Quarry Road Free Parks Tennis

FREE Tennis in Swindon Born 16-Aug 2025. Book Here. Saturdays 10-11 at Quarry Road. This is the only Free Parks Tennis currently in Swindon.

Brought to you by your Facilitators Peter, Sam & Laura – but looking for more volunteers so we can get a rota of helpers to step in when others are away. Contact us at quarryfpt@gmail.com

Cancellations. The best we can do is ask you to mail quarryfpt@gmail.com where we will leave an OOO message – but if it’s raining or the courts are slippery or there is no facilitator, you can read that message to use the code.

Parking. You can park right outside the courts for 2 hours, so 10 until 12 is ok, but be careful if you move further up the hill past the playing fields. Beyond the “School” sign on the right, there are residents parking restrictions. They do start ticketing after 8am, so that’ll hardly be FREE tennis for you !

• Rota: 27-Jun: Laura, Sam, Peter
• 04-Jul: Peter, A&A
• 11-Jul: A&A, ¿Peter?
• 18-Jul: Peter
• 25-Jul: Peter

Where can I play & learn tennis?

“Intermediate?” Come along Sundays at St Marks 10-12 just to see how you get on with some social doubles tennis; the Swindon Tennis Club is happy to offer a handful of sessions as a taster before you join. Although we’d love you to join & play with us at St Marks we recognise this is a financial commitment, but there are several membership plans available, and other tennis clubs are out there and Delta Tennis offers pay & play. There is no tennis club as such at Quarry Road but a group of us meet and play regularly co-ordinated through whatsapp

Resources Links etc to follow

• USTA drills
• Facebook links (1) Serve

• FPT at St Marks saw up to 12 players when it was running
• How does this work elsewhere, what issues or learnings do others have?
• We have no local advertising, but have added created a flyer on site

• Attendance. We have access to clubspark as ‘quarrytennistas’ so we can see who has signed up for a session
• Sessions/attendees/activators. 16-Aug to 20-Dec.(x20). Cancelled (x3). No shows (x1).
• Cancel (1). If there is no-one signed up we figure we will cancel the session. If early weather warnings/storms then the night before, otherwise 9am
• Cancel (2). We have an email account with an OOO message on cancellation people can contact
• We have a First Aid kit, and ice packs
• We have hoodies and look the part
• The Kit includes rackts, junior balls and cones is held by one of us, but will be stored on site
• 3 of us are in a rota and organise ourselves to make sure someone is there – is there any chance of getting others, we did see at first another volunteer was on the NTA books, but saw nothing of them
• The NTA web page is out of date – contact details need updating
• We’re happy to host our own facebook page
• The three 2025/6 volunteers are Swindon Club members
• Professional advertising & poster on site would be welcomed
• We intend to leave the key code, obtained by OOO message, in case we are not there
• We have agreed with CL that we refresh balls as needed from his stock
• We have some green dot balls, we have red balls for childrens drills
• Quarterly CPD, supported by local coaches, has been discussed with CL and agreed for us ‘non-coaches’
• Links about start a “drill database” for fun games to play, but we’re relying on each other simply to get folks playing
• This is an entirely voluntary commitment with no pay

Onboarding a facilitator

Complete the web facilitator on-line course including DBS, get access to Coaches LTA club spark app – allowing to see who is registered for the session and knowing how to cancel a session, join our whatsapp group (sorry 🙁 not ANOTHER one), get included on our private email d-list. Remember incident/injury forms, we have a first aid kit and access to the courts, quarryfpt email, let everyone know so we can keep our rota up to date, get a hoody from NTA. Safety brief includes – nearby toilet facilities. be aware of our OOO message. Parking is important. Passwords and user names shared