Hello!
Our newsletter is back! After a couple of weeks away and with some staff changes, we’re refreshed and ready to update you on everything that’s going on at your Club this Autumn!
First, this Saturday (21st September) sees the somewhat delayed finale to the Triangle Tournament. Supported by Stabilised Pavements Ltd, SPL, this is the culmination of sporting competition between Frinton’s great sporting Clubs! Come and support, have a drink, buy raffle tickets or simply enjoy the splendid Cricket Club from 1.30pm on Saturday afternoon.
We’d like to welcome back Rebecca. She has now started her role as our Sales & Marketing Manager with a remit to help drive our Club forward. A quick word from her:
‘It’s great to be back and working again for the Club. Over the past 2 weeks it’s been lovely to see so many Members again. We’ve been discussing the aspects that matter to you. We’re actively working on showcasing our Club and the best way to do that is through you, our Members and visitors. Streamlining communication so you know what’s going on and where to find information. To begin, our newsletter will highlight Club matters and we’re activating a fortnightly events email to help showcase what you can get involved with and for you to plan ahead. Other exciting developments are on the way which we’ll release shortly! If you’ve got anything to share on our socials, events you’d like to see or ideas on what we can bring to the Club, please get in touch. Email me rebecca@fosltc.com I’ll be happy to discuss this with you!”
Hannah, who joined us last year, leads our event coordination and function bookings. If you have an enquiry or would like to know any more about what the Club could offer for your private event, you can email her on hannah@fosltc.com
Club Championships
What a fabulous day! The weather was on our side and with some amazing tennis played by our finalists. Club history was also made with Marcus Eatherton winning his 6th consecutive Men’s single title! Congratulations to all our other winners, a full list of results can be viewed HERE A big thank you to Pete and Tom for organising this year’s championships, to Diane and Victoria too and to all players who took part.
Autumn Renovations and The Bubble!
Blimey, the bubble is up! And of course the weather has now decided to stay warm. Anyway, we’re ready for when it inevitably turns! Please remember to book your slots through the Clubspark booking system. We’ve listened to you and taken the decision to keep the fees the same as last year. We’ll continue to monitor useage and income however, please do pay for outdoor lighting and bubble fees, it’s not fair on other Members if you don’t.
A huge debt of thanks to Steve, our head groundsman and Craig for all their work over the summer to ensure our grass courts have played magnificently. For them, the work has not stopped! This week, they’ve worked hard on the autumn renovations for our grass courts. A massive thank you to Matt and Pete from Cromer Tennis for their assistance. Please stay off the courts whilst the works are being completed, ready for next year’s summer season.
Thanks also to all those who took part in the recent survey regarding the bubble fees. Following your feedback, the bubble booking system will stay the same with our pay and play system. If you are interested in receiving more detail of the results, please email tennis@fosltc.com
Members AGM – Friday 11th October 2024
Our annual AGM will be held on Friday 11th October. Arrival from 6pm with the meeting due to commence at 6.30pm. Drinks and food will be served in the bar from 8pm.
To manage attendance, please email hannah@fosltc.com if you are planning to attend.
Whilst we’ll have time for questions on the day, to ensure your question may be considered or answered, do email in advance to Kim@fosltc.com.
Members will be sent a separate communication next week with all the details.
Women’s Squash Week 16th – 22nd September
This week has been Women’s Squash Week. As part of an international campaign celebrating and raising the profile of female squash. This year’s campaign is all about ‘Rallying Together’ to create a fun, safe, and welcoming environment where women and girls can thrive and everyone feels like they belong. To view more information on the free introductory coaching that is currently available alongside this campaign, please view HERE
New Tennis Coach!
As you’ll know, Pete’s assistant coach, Louis Parker has taken a full time teaching role and we’re delighted to announce that alongside our head coach, Pete Richmond, we’re pleased to welcome Charles Grundy to the Club as our new assistant coach with Neet Academy.
