The Lawn Tennis Association is hoping to broaden the sport’s reach through a new partnership with the Scouts.
A programme of activities designed to introduce the organisation’s Beaver groups aged six to eight to the basic skills of the sport has been developed based on the LTA’s new Youth Start programme.
The LTA has made diversifying the sport at all levels its major goal and, with the activities able to be delivered in a wide range of different settings, it hopes this three-year partnership will see tennis reach more children and communities.
Jo-Anne Downing, the governing body’s products and programmes manager, told the PA news agency: “We want to partner with organisations that are going to be able to help us encourage more kids from all different backgrounds to get active through tennis.
“We do a lot through clubs and we do a lot through schools but, to me, the Scouts and the Guides is that community channel. It’s tennis in a non-traditional tennis place.”
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