Tennis for Free In the Parks Membership Details & Application Form Welcome to The Parklangley Club Founded in 1911, The Parklangley Club Our facilities include: is a busy and vibrant community club offering magnificent facilities to its members • Magnificent clubhouse and guests alike. • 4 court international standard badminton hall The Club has undergone a £4 million • 4 squash courts on site, including 3 development, part funded by the Lawn exhibition courts; 2 off site, 400m away Tennis Association and Sports • 16 tennis courts on site (2 indoor; 4 floodlit through a Lottery grant, and now boasts clay; 3 floodlit artificial; 6 grass & 1 tarmac); the best tennis, badminton and squash 3 floodlit tarmac courts 400m away facilities in the South East of England. • Gym – Technogym and Its superb social amenities are also unrivalled Life Fitness equipment by any members’ club in the area. • Dance studio • Sports injuries clinic The Club is non-profit making and is run • Sauna and steam room by its members, for its members. • Crèche facility • Sports shop We have over 1700 members in total and, • Conference rooms with over 500 of these being junior members, • Meeting rooms we can genuinely say that we are focused • Bars, function room, restaurant and on the needs of the family, as well as the social areas serving excellent food individual. The social aspect of the Club is very important to many of our members and you Beginners welcome – adults or children can always be sure of a very warm welcome. Coaching in all sports and all ages during school term time, starting with mini-tots at 3 years old up to 80+. Coaching is available to members and non-members.

Holiday activities for children

Function room and halls available for: Wedding receptions Functions and parties for both adults & children

If you have not yet seen the Club for yourself, then please telephone us and we will be delighted to meet with you and show you around. Tennis for Free Welcome to The Parklangley Club in the Parks

The Tennis For Free scheme is run by The up and ‘mix and match’ with other Tennis For Parklangley Club and is part of our community Free members, all free of charge. Please note work. We co-ordinate all the bookings, coaching you must be over 18 to attend. and all other activities. Whether you are a beginner or an established player, this scheme Each summer we run a free adults’ is here to encourage you and your family to tournament in singles and doubles and we play tennis. The scheme represents outstanding do encourage members to enter. You’ll be value for money so do take advantage. emailed details at the appropriate time.

