The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is providing a unique opportunity to members of LTA affiliated clubs such as Stony. The LTA is offering you FREE membership to British Tennis, its new membership programme through to 2012. This membership and benefits are only free to members of affiliated clubs such as ours.
Joining British Tennis means becoming part of the British Tennis Family of 1 million-plus members. It means building a strong foundation for a winning British game. It means being recognised for your contribution to tennis. It means supporting tennis from the grass roots to Centre Court.
The SSLTC Committee would encourage you to join now to become a part of the future of British Tennis.
British Tennis Membership is an individual membership scheme for adults and juniors who play or have an interest in British tennis. People who sign up to the scheme receive individual benefits and become part of the British tennis family. Benefits include entry into their club’s ballot for Wimbledon tickets from 2009; an LTA player rating; the opportunity to access additional packages including other world class tennis events and a TeamCard loyalty card that lets British Tennis Members earn points when they shop with TeamCard’s partner retailers.
Club affiliation is in effect ‘club membership to the LTA’. Clubs join their county tennis association and as a result the club and its committee or management receive a number of benefits. Benefits include comprehensive cover through the LTAs liability scheme protecting clubs and their committees; legal and financial advice available on demand through the BASeline service; the opportunity for club teams to compete in both county and national leagues; and access to a network of county offices and a wide range of expertise covering facilities, talent identification and development, club school links, coach support and competition. Part of each member's annual subscription to SSLTC is used to pay the club affiliation fee to the LTA.
So what is new for 2008?
British Tennis Membership – free for all affiliated club members until 2012
Over 95,000 people have become members since the launch of British Tennis Membership in March 2008. However, many tennis players are still not benefiting from being a part of British tennis and receiving the rewards that individual membership can bring.
To ensure all club members can benefit from British Tennis Membership, it has been decided to extend free British Tennis Membership to all members of affiliated clubs until 2012.
Wimbledon tickets 2009
Please note that your clubs 2009 allocation of Wimbledon tickets will be based on the number of your club members (adults and juniors aged 9 and over) who have signed up as a British Tennis Member by the 30th November 2008.
Wimbledon tickets through your club ballot, from 2009, will only be available to British Tennis Members and all of your club members who are signed up as British Tennis Members must be included within your club ballot.
To access this FREE membership, please cut and paste the link into your browser: http://www.lta.org.uk/britishtennismembership
