 23 LTA coaching forums 186,300 people played tennis at least once a week, up 16% from 2014* 3,406 coaches received LTA qualifications 730,800 people played tennis once a month, up 5% from 2014* Including 2,121 people who took the LTA Level 1 award to Our three Great British Tennis Weekends delivered qualify as tennis coaches over 54,000 sessions across around 1,000 venues, leading to a 14% upturn in tennis club membership and 23% more players signing up to programmes

23% of players taking part in Tennis Tuesdays, a programme aimed at women, attended six or more sessions, up from 7% the year before

*Active people survey 9, October 2014 - September 2015, conducted by Sport England.

22 23 OUR TRUSTEES Jonathan Lane OBE (Chairman) Jonathan is Chairman of Shaftesbury PLC having Sir Geoffrey Cass (President) been its co-founder and A past President of the LTA Chief Executive between Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson DBE (from 1997-99) and currently 1986 and 2011. He is also One of Britain’s greatest athletes an LTA Councillor, Sir Geoffrey Chairman of Easy Hotel PLC winning 16 Paralympic medals, was Chairman of the British and a Council member of Tanni still plays an active role in the Tennis Foundation from the Royal Theatrical Support administration of sport. As well as 2003 until 2007, becoming Trust. His other voluntary sitting in the House of Lords, she is President of the re-launched roles include being Chairman the Vice-President of the All Party Tennis Foundation in 2008. of the University of Oxford’s Parliamentary Group for Women’s A Wimbledon Championships Oriel College Property Panel Baroness Margaret Ford Sport and Fitness and a member of player in 1954/55/56/59, and and he is a Fellow of the Baroness Ford is the Chairman the Board of the London Marathon. British Veterans’ Singles Champion Royal Institution of Chartered of STV Group Plc and a Non- She also sits on the board of at Wimbledon in 1978, Sir Geoffrey Surveyors. Jonathan was Executive Director of Grainger Plc, Transport for London, the London was a member of the Wimbledon previously Deputy Chairman SEGRO Plc and Taylor Wimpey Plc. Legacy Development Corporation Championships Management of the Theatre’s Trust and From 2009-12, she chaired the and is Chair of UK Active. Committee for 12 years and The Crafts Council, as well Olympic Park Legacy Company, Chairman of the Championships as a Governor of the Royal which successfully master planned Finance Committee. Shakespeare Company. the Olympic Park post-Games. Sir Geoffrey is also President of She is an Honorary Professor of Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Real Estate at Glasgow University Club and Emeritus Chairman of and an Honorary Member of The Royal Shakespeare Company. the Royal Institute of Chartered He is Chairman of the Royal Surveyors. In 2006 Margaret Theatrical Support Trust. An was elevated to the Peerage as Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Martin Corrie Baroness Ford of Cunninghame. Oxford, he also has a French Martin has been a member of the knighthood (Chevalier de l’Ordre LTA Council since 2003, representing des Arts et des Lettres 1982.) Hertfordshire. He was elected Deputy President of the LTA in 2013, having previously been Chairman of the Tennis Performance Committee until the end of 2012. Martin was elected Funke Awoderu to the Board of Tennis Europe in 2014 Barry Horne Funke is currently the strategic and currently serves as Honorary Barry is currently the Chief Executive of lead for The Football Association Treasurer. In 2015 he was elected to the English Federation of Disability Sport, on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. the Board of the ITF where he serves having been appointed in May 2010. Funke previously held national roles as Chairman of the Wheelchair Tennis Barry is an LTA Councillor. He has worked in for the LTA managing the network Committee and Technical Commission. a range of roles including as Chief Executive of City Tennis Clubs primarily in of the East Midlands Regional Assembly and urban deprived areas in England. Regional Local Government Association. Funke is an LTA Councillor. 24 25

Ian Hewitt Ian Hewitt was a partner in a leading international firm of lawyers for more than 25 years. He sits on the Committee of Management of the Wimbledon Championships. He is a member of the All England Lawn Tennis Club and is chairman of the Club’s Wimbledon Foundation.

Karen Keohane Karen has over 25 years experience working in sports Matt Stocks participation and is the Director of the Doorstep Sport Matt is a Development Manager Club Programme for the StreetGames UK charity. Prior to for the Greater Manchester this Karen held roles at Sport England and she set up and Sports Partnership. He has been led the Active Women Consortium which ran the award involved in tennis for over 25 years winning ‘Us Girls’ programme. Karen is an LTA Councillor.. and experienced all levels of the game having been a full-time player, coach, administrator and Baroness Jowell, DBE volunteer. Matt is an LTA Councillor. Tessa was an MP from 1992 Cynthia Muller – Honorary Treasurer until 2015 and served as a Cynthia joined the Tennis Foundation Board of Trustees Minister and then as a Member in 2015. With 30 years of financial markets experience of the Cabinet throughout the at JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, she is a London 1997-2010 Labour Government. based Investment Advisor to Foundations, Family Offices and Pension funds based primarily in the As Secretary of State at the Nick Fuller MBE United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Greece Department for Culture, Media Nick Fuller MBE is Executive Chairman of and the Middle East. She is also a Partner and Head and Sport, Tessa is credited with EdComs, an award-winning educational of the Wealth Division at Cheyne Capital, London. bringing the Government behind research, publishing and communications Jeff Hunter London’s bid for the Olympic and company. Between 2007 and 2012, Nick Jeff is Managing Director of Premier Paralympic Games. She became was seconded from EdComs to work as Tennis and has been involved in tennis all Olympics Minister in 2005. In 2012 the Head of Education for the London his life, representing GB in every junior age Tessa was made a Dame for her 2012 Organising Committee for the group and ranking inside the top 200 ATP political and charitable services. Olympic and Paralympic Games. Nick doubles players. Jeff previously worked In 2015, Tessa was raised to the is an Expert Advisor on education for in management consultancy and event peerage as Baroness Jowell. the IOC, Chair of the IPC’s Education operations. He is an LTA Councillor, Chairman Board, and a Governor of Middlesex of Oxford University LTC and a member University. He is a Fellow of the Royal of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. 26 27 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

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Our achievements and exciting initiatives emanate from the expertise and determination of our skilled The Tennis Foundation and closely-knit executive team ably led by Geoff Newton and his Deputy, Joanna Farquharson. We The National Tennis Centre are also fortunate to be supported by Trustees who 100 Priory Lane have exceptional and relevant expertise, In particular Roehampton I’d like to welcome Cynthia Muller, who brings with London her a wealth of experience in the finance sector. I’ve SW15 5JQ no doubt she’ll help us enormously in developing our fundraising strategy. Also joining us in 2015 was T: 0845 872 0522 Nick Fuller MBE, who has already started to provide E: [email protected] invaluable input around our education programme. W: tennisfoundation.org.uk

We continue to be successful and have the ability to take the long view in our challenging work across education, helping those with a wide range of disability Keep up-to-date with as well as people in low socio-economic communities. us via social media: This is thanks in no small way to long-term support especially from our principal funding partners, the Twitter: @TennisFndation LTA, AELTC, UK Sport, Sport England and in addition the growing number of fellow charities with whom we collaborate on specific projects. Facebook: TennisFoundation1 We look forward to extending these ties as we seek to bring tennis to anybody and everyone. Instagram: Tennis_Foundation Jonathan Lane OBE Chairman

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