Welcome to the Spital Bowling and Tennis Club!
Boasting a large crown bowling green and three floodlit, hard surface, all weather courts, there is hardly a better place to play bowls and/or tennis in Tamworth. We would say that because we are proud of our club and wish everyone in Tamworth area who loves bowls and tennis would join us!
We are a club run by volunteers for the benefit of the membership and the local community.
Tennis members at Spital enjoy;
- Ability to book courts from 9am to 9pm, 7 days a week
- Club sessions on Saturday afternoons from 2pm, Wednesday evenings from 6pm.
- Ladies practice and match nights on Mondays at 6pm.
- Men's practice and match nights are Tuesdays at 6pm.
- Mixed doubles practice is on Thursdays at 6pm with matches typically either Thursday or Friday.
- Fun tournaments and social events
- Competitive Tennis in the Burton league.
We have two ladies teams, two men's teams and two mixed doubles teams who play April to September.
Competing in the Cup and Saucer league which is a competitive ladies league with matches from April to September. Practice sessions and matches are played during the day (Mondays and Wednesdays).
Coaching from £5/ session:
- Junior coaching sessions on Thursday 5pm and Saturday 9am to 12pm,
- Adult coaching Thursday 6pm for Beginners/Improvers, and 7pm for Intermediate+
Visit the Coaching page to find out more and come along to one of the sessions. All ages and abilities are welcome to join.
If you are an adult and just want to play for fun and make new friends, come along to the club sessions where we tend to play doubles and everyone mixes in. If you are more serious about your play then come to team practice and you may get selected to play in one of our league teams. Visit the page about membership packages – we run introductory offers from time to time with coaching sessions included.
We welcome non-members to try tennis through our coaching programms and open days.
We welcome anyone that wants to come and try the game of bowls or those looking for a club in which to play.
Bowling
Bowling takes place Monday to Saturday. Each day there is a social afternoon when members turn up at 1:45 p.m. for a 2:00 p.m. start. We take a tea break around 3 p.m. when we all break for around 15 minutes to partake of refreshments and a general social chat before resuming on the green until around 4:45 p.m. We welcome guests to the club who can loan some bowls if they don't have any of their own. There is guest fee of £5 for each days play. Guests are always welcome to come and join in, except for match days, when you can come and watch the games. Membership of the club allows you to play 6 days a week during the bowling season, weather permitting. In addition to the social afternoons members can book to play on the green in a morning or evening.
Various annual in-house competitions are played on selected Thursdays. Friendly matches are also arranged with other clubs home and away and there is a team that plays in the Baddesley Miners Mid-week League. The season ends with a member Presentation Lunch normally in November.
During the bowling closed season we run a social afternoon on a Thursday where members meet and play various games like dominoes, cards, scrabble, etc. During this closed season we also play table tennis on Tuesday & Friday afternoons.
We welcome anyone that wants to come and try the game of bowls or those looking for a club in which to play.