By completing an application form you will British Tennis Membership become a Tennis For Free member of the parks in and be able to book and play If you sign up for Tennis For Free we will tennis at the parks listed below. Each family or make your family British Tennis Members household needs to pay a one-off registration or if you are already British Tennis Members, fee of £25. Once you have registered with we will add the parks’ sites as one of your us, you will be sent a welcome package and ‘Places to Play’. This is a membership scheme a ‘fob’ to gain access to the courts. After that run by the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). you will be able to book and play tennis 7 The membership is free if you belong to days a week, 365 days a year, free of charge, Tennis For Free. By being a British Tennis until the end of August 2015. Member you will receive emails from the LTA telling you about various events, and In the past years £400,000 has been spent you can also access the ‘members’ area of on the parks’ courts so that they are in good the LTA website. With this membership you condition. The courts will continue to be will also be eligible to enter the Wimbledon maintained to a high standard. ticket ballot we hold each year for members of Tennis For Free. If you would like more We have a court entry system to ensure that details of the British Tennis Membership only Tennis For Free members have access scheme please go to www.lta.org.uk/btmtc and that, where possible, we can ensure that only tennis is played on the courts. Croydon Road Recreation Ground, In addition to offering you free tennis courts 8 tarmac tennis and 4 mini we are also offering you and your family the red courts • Kelsey Park, Beckenham 2 opportunity to have three coaching lessons tarmac tennis courts • Kings Hall Road 4 (worth £22 per person) free of charge. tarmac courts (opening May 2014) with own car park • Willett Recreation We also hold adult club sessions at Willett Ground, 6 tarmac tennis Recreation Ground and Croydon Road courts, 2 of which have floodlights Recreation Ground where you can turn QUESTIONS ANSWERED Why do we have to pay a £25 registration fee? This is to pay towards the court entry How do we become a parks member? system, the fob, the initial administration, Complete the application form attached and a contribution to the court or downloaded from our website (which maintenance. can be filled in on-screen), and return to Once we have joined, do we still pay us by email or post. court fees? You do not pay a court fee – How do I book a court? Once you courts are free. If you wish to play under are registered, go to our website at floodlights at Willett Recreation Ground, www.theparklangleyclub.co.uk and a court is £3.50 for half an hour and you follow the ‘book a court’ link under need to register as a floodlit user. To do ‘member resources’ on the home page. this please contact The Parklangley Club It is also possible to phone the Club but and we will send you further details. we request that you use web booking (Price correct as of 1st April 2012.) system, if possible, as we are not staffed How do I cancel a court? You cancel on our to receive lots of calls, especially on website or, if you booked by phone, please Sundays and during the evenings. phone The Parklangley Club. Even if you Will I receive a fob for each person in cannot play, say half an hour before, please the household? No. You only have one cancel, so other people can book. fob per household. If you would like more, What happens if the fob is lost or does not then you must pay an additional £12 for work? The Parklangley Club will not accept each one. any responsibility for fobs as we have no idea Who can book courts? Anybody who how they have been treated. All fobs are has become a Tennis For Free member of tested before they are sent out. If for any the parks. reason you require a replacement fob, you Is the £25 an annual fee? No, it is a one off will need to pay £12. An additional fob may fee to register and this takes you up to be purchased for £12 – please specify when August 2015. Then an additional fee would purchasing that it is an additional fob and be payable to cover the next three years. not a replacement since we will cancel the original fob when a replacement is issued. Please complete this form and return it to The Parklangley Do we have just one password for the Club, 44a Wickham Way, Beckenham, , BR3 3AF household? To make things easier we are issuing just one password per household, but we add the first unique letter of each member of your family’s forename at the Lead Name end of the password, so each member you list may book courts in their own name. Title Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms (please circle) How do I get free coaching? Free coaching First Name is only available to those who are not on Surname any coaching programme organised by Date of Birth / / The Parklangley Club. We operate the free Address sessions three times a year and will contact you when they are about to start. Our coaching programme only runs during school term time. Postcode Where and when is the coaching held? Tel Home We coach adults and children aged 8+ on Tel Work seven sites, under 8s at four sites, and 3 and 4 year olds, who are not yet at school, on one Tel Mobile site. We coach 7 days a week. If you enjoy Email (one per household, please print address clearly) the coaching you can continue on our extensive coaching programme and you Password for Internet Bookings will be placed in a group which is suited to your age, ability, and which is at a Other Family Details convenient time for you. Further coaching Title Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms needs to be paid for. First Name How do I join a club session? If you wish to meet other people and play social tennis in Surname a ‘mix and match’ group, why not join our Date of Birth / / organised club sessions? Please note that 1st Child First Name M / F club sessions are not suited to complete beginners: you should be able to serve and Surname return a ball. Nor are they open to under Date of Birth / / 18s. Please contact the Club if you are 2nd Child First Name M / F interested in these sessions. What happens with the information on the Surname form? We put your details on our computer Date of Birth / / and this allows you to book courts. We have 3rd Child First Name M / F a computerised booking system which Surname enables us to track all bookings. You will also receive regular newsletters informing you of Date of Birth / / what is going on and send you emails 4th Child First Name M / F detailing any particular offers we have for Surname the Tennis For Free members. We do not sell or give our database to anyone. Date of Birth / / I wish to pay £25 registration fee by credit/debit card GENERAL INFORMATION

