Tour, racket-athons,the big ones.
Some things only happen once a year, and they are the ones people still talk about in third year. Tour takes the club abroad over Easter; the charity calendar runs from the racket-athon in October through to SU charity week in March. Both are open to every member, whatever your standard.
Five days, two clubs, one very long coach to Stansted
Tour runs in the Easter break: two friendly fixtures against local clubs, one social every night, and an afternoon that is officially free but always ends up on a court somewhere. Open to every member regardless of standard — roughly a third of last year’s tour party had joined that October.
£185 all in: flights, five nights, both fixtures, tour kit. Deposit of £50 due 14 November.
Twelve hours, one ball still in play
The racket-athon is our big one: continuous play on court 8 from 8am to 8pm, members rotating in pairs, sponsorship by the hour. Three years running, over £6,000 raised for Mind.
Alongside it we run a charity doubles night in term two and put a team into the SU sports charity week.