ANNUAL REPORT 2010 ANNUAL REPORT 2010 TENNIS SCOTLAND GOVERNANCE Honorary President Dennis D Carmichael OBE CONTENTS CEO WELCOME 4 TENNIS SCOTLAND BOARD Chair and Director of Performance TENNIS OPERATIONS 5 Gordon Baker President MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS 6 Andree Hawke Vice-President PERFORMANCE 7 Christine Windmill Director of Corporate Governance THE YEAR IN PHOTOS 8 Ken Revie Director of Marketing & Communications COACH EDUCATION & CHILD PROTECTION 10 Dave Macdermid Director of Tennis Operations FINANCE 11 Pat Reid Chief Executive Officer PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT 12 David Marshall Company Secretary (in attendance) BALANCE SHEET 13 Gordon Robertson sportscotland representative (in attendance) PARTNERS 14 Megan Griffiths LTA representative (in attendance) Caroline Blincoe TENNIS SCOTLAND COUNCIL Tennis Ayrshire East of Scotland LTA Tennis Tayside Fiona Page Alistair Armstrong Ian Conway Tennis Borders Jacqui Duncan Douglas Gibson Chris Smith Ian Hastie Tennis West of Scotland Tennis Central Scotland Highlands District LTA Michael Bews Alan Christie Lucy Grant Christine Lockhart Tennis Dumfries & Galloway North East of Scotland LTA David Mazzucco Mary Park Muriel Adams Jim Reid Clive Thomson Tennis Scotland, 177 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH14 1BZ Tel: 0131 444 1984 Fax: 0131 444 1973 [email protected] www.tennisscotland.org Social Media: www.twitter.com/tennisscotland www.facebook.com/tennisscotland Photo credits - Tennis Scotland would like to thank the following people for their photography: Adidas, Mhairi Brown, Commonwealth Games Scotland, Rob Eyton- Jones, Adam Fradgley, Getty Images, Peter Gordon, Lucy Grant, Andrew Haw, James Jordan, the Lawn Tennis Association, Rebecca Lee, Steve Lindridge, Alexis Manson, John Purcell, Steve Reid, Karen Ross, Scottish Government, Art Seitz, Roy Smiljanic, Special Olympics GB, John Stevenson, the Sun, the Tennis Foundation, John Tisbury, Neil Werninck & Valerie Willoughby. 3 TENNIS SCOTLAND ANNUAL REPORT 2010 CEO WELCOME Once again our sport in this country has enjoyed an There has also been significant activity at grass roots extremely productive twelve months in all areas of our level with increases across the country in club/school operation and it is very encouraging that we continue to links and teacher training leading to substantial progress raise the bar in participation, competition, membership while the ‘cash from crime’ initiative which will be and encouraging children into the game. developed through the year ahead, will unquestionably result in further increased participation among young Having been set challenging targets through our Key people. Performance Indicators (KPI’s), the Tennis Scotland field team has responded with gusto. The number of regularly There is no doubt the year ahead, while again being competing juniors is up 28% to 2,332, British Tennis extremely challenging in terms of sourcing new Membership, at 18,045, is ahead of target, membership commercial opportunities, will also provide significant at affiliated/registered places to play stands at over opportunities to enable the sport to develop further at 33,646, registered coaches number 50 and we have all levels and, provided we all work as one – and with the 51 Clubmark clubs with a further 43 currently working same vision - we will make a difference. towards accreditation. David Marshall Our players continue to develop and thrive on the World, European and domestic stages, thanks in no small way to the fantastic efforts of our coaches, working extremely hard in a planned and integrated way to ensure our players are afforded every opportunity to OPERATIONAL progress positively along the performance pathway. PRIORITIES FOR 2011 While Andy Murray still leads the way in terms of the world stage, the breaking into the top 50 during 2010 Improving places to play tennis by Elena Baltacha in singles and Colin Fleming in • Raising the awareness of tennis doubles demonstrated how, year on year, the overall • Improving access to places to play tennis standard in our country is rising. At junior level, Scotland • Increasing the opportunities to get involved had a record representation of 28 in the National Championships and, as detailed later in this report, their Improving the support to coaches and the tennis workforce fantastic success ably demonstrates they were not just • Training and equipping coaches to deliver there to make up the numbers! quality tennis programmes • Training and equipping competition organisers to improve the October provided a further boost for the country quality and consistency of competition delivery when Colin Fleming and Jocelyn Rae, having never • Training and equipping club volunteers and managers to played together previously, defied the odds as well as improve their places to play some very experienced opponents, to lift gold at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. While tennis is not one Increasing and improving junior and adult competition of the allotted sports for Glasgow in four years