Working with Us
We're proud to work with several partner clubs in South Wales who are able to call on a wide-range of our services to help grow their coaching activity, club particicpation and membership numbers:
- Full Coaching Programme Management
- Coach Development, Deployment, & Management
- Competition Programming
- Welfare & Safeguarding Guidance
- Web & IT Support
- Membership & Visitor Fee Facillites
Contact Us to find out more about working with Tennis Squad.
Committee Testimonials
Peter Rees - former Chair, Llantrisant Tennis Club. "Over the years, Llantrisant LTC has seen many coaches come and go. Once they had gained some experience, they would quickly move on to a bigger club so a cycle of disruption, recruitment and change continued. The subsequent partnership with Tennis Squad, has provided long term stability and quality assurance for the club which is seeing its numbers growing significantly. Tennis Squad’s professional approach to communication, marketing, player attraction and coaching has lead to a big growth in playing numbers, far better player retention and much less administration for the club. The quality of the coaching has been particularly impressive and includes regular competition for all levels of player as well as a clear player progression pathway. Ongoing training and development of coaches and Tennis leaders is also a notable feature of the coaching programme. The club has further benefitted from Tennis Squad’s input and experience at committee level and it’s clear that their core principles are applied equally across all their partner clubs
All in all, their quality and professionalism has been excellent and the partnership with them has been, without doubt, one of the best decisions the club has made. Long may it continue."
Tim Dawes - former Chair, Windsor Lawn Tennis Club, Penarth. "Tennis Squad with Rob Wedlake at the helm have been instrumental in supporting the club's mission statement to create the right conditions for tennis to thrive at all ages, levels and abilities. Rob and his team have taken this one stage further by developing their coaching team to gain further qualifications and careers. Providing workshops for aspiring tennis squad volunteers into a pathway for coaching and even some adult club members have been able to formulate new careers as coaches via the support of Tennis Squad. With a well rounded range of coaching to suit all levels of abilities, Tennis Squad has been instrumental in growing the playing of tennis at PWLTC."
Matt Davies - Managing Director, Ocean Park Sports Education."Prior to partnering with Tennis Squad we had three disused tennis courts, no nets, public access or tennis programme. With their expertise and passion to grow the game they have supported us with funding links, safeguarding support, a fully automated online booking system and a thriving coaching programme. The entire coaching team act as professional ambassadors for our community venue and we value the partnership greatly."
Andrew Carr - Club Captain, Barry Athletic Tennis Club. "Here at Barry Athletic Tennis Club we look forward to our annual Open Days which have been made richer thanks to the involvement of Rob Wedlake and the excellent coaches at Tennis Squad. Their support and unique ideas have added real value to the events and to our wider club programme. This has, in turn, led to an increase in junior and adult membership while also helping to promote the club within the surrounding areas. Most importantly, players of all abilities have thrived under the expert coaching provided by Tennis Squad and have a thoroughly fun time!"
Jason Rikh - Chair & Director, Llantrisant Tennis Club Ltd."We are a small club and like many in our position, lacking in volunteers to undertake the onerous tasks required of any organisation involved in activities with members of the public. We found it very difficult to supply high quality coaching with any degree of oversight or continuity and were falling well short of what paying customers might expect from an LTA registered club.
Tennis squad have quite simply provided us with an 'out-sourced' solution which ticks all the boxes, whether that be regulatory, safeguarding, administrative, hiring of coaches, continuity when coaches are ill, high levels of competency in delivery of coaching and in meeting important requirements when applying for grants. Essentially, we pay for a service which we could not copy without a much heavier cost burden and significant human resource, which we don't have within the club.
I can honestly say, Tennis Squad are an integral part of our club proposition and I could not imagine running a successful club without their services. We consider them to be part of the management team and they take an active role in the decisions we make. Rob offers great insight, has been a fantastic sounding board and offers practical help over and above that which he is contracted to provide. I couldn't recommend Tennis Squad more strongly for any club looking to offer a professional coaching solution without the associated resource required to supply it."
Tom George - Chairman, Pentyrch Tennis Club. "As a small club of approximately 100 members, finding volunteers and coaching staff is always a challenge. Our long standing coach Graham North is at an age where it was becoming harder to cope with full on coaching duties. We therefore turned to Rob Wedlake at Tennis Squad for assistance. Not only have TS brought a renewed enthusiasm to members young and old, their coaching staff, in particular Will have transformed our junior section.
We like the efforts that Rob and his team bring in advertising our club locally and this will ensure we will retain members long term. We’ve also taken the decision to use TS to look after our website and social media going forward.
We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with TS."