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LTA Tennis Foundation launches

The LTA Tennis Foundation is a new tennis charity that partners with brilliant people and organisations to improve lives through tennis. It is formally launching today and will be raising awareness of its work during the upcoming grass court season.  The charity shares the LTA’s vision of ‘tennis opened up’

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Disability Tennis Camps, in partnership with the LTA

Join us for a weekend of expert tennis coaching for players of all abilities and experience levels, mixed with fun, social activities to meet other players! We are hosting impairment specific camps – one for wheelchair tennis, one for visually impaired tennis (B1-B4/5 with B1 players in their own hall)

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New Promotional video

We are happy to share with you all a promotional video we have just released to highlight the work the Trust does. We would encourage tennis clubs and other groups to show this at any events as it may inspire some fundraisers, or business or personal donations….. we hope you

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David Mercer Fundraiser

Please support Carolyn, David’s daughter as she takes on the Cardiff Half Marathon, running in memory of her father. https://justgiving.com/campaign/davidmercer She decided to raise funds from her run towards a charity that her father always held dear to his heart – the Dan Maskell Tennis Trust. All funds raised will

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Wimbledon Foundation/HSBC donation

The Trust was absolutely delighted to receive a donation of £20,000 from the Wimbledon Foundation in the last quarter of the year. This was most welcome news as the Wimbledon Foundation usually distributes proceeds from the Ticket Resale Scheme at The Championships, which includes match funding from The Championships’ Official

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Elaine Paige to continue as DMTT President

Elaine Paige OBE has been unanimously re-elected as President of the Dan Maskell Tennis Trust for a 5th 3-year term of office from 2022-2024. Elaine took over from the first President, John Barrett, MBE, in 2010 when the Trust became an independent charity in its own right. Chairman Sue Wolstenholme,

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Christmas is coming! Help to raise funds through shopping sites

DMTT has launched a “How to Guide” to encourage shoppers to raise donations at no extra cost to you. Abbie Breakwell, one of the Trust’s Ambassadors, explains how to sign up in this video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K2rTeB0Kdc Learn how to easily raise money for the Dan Maskell Tennis Trust by

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Val Fisher

The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust was incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Val Fisher last week. Val was a passionate wheelchair tennis player who will be remembered by so many as being the person who convinced them to try tennis, who was the person who made them feel comfortable at their first event and above all else, was a person who always cared about others. Val was instrumental in fundraising for the Trust, helping to organise fundraisers at the Shrewsbury Wheelchair Tennis

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DMTT Virtual Golf Tournament raises over £11,500!

The first Dan Maskell Tennis Trust Virtual Golf Tournament has raised an incredible £11,520. This Tournament was instigated to help make up for the loss of income due to our regular Golf Celebrity Challenge not running for two consecutive years due to the pandemic.

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Major Online Auction Launched in Conjunction with eBay

From Thursday 24th August – Sunday 3rd September, DMTT is running an online auction on eBay to raise funds for our grant funding programme for people with disabilities who play tennis.