Committee member Dave Hughes, who has been handling the process of getting quotes for court resurfacing (and was also one of the three committee members who put forward our successful application to a local trust fund), has received confirmation that, weather permitting, work will commence on resurfacing Court 1 and Court 2 on Tuesday 7th April. This is a major event for Pen-y-ffordd Tennis Club - the current surfaces were laid around 30 years ago! The work will be undertaken

If you've been onto the membership page recently you'll see that this year, for the first time, we're managing club memberships using a system called "ClubSpark". We're one of the first clubs in the UK to make use of ClubSpark, which has been developed (and is still being further developed) for the LTA, who in turn are making it available to clubs like ours (who pay an annual fee to the LTA). For some years now we've held all our member details in a simple Excel spreadsheet,

Pen-y-ffordd Tennis Club committee member Val Stewart has, over the past few weeks, been busily working towards making an application for the club to become a registered charity. Her investigations have led to a decision taken by the club's management committee as to the type of charitable status to be sought, namely that of a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). This type of charitable status appears to match nicely to our club, and the steps required to be set up in