Club Vision
Our vision is to be a respected and high performing tennis club in Bucks and Berks offering a friendly and dynamic social environment for all our members to enjoy playing tennis, and to be a community facility offering non-members the chance to enjoy the sport.
Our Mission is to
- Offer quality tennis facilities to the members and the community
- Develop the junior club players to their fullest tennis potential
- Provide means of improving the standard of play of our members
- Compete successfully in the county leagues
- Continue to provide a lively, sociable and friendly environment for our members
- Sustain and grow membership of the Farnham Common Tennis Club
Our Objectives are
(Objectives were agreed in Sept 2011 and are still work in progress)
Medium term (before July 2014)
- Re-instate the “Club Finals Day” by September 2013
- Obtain Club Mark by July 2014
- Achieve a net growth of 15 juniors annually as part of the membership growth
- Put forward at least 2 juniors for county selection trials each year from 2015
- Have at least 4 junior players entering a minimum of six local and county LTA approved singles tournaments per year, some of which to be supported by the club coach from 2014
- Run at least one men's singles team by 2014
Long term (before Apr 2015)
- Have flood lights operational for the Winter season 2015
- Put forward at least 2 juniors for county selection trials each year from 201
- Improve the ranking of the club teams to:
Men
- have two 3 pair teams by 2015
- have the 1st team playing in division 1 of the 3 pair league by 2015
- have three 2 pair teams by 2015
Ladies
- Achieve promotion of the ladies 3 team in 2014 season
Juniors
- have strong squads of juniors consisting of a minimum of 3 players per 2 player team and 6 players per 4 player team and we should be fielding the following squads:
16&U, 14&U and 12&U girls (2 player teams)
16&U, 14&U and 12&U boys (2 player teams)
10&U, 9&U, 8&U mixed teams (4 player teams)
- have at least two teams winning their respective divisions each year by 2015
On-going
- Successfully run a minimum of 8 tennis competitions each year
- Successfully run a minimum of 2 non tennis related social events each year
- Sustain a minimum of ??% annual growth in membership