2022-09-30-accounts - Southwold & District Tennis Club

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Trustee’s Report 2022/23

2022 was another great year for the club. Zero Covid restrictions meant no interruption to play and membership has remained above 240 for the third year in a row, which is fantastic.

New Clubhouse

Progress on the plans for the clubhouse has remained constant. We sought tenders from four local contractors and received responses to move discussions forward with two of them.

Coaching Team

The last season has been very solid with all our sessions very well attended. We’ve had a great retention of the numbers of members that we recruited in the aftermath of the pandemic which is very pleasing. These players have been finding the sessions they require and their play level with other like standard members.

The free to members sessions on a Sunday and Wednesday have been well attended and have really added value to the membership fee. These sessions have been brilliantly successful in providing a cohesive and most importantly, an inclusive friendly atmosphere. Junior sessions have been well attended with the club now fielding players competitively at the LTA ball progressions of Red, Orange, Green and Yellow ball. We’ve had great success especially at the age groups of 8-11. The juniors will be one of many focuses of the coaching team going forward, as the club has a knack of also recruiting the parents to play. We now have teen players representing the club in external adult competitions which is really pleasing to see.

For our players going forward the coaching team would like to host some external tournaments which would provide some excellent competition for our members and raise the profile of Southwold Tennis Club amongst the local community and regionally.

School links are growing with coaches now at Reydon, Bramfield, Brampton, Ringsfield and Carlton Colville Primary. Additionally George Caplin is growing a new programme with St. Felix who have plans for better facilities. Our aim is to cement those links with them. Adult session uptake is very healthy but we feel it’s time to fill a couple of gaps in the programme. So we plan to organise a couple of new sessions aimed at complete beginners in the evening and one for players that would like to compete.

Registered Charity No. 1162538

Affiliated to the Lawn Tennis Association, National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London, SW15 5JQ

Competitive Tennis

We had a very successful year in the Lowestoft Summer League after a tricky 2021. We fielded four teams in the Lowestoft League which has three divisions. Our B,C & D team all found themselves in the bottom division while the A team remained in Division 1. The B team won the third division closely followed by the C team. This now puts the B team back into Division 2 for 2023. The ambition for 2023 is for the B team to win Division 2 to move them back up to Division 1 and for the C team to win Division 3 to move them up to Division 2, creating a more even spread of teams throughout the divisions. We also entered teams into the Norwich Winter league.

Membership

Membership prices were kept the same as the previous year .

Membership runs from June to June, and the fees are reduced quarterly. Membership numbers remain stable at 240.

Safeguarding and Welfare

During 2022, there were four only incidences on court which needed to be reported in the accident report book. None needed A&E services and the first aid was ably ministered by the coaches present.

Updated LTA regulations and policies and codes of conduct are to found in the club house

Social and fundraising

This was a successful fundraising year. We organised a Strawberries & Cream tournament, other social tournaments, coffee and cake events and a quiz. Three large Christmas hampers were prepared using donations from members local businesses, funds were raised through the sale of raffle tickets.

Some of our social and fundraising ideas for this year include; tasting menu with entertainment, bingo, another auction, bake off/cook off event, a BBQ, trip to the Wimbledon museum and lunch and another coach trip to a tournament, family events (Halloween and Christmas parties).

Trustees:

Sarah Rollo Mark Websdale Dee Jennings Cath Fox

Steve Robinson – Trustee Administrator

03/04/2023

Registered Charity No. 1162538

Affiliated to the Lawn Tennis Association, National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London, SW15 5JQ

SOUTHWOLD TENNIS CLUB SOUTH'rfVOLD TENNIS CLUB HOTSON ROAD, SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK IP19 8BS REGISTERED CHARITY: 1162538 th INCOME & EXPENDITURE for year ending 30 September 2022 INCOME 202112 202011 Membership Subs Guest Fees Match Fees Camp Fees Court FeeslLight Tokens Fundraising Gross Interest Received 100 Club Sundry Income 16908 / 233/ 104- 487 414- 10207 17345 33 374 5211 127 603 326 801 TOTAL INCOME 28676 24019 EXPENDITURE Rent Water Rates General Rates Premises Insurance Electricity Office Stationery i elephone Accountancy Fees Consultancy and Professional Fees Repairs and Renewals Tennis/Match Coaching Programme 100 Club Prizes Marketing Cleaning Stripe Fees Subscriptions and League Fees Refreshments Tenni5 Biills First.Aid Supplies Giftsli'ouchers Court Equipment Repairs Miscellaneous 2100 294 116 657 281 44 20 2100 261 311 145 50 6634 2180 231 35 79 506 420 43 426 iooo 274 660 93 249 1749 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 14488 7164 SURPLUSIIDEFICIT) OF INCOME 14188 16855