The Cliff Richard Tennis Trail

Since it was established in 1991, the Cliff Richard Tennis Foundation has gone a long way towards achieving its aim of introducing tennis to more children.

This has mainly been achieved through the Cliff Richard Tennis Trail, the UK's leading grassroots tennis initiative. The Tennis Trail has five main objectives:

The Tennis Trail

To take tennis directly to children in state primary schools
To encourage and assist the schools involved with the scheme to feature tennis on their timetable on a year round basis
To give athletically talented children the opportunity to become more seriously involved with tennis
To introduce tennis as a family sport - a sport that can be played for a lifetime
To promote and fund tennis development programmes for children in each area visited

The Tennis Trail

Child from St Vincent's Primary School in Ealing - recently visited by the Cliff Richard Tennis Trail

The Tennis Trail targets towns, cities and remote rural areas where there is often high unemployment or a large percentage of single parents - places where the children might not ordinarily get the chance to learn about the game.

Last year nearly 10,000 children were introduced to Tennis through the Trail, taking our running total since the programme begun to well over 270,000

Click on the icon to listen to Paul Regan, Head Coach on the Tennis Trail, talking to Radio Wimbledon about how the Tennis Trail operates and what children can expect when they receive a visit from the Trail. (Requires Real Player)

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