As excitement mounts around this year’s upcoming Wimbledon Championships, tennis of a slightly different variety is very much on the minds of a local charity.
Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin is putting a call out to older tennis players – 55 or over – to join new walking tennis sessions to be held in Shrewsbury and Market Drayton, beginning this July.
The strawberries and cream launch of the sessions in Shrewsbury will be on Tuesday, July 9, from 10am to 11am, followed by light refreshments.
Sessions will then be weekly at The Shrewsbury Club, Sundorne, at a cost of £4.
Then there will be another strawberries and cream launch, this time for the Market Drayton sessions, on Monday, July 15, at Greenfields Lane, Market Drayton, 2.30pm to 3.30pm – again at a cost of £4.
The new initiative is part of a programme being rolled out in communities across England over the next two years – and is being launched with funding from the Lawn Tennis Association’s Tennis Foundation…
FULL STORY at source: https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2024/06/21/age-is-no-barrier-as-charity-unveils-walking-tennis-sessions/
