HELPING MORE PEOPLE...
PLAY MORE TENNIS

We were delighted at Lancaster Tennis Club to have Danny and Luke visit our Club under the Bright Ideas for Tennis charity scheme. It's a great way to raise money for the Club but more importantly the sessions they ran were great fun, instructive and hugely enjoyable. All our juniors and adults gained enthusiasm and new insights and also appreciated the chance to watch a competitive exhibition match with top quality players. Some of our juniors said it was their best ever afternoon of tennis! We hope they'll come back again - they'll always be very welcome.

We're privileged to take part in the Bright Ideas for Tennis initiative. It's an amazing opportunity to enable our members to improve their game and help more people to participate in the sport we love. We're very excited about our next event and hope to incorporate some exhibition doubles, as we did at the first event and get a good crowd in to support our efforts to raise more funds for reaching out to new starters in the game.

Feedback was instant and extremely positive. Everyone told us what a fantastic day they had, how much they learned from the clinics, what a great atmosphere Danny and Chris created (not to mention that they seemed to learn everyone’s name in an instant) and how involved everyone felt. It was such a great day that people have been talking about it weeks after the event, sharing photos and videos, and asking ‘when can we do it again’!

Mega thanks to Danny and Luke for a brilliant, sparkling and uniquely fun tennis fundraiser! The legacy these two delightful gentlemen left behind will enable Stocksbridge Tennis Club to provide additional coaching resource to reach out to even more youngsters in our community (a much needed boost to our current voluntary over-stretched coaching limitations). In addition some of the funds raised will go towards the long term goal of lighting to enable our community to play tennis play for longer all year round. It is a truly wonderful thing they have done for our local community!

What this opportunity has done is show that even the smallest of clubs can create a great day and at times where money is tight there is always a way to raise funds. It has shown that with teamwork and commitment then anything is possible. Thanks to Bright Ideas for Tennis for giving us the opportunity to make this happen

Chris and Andrew really got everyone enthused and all who attended said how much they had gained from the sessions and how they’d enjoyed playing with other members of the club that they wouldn’t ordinarily have met. We are all now eagerly anticipating our next Tennis Circus day in May.

Great fun was had by all who came and the players really benefited! We look forward to arranging another day with Danny and the team in 2014/2015.

North Dulwich Lawn Tennis Club owes Bright Ideas for Tennis, and particularly Danny Sapsford and Andrew Richardson a huge thank you for making the day possible. Danny's enthusiasm and passion for tennis is infectious and meant that we all thoroughly enjoyed the day. Even organising the day was a pleasure. To see how successful the day was made all the effort worthwhile; especially as we only had roughly six weeks to organise the day, but Danny's guidance and assistance made it a breeze.
Many thanks must also go to all who helped on the day from the club's coaches to all of the members who gave up their time to be a part of the best day in the club's history.

At a time when many smaller Clubs are possibly struggling to attract and retain membership numbers, a day such as the one delivered by Bright Ideas for Tennis, together with the coaching legacy that will follow is be a great way to enhance the profile of the club(s) both internally and externally and hopefully ensure the long term health of our clubs. It is also a great way of enthusing existing members to get out on court and play more frequently.
One of our big aims off the back of this day is to build and develop more opportunities for families to get out on court and play, to get those parents who may only pick up a racket once or twice a year on court with their children and enthuse them. We will also further develop our links with the local schools and provide additional coaching opportunities for our existing and prospective new members. I would like to extend my thanks to Danny and his team for giving us this great opportunity and I wish him well for all his future endeavours with Bright Ideas for Tennis.

The Bright Ideas for Tennis day at the YMCA Hawker Centre was an inspirational success. With bags of energy and enthusiasm from Danny Sapsford and Chris Eaton. A great boost and all round fun day for all participants and spectators at the tennis centre.

The main goal was to increase the profile of tennis in the local area and raise some money to provide free tennis initiatives in the community, safe to say we achieved both goals, raising an incredible £1074, whilst also enjoying a great day.

We had the best and busiest club event in living memory yesterday thanks to Danny Sapsford and Luke Milligan. The feedback has also been amazing with really positive emails and texts. David Alexander, who is 99 years old, said that he has never seen so many people mention how good the day was (and he's been at the club since he was a junior). The turnout was brilliant and it was so nice to see so many attend, watch the exhibition match and stay to the end. It's a first!