The Dedanists Foundation is a charity established to help regenerate this historic game through the promotion of Junior tennis. Our aim is to get younger people impassioned about our sport and to harness the enthusiasm, knowledge and skills of the game’s professionals and its clubs. Through our programme of grants, we intend to:
- Support real tennis clubs to reach out to all young people in thei
r local communities.
- Teach young people to play real tennis, inspiring a love of the game and its tradition of good sportsmanship.
- Create sustainable junior membership sections within clubs.
- Significantly increase the number of under- 24’s involved in the game and keep them engaged. We aim to do this by supporting clubs who show an eagerness to work with young people by:
- Increasing youth involvement on an open access basis.
- Devoting court-time and other resources to young people from their local communities, schools and youth groups.
- Coaching and entering a club junior team to play in the new national inter-club tournament for juniors, called the Peter Luck-Hille Cup and run by the Foundation.
- Working alongside the Foundation in promoting the CPD1 Course for Club Junior Coordinators, which teaches Amateur members to help run junior tennis within clubs.
