TT Kidz will as soon as once more be working in October 2023 with the centralised reserving system now open.
The programme goals to supply a enjoyable, partaking and galvanizing first expertise in desk tennis for kids aged 7-to-11-year-olds. Take a look at how TT Kidz is encouraging a brand new era of junior gamers.
Over the previous couple of years 800+ new kids have engaged with the sport for the primary time!
The initiative is proving a worthy addition to a membership’s providing with 98% of kids surveyed discovering the classes enjoyable and 99% of fogeys happy with the worth for cash.
93% of kids would additionally wish to play extra desk tennis following the programme – so in case you’re trying to interact extra juniors and begin a brand new rookies’ session, TT Kidz may very well be simply the device to do that.
Two golf equipment which have benefited from TT Kidz have been Halton Desk Tennis Membership in Widnes, in addition to Goodwin Desk Tennis Membership in Hull.
Goodwin shaped in July 2018 and out of 80 members solely three had been juniors. To deal with this, the membership ran two TT Kidz initiatives and now have near 40 juniors attending every week with plans to develop a neighborhood junior league and put groups into the Nationwide Cadet & Junior Leagues for the primary time.
TT Kidz was the catalyst to draw new juniors. After the preliminary eight weeks we have now stored the classes working. This has additionally acted as an advert to draw different children resembling friendship teams of their very own age and stage and has now constructed into a daily group.
Dave Randerson, Chair Goodwin Desk Tennis Membership.
After dropping coaches who might ship within the daytime, for Halton Desk Tennis Membership TT Kidz was an ideal alternative to maintain selling the membership to under-11s. The membership have additionally used the programme to help their older juniors with some management expertise by permitting them to be concerned with the supply of the classes. To date, Halton have had 79 under-11s interact with the sport and membership by TT Kidz.
During the last two phases we have now additionally seen a small variety of girls-only TT Kidz initiatives, with nice success in partaking new under-11 women into the sport. Rising this quantity is a key precedence for this coming Autumn.
One such club was Stratford-upon-Avon TTC; by having a girls-only surroundings, you may actually cater your classes and training to make sure the ladies really feel assured and luxuriate in participating. Suggestions from earlier all-girls TT Kidz classes have mentioned that the ladies actually help one another and there’s a actual united group within the classes. Having the ladies begin all collectively may additionally imply that you’ll retain them after the eight weeks as they’ve a longtime social group to play in.
Advantages of working TT Kidz
- Centralised reserving system – Desk Tennis England does all of the processing.
- Youngsters obtain their very own package bag with bat, t-shirt, balls and exercise e-book for simply £25. Golf equipment cost dad and mom for the block or on a weekly foundation as prefered.
- Leaflets and posters to distribute in your area people resembling colleges.
- Detailed lesson plans and 50+ brief tutor movies for every exercise.
- Tools bag good for taster days in colleges.
