# TENNIS FIRST

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1173079
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** May 18, 2017
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1173079


## Contact

- **Address:** Gowran House, 56 Broad Street, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol
- **Postcode:** BS37 6AG
- **Phone:** 01962711491
- **Email:** abbie@tennisfirst.org.uk
- **Website:** http://tennisfirst.org.uk/



## Activities

**Objects:** The objects of the CIO are, in any part of the world: (1) To enable and encourage any person up to the age of twenty three years, or persons up to the age of twenty five years receiving education or vocational training at universities, colleges or similar educational establishments to play the game of tennis and thereby to assist in ensuring that due attention is given to the physical education and development of such persons enabling them to meet their full potential as well as to the development and occupation of their minds, and (2) The provision (or assistance in the provision) of facilities for recreation or other leisure-time occupation for the benefit of the public in the interests of social welfare.

**Activities:** The Charity awards grants to young tennis players who aspire to become professional competitive players.




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training, Amateur Sport, Recreation
- **Who:** Children/young People, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £300604 | £280514 | — | — |
| March 31, 2024 | £384928 | £385862 | — | — |
| March 31, 2023 | £215130 | £353431 | — | — |
| March 31, 2022 | £386736 | £298528 | — | — |
| March 31, 2021 | £192554 | £149680 | — | — |



## Trustees

- Brendan Dermot Gilson — appointed Dec. 5, 2023
- Christopher Courtenay Perrin — appointed Sept. 16, 2020
- Douglas Fordham — appointed Dec. 13, 2018
- James Calder — appointed Sept. 16, 2024
- Johnson Daniel Garner — appointed Jan. 1, 2023
- Lianne Estelle Firth MBE — appointed May 19, 2020
- Mark Laurence — appointed May 21, 2019
- Stephanie Elisabeth Hauser — appointed Feb. 27, 2024
- Suzanne Michelle Hassan — appointed Sept. 16, 2020