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 by Hawarden-based Platt Construction, who did the work at Denbigh Tennis Club a couple of years ago, and who are in the process of completely re-building the facilities at Mold Tennis Club. The required weather conditio
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, with columns for name, address, phone numbers, etc. This doesn't make these details particularly easy to use though - for example, if we wanted to send an e-mail to all members we'd have to separately set up e-mail dis
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 this way don't appear too onerous. There also appears to be no reason why we should be denied this status, and the benefits could be significant over time. Charitable status could make it easier for the club to obtain