time, as a • To continue to develop the junior competition structure governing body we are continuing to do everything we • To simplify, support and grow adult tennis possibly can to change that situation. TENNIS SCOTLAND ANNUAL REPORT 2010 4 TENNIS OPERATIONS This year has been significant for a number of reasons, The HHEAPS (Hygiene, Healthy Eating and Activity in not least that it has been the first twelve month period Primary Schools) initiative, launched over two years ago in which we have enjoyed the benefits of having the and part funded by the Food Standards Agency, has FULL development team in place with coverage across now involved more than 2,000 children with an ongoing the country. programme involving a further 2,000 pupils. The fact that our Clubmark target was met (51) means In terms of competitions, 2010 was another busy our focus going forward will be to support these and successful year and included the hosting of clubs in ensuring the quality is in place in addition three AEGON Pro Series events and an AEGON Junior to encouraging further clubs to become involved. A International. While the Scottish Cup is currently without number of new ‘Places to Play’ have been registered a sponsor, the event was as keenly fought as ever with across the country this year and with the switch to Giffnock and David Lloyd Newhaven prevailing in the registration and the reinvestment of over £100,000 back men’s and ladies’ events respectively. Full results of all into the clubs, that trend will surely continue. Tennis Scotland’s competitions for 2010 can be found on the website. Regularly competing juniors remains one of the key targets with 2,332 players having played six or more matches over the past twelve months. In partnership with the Tennis Foundation, a substantial amount of work continues to be undertaken in our schools, with a summary of the activity as follows – 39 Primary Teacher Training Courses held, attended by 716 participants; 3 Secondary Teacher Training Courses held, attended by 31 participants; 576 AEGON Tennis Equipment packs supplied with a retail value of £331,200; 1 Tennis Roadshow with 40 attendees. Club Forums continue to be an extremely useful method of communicating directly with our members and a great vehicle for the sharing of ideas and good practice and in 2010, events were held in Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and Stirling. April witnessed the launch of the latest phase of the central government funded Cashback for Communities Scheme, funded through proceeds of crime and reinvested in sport, with tennis now included. The two year programme will see more than 3,000 hours of tennis delivered locally in disadvantaged areas of the country with the opportunity for those taking part to progress to a local Place to Play. 5 TENNIS SCOTLAND ANNUAL REPORT 2010 MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS The continued on court success of our players of all The lifting of the Commonwealth Games Gold by Colin ages, as detailed elsewhere in this report, serves to make Fleming and Jocelyn Rae in Delhi in October was a the raising of the tennis profile in Scotland ever easier further boost to the profile and one which kept tennis to and consequently better placed to meet the challenges the forefront at a traditionally quiet time. that will come our way when Andy Murray finally lifts that first Slam. While the performance end of the sport is From a staffing perspective, in his first full year in naturally the easier one in terms of generating interest, the role, Lee Boucher has been hugely influential in much of the focus has rightly been championing the ensuring the smooth running of both the Marketing and many successful grassroots initiatives that will facilitate Communications and Admin functions of the business. future increases in participation. His efforts have been rewarded with promotion to the newly enhanced position of Business Development The year got off to a hectic start with Andy reaching Manager. Among Lee’s achievements are the continued the Australian Open final resulting in the now familiar development of the official website, which is now invasion of Dunblane by a myriad of broadcasters and complemented by Facebook and Twitter social media journalists. Once again, a co-ordinated and planned sites. approach elicited substantial coverage for tennis thanks to the team effort of everyone involved and this We continue to work closely with our current approach was repeated for Wimbledon when, among sponsors while at the same time look to develop new the achievements, was the presence of the Tennis partnerships in a marketplace that remains extremely Scotland logo on CNN, adorning the CEO’s polo shirt challenging. However, it is our unequivocal belief that when being interviewed for a feature on Andy. for a progressive organisation looking to enhance its reputation and utilising sport as a vehicle to achieve that, there is no more obvious route than our great sport! TENNIS SCOTLAND ANNUAL REPORT 2010 6 PERFORMANCE Scottish players once again dominate the top of the British Cup teams.