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Okehampton tennis Club news,

December 2025

🎈 Party time Christmas social, Sat Dec 6th  at the golf club! Lovely venue, good food, it will be fun and a chance to get to know co-members a bit better! Contact Louise Weller for info/booking: Dragrem@hotmail.co.uk  Text/WhatsApp 07392 589 001

🏆 Awards ceremony will be held at the Christmas party – including, Best player, Best Junior, Team player of the year, Services to the club, Volunteer of the year, Rising star,

🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾 Ball machine is now available for members to check out and use. If you are interested and need a demo contact Graham or Steve Lo. It was purchased with funding from Sport England and Okehampton United Charities, to help us get more people playing more tennis.  If you have ideas on how we could use it to reach more people, members and general public please let Penny know.

❄️ 💨 ☔️ Jan / Feb indoor tennis. Sumiyo is organising some ½ days sessions at the Manor: a morning playing followed by buffet lunch.  Please let us know if you are interested.

‼️ When renewing your club membership remember to also renew OCRA membership. Need to do so each year. OCRA membership is free for us but is required to get court bookings at no cost.

£££££ ONLINE PAYMENTS TO CLUB (for membership/ events/etc) are absolutly fine, but you can save club money by using bank transfers which don’t have a transaction fee……  

🐏 Tennis Coaching – Lisa’s two Sat morning sessions for juniors are now full.  She’ll start a 3rd session in the spring.  We’re planning to host a small juniors tournament against other clubs in April.

Thursday night club coaching continues, and is great fun. £10 a session.  WhatsApp or text Lisa if you’d like to join us.

Read about SUNDAY MORNING TENNIS with OCRA and Tony Hawks here.  We’re lucky to have Tony’s time and energy, he makes Sunday tennis really fun, for everyone from little kids to experienced players wanting a different format to club sessions. It’s OPEN TO NON MEMBERS, equipment provided if needed, please spread the message in your local networks.

📢  Emergency contact details.  Please ensure you have an emergency tel # and any health /important medication on your clubspark profile. We have had accidents requiring A&E this year. Info on who to contact makes it soo much easier for those who find themselves doing an unexpected hospital run …...

🚑 Accident report forms are in the club room, on the wall, or download here – please complete one, even for small accidents and injuries, and leave in the folder in the club room or share with the secretary by email.

🎁 🎒 👟 If you are Christmas shopping or looking to upgrade your racket, footwear, hoodie?  We have 15% off first purchases at www.prodirectsport.com the official LTA retailer, based in Newton Abbot.  On further purchases there’s 10% off + free delivery. Use the code LTAPLUSCOMPETE at checkout.

🍂 🍁 Autumn leaves Lots of leaves, twigs, etc that need clearing from the courts at this time of year.  If you have spare time, please help clear them. We have a broom, dustpan, leaf blower, and collecting bags in the club store. Every little bit helps.  Dump them by the mill leat/stream, or take home for compost! 

Our teams We’ll have Ladies, Men’s and mixed teams playing summer league next year. If you are interested in practicing for the teams over winter contact the captains Hayley, Liz, Graham, Matt, Dave.

🤔 Growing the club. We’ve got more people playing tennis in Okehampton this year and started to grow the club 🪴but there’s a lot to do. If you have ideas, or time to help with publicity, extra sessions for beginners, performance training, or other activities please let us know.

🫡 For suggestions, compliments and complaints   Speak to any committee member, or contact the chair or secretary - chair@okehamptontennisclub.co.uk   If you’d like to talk to a 3rd party contact Ian Blyth, LTA or Devon tennis.

If you are worried about your own or anyone elses safety contact our Welfare & safeguarding lead, Ian Blyth ian@ocrasport.org.uk.  Tel 01837 54546   If it is an emergency call the police or NSPCC

Our full complaints (and compliments!) procedure,  codes of conduct, tennis rules are on the website.

THE NAMES, PHOTOS, & CONTACT DETAILS FOR COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE NOW POSTED ON CLUB NOTICEBOARDS (court side and in the pavillion).

We post on the website and facebook regularly. Like and share these posts if you can, it really helps publicise the club and attract new players.