With over 25 years experience, Charles is a versatile coach, having taught Red, Orange, Green and Yellow ball for BLTC in Essex. Progressing through the RPT’S Spanish system in 2008 and then onto the LTA’s Accreditation+ , achieving a level 3 qualification. Charles has played in both the UK and abroad including New Zealand and Philadelphia, at University in Bath and has coached at prestigious clubs such as Queen’s Club, Chelsea Harbour Club, Hurlingham Club, Dolphin Square and La Manga. We are confident that his expertise and enthusiasm will greatly enrich your tennis experience.
Events
As Rebecca mentioned, we’ll send a fortnightly events email from next week to keep you updated with our busy events calendar. In the meantime, here’s what’s planned.
For our full calendar click HERE
Roast Lunch | Sunday 29th September
Tables available between 12pm and 2.30pm. Menus and booking can be viewed HERE
Disco Party | Saturday 19th October
Let your hair down as we take you back to the 90’s with our themed DiscoParty. We’ll have all your 90’s classics from our Resident DJ, SW11 DJ. Tickets can be purchased HERE
Roast Lunch | Sunday 20th October
Tables available between 12pm and 2.30pm. Menus and booking can be viewed HERE
Frinton Literary Festival | Sunday 27th October
This year is Afternoon Tea with the UK’s leading etiquette expert, William Henson. The event is sold out but to enquire about returns, please email: enquiries@caxtonbooks.co.uk
Christmas Wonderland Parties
Nope, it’s NOT a typo. We’ve reduce the prices and changed the amended the format this year after hearing from you. Our parties are now £50 per person to include a 2-course festive meal and music from our resident DJ,SW11 DJ. Enabling you to have longer to dance the night away! Menus and dates available to view HERE
These events are booking up quickly to to secure your places and tables, email hannah hannah@fosltc.com to make your booking.
Thursday Night is Games Night
Discounted drinks, plenty of games and pizza! Pizza is served from 6pm till 803.pm, Games start from 7pm.
Pickleball
If you’ve not tried the game that’s becoming really popular across the US and Europe, you can try for yourselves at the Club! We now have weekly pickleball sessions. A big thank you to Tom and Abi for taking this on. Our 2 NEW social sessions are on Monday evenings, from 6pm – 7pm & 7pm – 8pm. Sign-up is required as we have a limited number of spaces per session. Use the link below to register interest: https://heja.io/download/YW281620
The session is £5.00 for non-members and £4.00 for other members. If you have an AAA, pickleball or tennis membership, the session is free! And if you enjoy it… Pickleball membership is only £15 a month! As with all our memberships you’ll benefit from a 20% discount at the bar, access to our swimming pool during the summer and many other benefits. Enquire today by contacting tennis@fosltc.com
Easy Fundraising
Good news! We’ve hit our first goal of raising £2,500 through our easy fundraising scheme! It costs you NOTHING and helps our Club. We still need financial assistance and this is a super simple way to help. I understand that it’s just another thing to do, but this initiative costs you nothing. Every time you buy something online means the Club receives a donation, Please take the time to sign up and register.
Follow the link HERE It means over 4,000 shops and sites will now donate to us for FREE every time you use easyfundraising to shop with them. Did I mention it’s completely free for and easy to do!
Social Media
If you’re not following us, it’s time to see what we’re up to! With lots of fun posts and ways to find out what’s going on it’s the best way to keep up with all the latest club news. We’re on Instagram and Facebook. We’ll post all our latest ‘what’s happening at the club’ on there so head over, give us a follow and keep up to date!
As always, there’s plenty going on at the club from coaching for our Juniors up to events for the adults! If you’re not a member and interested then our memberships start from only £9.50 a month with special offers for juniors under 18 and discounted subs for 19 – 28yr olds! Get in touch now to see what will suit you. There’s something for everyone at FOSLTC.
That’s it for this week. A bit of a biggy and thank you for reading. Best that I stop now, so you can get down to the Club and enjoy!
Have a great week.
James Max
Club Chairman
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