The Hills Tennis Association (HTA)

Tennis SA is presently contacting clubs to encourage them to register for Tennis Connect rewards.  This year is likely to be the last time Tennis Australia offer this opportunity and it would be fantastic to have all our clubs take advantage of it.

Clubs will receive $5 for every member who held a membership at their club (as their primary place of play) between 1/7/2015 – 31/5/2017 who creates a Tennis Account, if they satisfy the following criteria:

• Offer online memberships through My Tennis
• Make membership packages available online (at least one must still be available as at 31 May 2017)
• Activate online payment gateway
• Provide organisation bank details
• Accept the TennisConnect Rewards Terms & Conditions

Setting it up is easy and there is an ‘invitation’ that can be customised by the club and sent to members asking them to ‘join tennis’ and support their fundraising efforts.

http://support.tennis.com.au/articles/rewards-tool/

So far in the HTA these clubs are qualified to receive the reward:

Crafers, IBCG, Littlehampton, Mt Barker, Onkaparinga, Piccadilly, Stirling

I’m happy for clubs to contact me if they need assistance.

If you could promote to and encourage your clubs to take up this offer, that would be great.

Cheers

MT

Dear Clubs

1.       Quick reminder – AGM is Mon 3^rd (tomorrow night)

2.       Two delegates from each Club please – need quorum to avoid deferral of meeting

3.       Meet Marie-Therese from Tennis SA

4.       AGM – Secretary/President election, Farewells.

5.       New Treasurer needed – please nominate someone (or yourself) with an interest in MYOB, enthusiasm more important than experience.

Meeting will be as fast & productive as possible but those who would like to are welcome to stay on afterwards for a chat, further discussion etc.

Saturday, 25^th March 2017

All players to bring a plate of afternoon tea

Anembo Park, Littlehampton: 

Traditional Women

Div 1:  Stirling v Summertown              Courts 3 & 4

Div 2:  Uraidla v Lobethal                      Courts 7 & 8

Traditional Men

Div 1:  Stirling Blue v Summertown      Courts 1 & 2

Div 2:  Uraidla v Aldgate Red                 Courts 5 & 6

Div 3:  Littlehampton Blue v                 Courts 11 & 12

                 Littlehampton White

** Courts 9 & 10 at this venue will be allocated according to need on the day by the SAC rep in attendance. Please speak with them to negotiate.

Mount Barker Rec Centre:

Traditional Women

Div 3:  Hahndorf v Piccadilly                 Courts 4-6

Traditional Men

Div 4:  Hahndorf v Mt Barker                Courts 1-3

Onkaparinga Balhannah Oval:

Doubles

Div 1:  Ironbank Cherry Gardens           Courts 1-3

                 v Summertown

Div 2:  Summertown                               Courts 4-6

                 v Littlehampton

Anyone interested in the future of the HTA Doubles Competition is urged to attend the meeting coming up on the 25^th March, 7.30pm at the Haus in Hahndorf.

We want to get as many of the people who have played Doubles (either current and/or past players) to attend and to have input and to toss around ideas and suggestions about how we can make it better. While emailed suggestions are very much welcomed, emails don’t allow for the two-way on-the-spot conversations that are likely to trigger additional ideas and suggestions. So we are URGING all doubles players to attend this VITAL meeting. Don’t leave it to others alone to decide.

Suggestions so far include:

·         Moving to a split gender competition 4 Men or Women in a team. Three sets would be played each week. If possible schedule home matches together.

·         Move the competition to a Friday night – this would provide cooler conditions and would allow players to play both Fri & Sat competitions if they wanted to. May also allow people with Saturday work commitments to play.

·         Move to a 2 Men 2 Women team format

All attendees at the meeting will be given an opportunity to express feelings about how this season has gone, and will be encouraged to offer suggestions (no matter how small) on how we can move forward. Your opinion matters! If you don’t attend, then you won’t be able to actively contribute to a solution.

This is not an optional meeting – it’s a really important time to demonstrate that doubles players in the Hills want to actively contribute to the future of the competition.

Please email your ideas beforehand to senior.activities@hta.asn.au. That way, the SAC can collate suggestions and have them ready to present as starting discussion points at the meeting.

Apologies can also be emailed to the above address.

Senior Activities Committee

Dear Clubs

TA/TSA have asked that the attached information be passed to each Club and Club Coach.

A great way to build your Club player numbers is to have your Club Coach work via these programs with your local Schools to draw in new junior players to your Club, senior players and parents will typically follow their children and in turn help staff your Committee and senior player list.

If your Club needs more players or more Committee members or is looking to grow, please consider getting involved.

Senior Semi Finals – Saturday 11^th March 2017

Traditional

Div 1 women:

Div 2 women:

Div 3 women:

Div 1 Men:

Div 2 Men:

Div 3 Men:

Div 4 Men:

Doubles

Div 1 Doubles:

Div 2 Doubles:

Venue Summary

There will be a meeting on the 27^th March at 7.30pm at the Haus to discuss the future of the HTA Doubles Competition.

We are looking for input from ALL doubles players and interested parties and would like to see as many of these players attend as possible. Unfortunately Senior Activities Committee does not have a simple solution to declining numbers and the big difference in the standard between teams in the Doubles competition. It is the players who play doubles on a weekly basis who have the most insight into the competition and we’re hoping they (ie YOU!!) may be able to come up with some ideas “outside the box” to try to keep this historically wonderful competition going.

Mark the date in your diary now! Email any useful suggestions through beforehand to senior.activities@hillstennis.net.au.

You can make a difference – please attend!!

Senior Activities Committee

Good Morning all,

As most of you would be aware, applications for the following Office for Recreation & Sport Grants Program are currently open:

·         Active Club Program

·         Community Recreation & Sport Facilities Program

·         Female Facilities Program.

As part of the application process, clubs need either a Land Owner Consent Form or Council Support Form signed by Council staff.  If your club is submitting an application to any of these funding programs, please read the instructions below:

FOR LAND OWNER CONSENT: Please send your completed grant application to myself by Thursday 6^th April.   Once I’ve had a read through & discussed with our Property Team, we will complete the form & send directly to the Office for Recreation & Sport on your behalf.

FOR COUNCIL SUPPORT: Please send your completed grant application to myself by Thursday 6^th April.  Once I’ve had a read through, we will complete the form & send directly to the Office for Recreation & Sport on your behalf.

Please note that Council will only send the consent / support forms to the Office for Rec & Sport, you are responsible for submitting your grant application.  Unfortunately, due to the number of applications that we have to review, we will not be able to send forms back to you in time for submission.  Just mark the form in the application with ‘Will receive directly from Council”.

If you have any questions regarding this process, please feel free to give me a call on the numbers listed below.

More information on the grants can be found here:  http://www.ors.sa.gov.au/funding

&…

The Office for Rec & Sport are holding an information session for three grant program, details are:

Office for Recreation and Sport, Ground Floor Conference Room (G2-G3), 27 Valetta Road, Kidman Park
Wednesday 1 March
6:00pm – 8pm
Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/office-for-recreation-and-sport-11136159236

Finally, if your club’s committee has recently had an AGM, & office bearers have changed, it would be great if you could send through your clubs new contact details to me, thanks!

Kind regards,

Renee

Renee O’Connor – Sport & Recreation Planner | Built & Natural Assets (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri)
Adelaide Hills Council
visit me at: 63 Mount Barker Road, Stirling SA 5152
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