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Start Date / / Croydon Road Recreation Ground Expiry Date / / Saturday (4 courts) 10.00 -12.00 Issue Number (if relevant) Wednesday (2 courts) Summer Term 18.30 -20.30 Name on Card Willett Recreation Ground Sunday (4 courts) 10.00 -12.00 or Wednesday (2 courts) 10.00 -12.00 I enclose a cheque for £25 Wednesday (2 courts) 18.00 -20.30 (payable to ‘The Parklangley Club’) or bromley tennis for free leagues I am paying £25 at the till (staff to attach copy of receipt) Players of all standards are invited to join Please note all correspondence will be sent to the lead this friendly league at all three locations. name overleaf. These leagues are exclusive to Tennis For I accept (as lead name), on behalf of myself and other Free members, and are run independently family members, the terms and conditions as outlined of The Parklangley Club. There is a small in the Tennis for Free booklet, and I also accept that, by entry fee for these leagues, £20 cash signing this form we will automatically be signed up as prizes and free tennis balls when you play. British Tennis Members for free. Matches are are played at times that suit Note – if you have already registered as British Tennis the individual. For more details please go Members, you hereby give your consent for us to add to www.localtennisleagues.com/bromley the parks tennis to your ‘Place to Play’. or email [email protected] Signature Name (must be same as lead name overleaf) Tennis for Free Summer Tournament Each year we hold a free tournament Date / / exclusively for Tennis for Free adult members (over 18s). The tournament starts in May and finals day is held in July. We have five categories in this event: men’s singles; ladies’ singles; men’s doubles; ladies’ doubles and mixed doubles. Winners are presented with a cup, and trophies are presented for all competing in the finals. This event has grown each year and is a great way of playing competitively, and enjoying ‘playing the sport’. You’ll be emailed full details at the appropriate time. TERMS & CONDITIONS a mis-booking by The Parklangley Club. We can only apologise for any 1 The fob for the gate access must not be misunderstandings or mistakes. passed on to other households. 12 The parks courts will remain free until 2 Only tennis may be played on the courts. 31st August 2015. Football or any other activity is forbidden. 13 You are expected to conduct yourselves 3 Courts may be booked up to two weeks so that others are not offended by your in advance. behaviour, language or other activities. 4 You may only play a maximum of two 14 Our staff have the right to ask any person hours per family per day, at weekends mis-using, or behaving anti-socially on between 9am and 6pm and 4pm to the courts to leave. Our staff have the close weekdays. right to work without abuse and members 5 The 10 minute rule: If a member booking must comply with all instructions. a court fails to show during the first 10 15 The Parklangley Club reserves the right minutes of the booking then another to cancel any membership of any person member may claim that court on site. who does not abide by the T&Cs. This will Although the court will not be booked in be carried out by cancellation of the fob. the user’s name, the original booker will No refund will be given. not be able to displace the new user. This 16 The Parklangley Club reserves the right means that if all the courts are booked, to alter the rules, in the interest of its then someone can turn up at the courts members, at any time. with a list of the changeovers and see if a court becomes vacant and unused for the first 10 minutes. Function Room Hire 6 Courts not required must be cancelled The Ivy Suite – we reserve the right to suspend members from booking if you do not The Parklangley Club has its own show (weather excepted). function room available for adult birthday 7 There will be a £12 charge for a new fob parties, anniversaries, wedding receptions, if needed for any reason, including loss dinner dances etc. We do not hold 18th and or if it ceases to work. There is no 21st birthday parties. All catering is provided guarantee on the fobs. by the Club. The room has its own bar, 8 Floodlights are available only at Willett balcony and toilet facilities. Recreation Ground. You must abide by all Children’s parties are extremely popular rules governing the access to the courts at the Club and we run and organise a during the evening. huge number of these each year. We offer 9 Suitable clothing, including tops, must a very flexible package and should be able be worn at all times. to cater for all your needs. 10 Only appropriate court shoes should be worn. Shoes should be clean of mud and have no spikes or studs. 11 If, for any reason, two people think they have booked the same court, please For more information visit phone the Club. The person whose name www.theparklangleyclub.co.uk is on the computer will be the person or contact the Club on 020 8658 9028 allowed to play, even if the fault lies with 44a Wickham Way, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3AF Tel 020 8658 9028 Email [email protected] www.theparklangleyclub.co.uk