Dear Members of the Park Tennis Club,
Thank you for your continued membership and support, without you and the continued hard work of the committee there would be no club. We are a members only organisation, members are important to us.
We realise everything is not perfect at the club, but we will only get closer to the ideal if everyone participates and comes up with ideas for improvement
We are publishing on the web site, our photos and responsibilities, so you can button hole us down at the club or Email us. Dan has sorted out the digital side and there is only one email address for all of us and the same for the club. He has also sorted out a new box league and a ladder. We are going to open the bar regularly on a Friday so that after tennis members who wish can socialise.
The teams have all been promoted so we need lots of practice to continue to progress.
Our head coach, Carlton, is continuing his physiotherapy to get back to coaching at some point in the future, and Jean is working hard to keep the club coaching programme running. We are very fortunate that two of our best players will be helping Jean with coaching. A big thank you to Patrick Foley and James Saunders. Patrick will be belting the ball at us for three months as well as representing the club before he pursues his career in sport at university. We also hope to see more of his father, Andrew (immediate past chairman), who, with a bit of luck, will be around more this year. We have a full programme of events, tournaments and matches; please support these and your team captains. We are introducing, on Sunday, when the courts are under used, a number of tournaments run by Make, and again we hope that you will enter even though the standard will be quite high. These will be run on a commercial basis and the club will get a share of the profit. The recent trial weekend went well and it was great to see the club full on a Sunday afternoon.
We are also publishing a summary of weekly activities which will include court priorities. Clearly matches will take priority but there should always be courts available for members. Tournaments matches and events will all be published on one site.
I am delighted and relieved to report that Madeleine Davis has recruited a Secretary, Roger Harrison, who is an architect and lives in West Bridgford. He has acted as Secretary to a Housing Association in London so he understands what he is taking on.
Marianne Boerrigter has volunteered to be bar manager taking over from Barrie who has kept the whole thing going for the last few years. Thanks Barrie!!!! and a very big welcome Marianne.
Gudrun Sowerby planted and has maintained the shrubs at the rear of the deck which are already making this area more pleasant as well as helping wildlife in the Park by providing berries and flowers for insects. The Park Residents Association instigated and paid for this scheme. All in all a wonderful team effort, We have agreed to maintain it. Thanks everybody.
Thank you all once again for your support and continued membership.
Bob Cullen
