Club AGM 2009
The Annual General Meeting of the club will be held in the Clubhouse on:
Tuesday 10th November at 7.30 pm
Bearsden Gains LTA Clubmark Award!
Bearsden
Lawn Tennis Club has become one of the first member's clubs in Scotland
to gain the LTA Clubmark Accreditation Award. The award signifies LTA
approval of the club's coaching plans and activities on court and that
best practice policies and procedures are in place off court. Activities
covered by the award included the club's year round coaching programme
and links with local schools. The club gives curriculum time 'tennis taster'
sessions in three primary schools. Last week, for example, the entire
47 strong P3 class at Bearsden Primary came to enjoy an afternoon 'tennis
festival' at the club in Jubilee Gardens organised with the help of Active
School Sports coordinator Catriona Shields and run by club coach Gordon
Wilson.
To qualify for the award the club committee had to consider every aspect
of the club's activities in the light of LTA guidance on best practice
and provide evidence that the club was doing all the right things.
Clubmark approval indicates that the club's coaches have appropriate qualifications
and that child protection, equity, health and safety and volunteer management
issues have been addressed.
The Clubmark Award was presented to the club by Tennis Scotland Tennis
Development Manager Mike Cohen on Saturday 12th September 2009. Mike congratulated
Bearsden on being the first club run by its members in the West of Scotland,
where play is based on outdoor courts, to receive this award.
The
photograph below shows Mike Cohen (Tennis Scotland Development Manager),
John Beeley (Bearsden Clubmark Coordinator) and Len Berlouis (Club President).
