Chippenham Tennis Club Newsletter March 2010       

In this special ‘end of membership year’ edition:

 

·        Calling all Members – roll up roll up... time to rejoin for the new 2010 season!

·        Dates for your diary- Tennis Club and Chippenham Sports Club

·        Key contacts reminder

 

Membership 2010-2011

Remember to benefit from the earlybird discount your membership form must arrive before noon 31st March 2010 – you can download a form & instructions from the website : www.chippenhamtennis.org.uk

Dates for your diary:

Wiltshire Vets Tennis Tournament  : Ladies over 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s

Enter as a Pair or Partner wanted … Open to all …To be played over three weekends at the Next Generation Club … Swindon:

 

SATURDAY  13th MARCH  5pm until 8pmTo be played in groups of four …  matches guaranteed … Mini sets/championship tiebreak deciding 3rd set

 

SATURDAY  20th MARCH  5pm until 8pm MAIN EVENT, from top pairs in each group …CONSOLATION EVENT, from 3rd and 4th positions …

 

SATURDAY  27th March  5pm … onwards …Reserved for completing rounds …  FINALS … PRESENTATION

Entries: By Feb 28th to: jane.e.manners@btinternet.com   Tel: 01793 812500

Entry Fees: £15 … per person …  Food and Refreshments are available at the Club

 

Family Doubles Event

LTA supported national doubles competition for Fathers & Sons, Mothers & Daughters,

There are three categories: Open, offspring aged Under 14*, and offspring aged Under 10.*

It’s fun, an adventure, an opportunity to meet new players, and a great way for parent and child to

bond on the field of play.APPLY NOW !

Rules and application forms for 2010 now available onhttp://www.familychampionships.org.uk

*Eligibility criteria: for 14&U, children born in 1996 or later;for 10&U, children born in 2000 or later

 

Anyone for Tennis 2010

Why not get your tennis whites on and hit the courts for Marie Curie Cancer Care’s smash hit tennis event of the summer. Anyone for Tennis 2010 is open to everyone.  You can stage your own tournament in your garden, at your local park or get your local tennis club involved. The type and size of event is up to you, you could organise a – children versus adults, fancy dress themed matches, the possibilities are endless.

Please register your event before June 1, 2010.

 You will then receive your FREE fundraising kit, including Marie Curie sweatbands and a host of inspirational fundraising ideas. Call 08700 340 040, email mailto:tennis@mariecurie.org.uk or visit www.mariecurie.org.uk/tennis.

 

$15,000 Men’s and $10,000 Women’s International Tennis Event 14th – 21st March 2010

Sports Training Village, Bath University,Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY

FREE ENTRY

Tournament information: Julie PiperT: 0208 487 7027E: julie.piper@LTA.org.uk

www.lta .org.uk/news

 

SPORTS RELIEF MILE 2010
 Sunday 21st March Chippenham Sports Club
 http://www.sportrelief.com/the-mile/chippenham-sports-club-mile
 Enter Now!

 

Golf Day ( a fundraising activity for Chippenham Cricket Club)

Wednesday 7th April 2010 @Cirencester Golf Club. Tee times between 9am & noon.

Prizes to be won! Round of Golf &Dinner to follow. ONLY £35!  Call Lee Ward on: 07870980821

Get your friends and family involved – teams of 4 – book early to avoid disappointment !

 

Annual Dragon Boat Race – July 10th 2010

Chippenham Tennis Club has been invited to enter a team in the Charity Boat Race event to be held in Monkton Park on 10 July 2010.

The event is organised by the rotary IF 20 tennis club members ( including friends and relatives ) is interested in taking part e-mail Acting Club Secretary Suzanne MacDonald on : garethandsuzanne@msn.com by 15th March and the CTC Committee will consider making an entry ... extra info below and even more on the rotary website: www.rotary-chippenham-wv.org.uk/dbr/

·         £399 fee to enter the event and a £100 non-refundable deposit secures a boat (cheques made payable to ‘The Rotary Club of Chippenham Wiltshire Vale’ and sent to Lyn Crabtree (address within the site) If you have 20 people per boat then the cost per head is under £20.

·         Each person in the boat has to raise a minimum of £20 for charity.

·         2/3rds of the money raised by each team goes to charity of the team captain’s choice.

·         There are 17 persons in a dragon boat (16 paddlers and 1 drummer) but it’s a good idea to have a squad of 20 to vary the team for each race if you have/want to.

·         Each team has a minimum of 3 races

·         Food will be available.

·         It’s a lot of fun doing it.  I raced in the last one and we had a wonderful time and a lot of laughs.

 

 

Wiltshire Council is listening !

Wiltshire County Council will be conducting a Recreational and Leisure Survey in the near future.  The Vision board thought it would be a valuable exercise to conduct one of our own in advance of the county one so that we could get the focus on the issues in Chippenham and be able to raise these at county level as soon as possible based on the feedback we get.  Attached is the two page survey for you to fill out! You can either email it back to Eilidh Edmiston  : eilidhedmiston@hotmail.com or print it off and post it back to: Survey ChAP PO BOX 3353 Chippenham SN15 9DQ BY end of March if you want to put your views across !

 

 

Key contacts – reminder :

Chairman                                Mike Powell                 01249 652 338

Acting Club Secretary                         Suzanne Macdonald    garethandsuzanne@msn.com                       07736703862