WHY OUR WORK IS NEEDED

The Problem

• Tennis has a reputation as exclusive: requiring club access, coaching fees, equipment, and confidence to join.

• Participation remains racially and economically skewed.

o Only 4% of people from ethnic minority backgrounds play tennis regularly.

o But 10% say they’d like to.

• Children in our boroughs face layered disadvantages:

o 38% of children in Islington live in poverty.

o 41% of Year 6 pupils in Hackney are overweight or obese.

o Hackney ranks 10th nationally for income deprivation among children and older people.