About Newport Pagnell Tennis Club
Welcome to the Newport Pagnell
Tennis Club website.
If you are already a member or just thinking of joining please feel free to take a look around our site.
The Club offers great value tennis and is located at the end of Willen Road, Newport Pagnell next to the football ground. We have a welcoming little Clubhouse with tea and coffee facilities, good quality courts professionally cleaned by "Tennis Courts Services LTD", and a small neat garden area. Members get year-round access to the facilities, dedicated clubnights for adults and juniors, social events such as Barbeques, American Tournaments and Quiz Nights as well as a full calendar of competitive tennis for players of various ages.
So, if you are looking for good, affordable tennis in the Milton Keynes area then why not give Newport Pagnell Tennis Club a try - we think you will like it.
Come and Play at NPTC
Whether you are a junior looking to learn how to play, a beginner interested in playing tennis socially or a more experienced player looking for competitive play, you will find the Club has something to offer you.
There are lots of options here to suit your playing needs - you can either:
Become a member – 12 months adult membership is available for as little as £45 with no joining fee – see the Joining Information section of this website for the full details or call Mary Hartley on 01908 605435 or m.hartley318@btinternet.com
If you want to try the club out first then why not use our 'play before you pay' scheme? Anybody interested in joining the Club is welcome to attend one of our club nights on a Wednesday or a Sunday from 6.00pm.
Non-members can hire our 4th Court for just £6 an hour via Middleton Swimming Pool, where keys can be obtained.
For night-time play, Club members can obtain floodlight tokens which are available from the Treasurer, Dan Myers (Tel:07791 265773) at a cost of £4.00 per hour. You will also require a Clubhouse key which members can obtain from Mary Hartley (£5 deposit required).
We hope to see you soon
Coaching update - Adult and Junior Coaching Courses
Club Coach Sue Evans is running two adult coaching programmes which start soon. The first runs on Friday mornings (10-11.30) for ten weeks from 10 Sept. For a more info and a sign-up form click here: Adult coaching - Friday mornings The second runs on Monday evenings (7.00-8.30) for ten weeks starting on Monday 6 Sept. For more info and a sign-up form click here: Adult coaching - Monday evenings
This courses are aimed at all ability levels including beginners and improvers, so would be ideal for those who are new to tennis or who can already play but want to develop their skills.
You can join the programmes whether you are a Club member or not and your are guaranteed an interesting and enjoyable learning experience with others of a similar playing ability.
To contact Sue for further information about junior and adult coaching please call 07862 734152 .
Junior Tennis at NPTC
The Club has a strong Junior membership and offers Junior members opportunities for both social and competitive play.
Junior members have year-round access to the courts, a dedicated Junior Club night from late April to late October and the opportunity to participate in dedicated junior coaching with Club Coach, Sue Evans.
You can download a junior membership form by following this link: Junior Membership Form 2010
The Club provides mini red, orange and green tennis to LTA standards during Junior Club nights so that junior players benefit from this LTA endorsed initiative. Mini-tennis also allows our junior members to compete in LTA events, some of which we will be hosting. We are very grateful to Sport MK for their generous grant which has been used along with money raised by the club to purchase equipment which is specifically designed for mini-tennis. We are also grateful to Bucks LTA for their support towards the cost of tennis balls for junior club nights which is much appreciated.
The success of our Under 18's teams was featured in an article within the December 2008 edition of Tiebreaker, the magazine of Bucks tennis and the Club's work with young volunteers has been noted on the main LTA website. To read the article simply follow this link: LTA article on young volunteers
For more information on junior membership and junior news please click on the Junior Tennis section and follow the page links.
Teams & Competitions
The Club participates in both the Milton Keynes Tennis League and the Bucks Shield and has a full schedule of fixtures for the 2010/11 season at both adult and junior level.
The finals of the Club's annual tournament for members took place on 12th and 13th September 2009 and were very well supported with spectators treated to some high quality matches. Congratulations to those who went home with the trophies and thanks to everyone who took part.
Once again, the Club ran a Men's Tennis League throughout the summer which was very competitive and ended in September with Stuart Lovell the overall League and League Cup winner. For the full schedule of fixtures and results [click here]. For more information about our men’s singles league and to see the latest league table, please visit the league’s dedicated group of pages under the club competitions menu.
Visit the photobook to see pictures of the winners of our 2009 tournaments.
NPTC in the community
NPTC is very active in raising money for good causes. In 2009, the Club ran both of our annual sponosored charity events, the 12 hour tennis marathon and the junior fun day, which were very well supported and enjoyed by all who attended. In addition, Club Coach Sue Evans organised a charity American-tournament for her Monday evening coaching group, and money was also raised as a result of a raffle and the sale of refreshments and programmes at the club's annual tournament finals weekend.
We are delighted to announce that the Club has raised a total of £544.68 last summer, of which half has been donated to Willen Hospice. The other half will go in to club funds.
Thank you very much to everyone who has helped us to reach such an excellent total. We look forward to raising even more money next year.
Pictured, Tom Garry and Darren Brown, presenting a cheque to Willen Hospice on Thursday the 17th of September 2009. For more information about all of this summer's charity events, please go to the NPTC in the community section or simply click [here].
Tennis Clubmark
We are delighted to announce that Newport Pagnell Tennis Club achieved the 'Tennis Clubmark' quality accreditation from the LTA on 30 September 2009.
This scheme was introduced by Sport England across 24 different sports including Tennis with the aim of ensuring consistent best practice and operating standards in accredited clubs, in particular with working with children and young people. The achievement of Tennis Clubmark is the culmination of much hard work by the Club over the past year to ensure that it meets or exceeds the standards set down by the LTA and is an important milestone for the future development of the club as it opens up potential funding opportunities for new initiatives which would not otherwise be available.
While we are naturally delighted to be awarded Clubmark, there are still things the Club can improve on so your feedback is always welcome.
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