Benefits
What do I get for my Hingham tennis membership?
1. FREE use of two courts all year round*, from 7:30am - 9.30pm, bookable up to one week in advance (except when in use for timetabled club sessions). *Adult members may have up to 2 x 60 minute unplayed sessions booked per week (and can book up to 2 sessions in 24 hour period). There is no overall limit, but we ask members to vary their booking slots during busy times (these tend to be weekday evening and weekend morning) so everyone gets a chance to book. Junior members -Parents should book courts on behalf of junior members and may book for 60 minutes of play. Juniors under 13 years must be supervised (please see T&C for full details). Floodlight tokens available to purchase - please see court bookings info.
2. Swipe card access to the Tennis Hut to view play and relax with friends. The swipe card is required to access the padlock key for the courts. Please note you will be asked to pay a non refundable £5 fee to cover the cost of the swipe card.
3. We are extremely lucky to have our own LTA level 3 coach, Jonathan Lindner, LTA level 3 coach - for more details see the coaching tab on this website. Hingham Tennis members may book individual or small group lessons at a discounted rate with Jonathan and receive discount for coach led group sessions.
4. Members over 10yrs old can opt in to the annual LTA Wimbledon Ticket Ballot (provided you sign up for LTA Advantage membership which is free to HiT members). The ballot is no longer run at local club level but you can still opt in with your free LTA Advantage membership.
5. Online bookings - to reserve a court or book go to our website. It’s all done online.
6. FREE* attendance to these sessions:
- HiT Doubles Match Play- Wednesday and Friday evenings: social matches with other members. Just turn up and join in *£1pp contribution for flood lit play)
- HiT Social Saturdays: fun and informal social tennis games.
- HiT Serve and Slice- Monday morning doubles play with coffee and cake afterwards. Regular attendees bake or bring a cake (there's a rota for this). Anyone welcome- email for details.
8. Access, at a discounted member rate, to a timetable of coach-led sessions (available during term time).
Beginners/improvers: a structured group coaching session for all adult players.
Cardio Tennis: fun, sociable, tennis inspired fitness class - all ages & abilities.
9. Access to various WhatApp groups to help arrange social play or matches with other members.
10. Under 18’s - there is a programme of coach-led lessons for our Mini and Junior players. Offered at a reduced rate for members.
11. Discounted 'guest' court booking for friends and family who are non members. Book a court online then pay £5 to bring a non member guests along for hit.
12. Membership of the Hingham Sports and Social Club (HSSC) is included for all adult members for the current year- once you have obtained your members swipe card take it along to the bar to join the HSSC (Abrabam's bar is in the sports hall).
Not planning membership but fancy playing?
If membership isn’t for you, a Pay & Play option will be available. New-you can now make pay and play bookings via LTA Rally. Please see LTA website for details.
Non-members will be able to attend coach-led sessions but set at a higher fee compared to members.
Parent Membership
For the safety of our young players, and to safeguard our premises, children age under 13 years must be accompanied by an adult member on the courts and in the Tennis Hut.
Supervising adults who do not wish to take out a full adult membership can be a 'Parent Member' - this allows one named adult per court to knock-about with their children. The Parent Member rather than the child will be issued with the Tennis Hut swipecard. Please note parent membership is not equivalent to full adult membership and only allows the parent member to supervise/play alongside their child/children. 'Parent members' may not attend the courts without the child member: the child must also be a mini or junior member of Hingham Tennis. If parents wish to join adult coach sessions or take private lessons a guest fee is payable (please consider and adult or family membership package in this case).