Funding & investment
Tennis Wales has a range of funding opportunities available, with investment into key areas of the game to help us deliver our vision for tennis opened up. You can view the opportunities available below, and contact a member of our team to find out more.
Following the impact and success of Tennis Wales funding pot 'Tiebreak', we are pleased to launch 2025 funding for applications. The aim of the fund is to change the game and transform who plays tennis across Wales.
The purpose of the fund is to provide financial support to Tennis and Padel clubs, venues and not for profit organisations in Wales who can support us in delivering our participation growth targets and to assist with diversifying the sport.
Fund Focus and Priorities
Tennis Wales are looking for partners to deliver new, innovative projects and activities to increase participation in Tennis or Padel across a wide range of new audiences throughout 2025.
The Tie Break Fund offers grants up to £6,000 for projects in Wales that intend to do at least one of the following:
- Increase women’s and girls’ participation.
- Increase children’s participation through new partnerships with voluntary and third sector organisations in the local community.
Reduce inequality through inclusion activities that support particular underrepresented groups of people to play:
- People with a disability
- People from ethnically diverse communities
- People from the LGBTQ+ community
- People experiencing social economic deprivation.
We are particularly interested in supporting projects that:
- Use Welsh language to promote, grow and deliver tennis.
- Are partnerships between tennis clubs or venues with local community groups or third sector organisations.
Will be delivered in one of these geographical areas of high latent demand and unmet demand for tennis:
- Blaenau Gwent
- Cardiff
- Ceredigion
- Gwynedd
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Powys
- Torfaen
- Wrexham
The deadline for all applications is 5pm, Monday 18th April.
If you need any further advice or information about the process, please contact Stuart Baker
The Tennis Wales Coach Bursary is a funding mechanism designed to support individuals looking to start, progress, or return to the tennis coaching workforce in Wales. With the backing of both LTA and CARDO funding partners, the bursary offers a pathway for aspiring and developing coaches to access training, qualifications, and development opportunities.
LTA Bursary Funding Supported by the Lawn Tennis Association, this funding focuses on diversifying the tennis coaching workforce.
CARDO Bursary Funding is available to all coaches facing financial hardship who are unable to meet the costs of coaching development after exhausting other support sources (such as through club support or Be Active Wales Fund).
Through this initiative, we aim to ‘Open Up’ the sport by removing financial barriers and placing coaches at the centre of their own development journey.
There are over 1,100 tennis courts across Wales, in all 22 Local Authority areas. The LTA, the National Governing Body for British Tennis, offer loan funding to eligible projects in Wales. Successful projects can access loan funding towards upgrading facilities, installing lighting, developing covered courts and building additional tennis courts across Wales.
You can read more about the LTA Quick Access Loans online or talk to a member of the Tennis Wales team.
The majority of people who play tennis in Wales, have their first experience at school. That’s why, in partnership with the LTA we offer LTA Youth Schools training, funding and equipment across Wales.
All primary schools in Wales can access free online teacher training, providing teachers with great ways to deliver tennis in school. Once trained, each school receives a £250 voucher to spend on either equipment for their pupils, or to pay a local LTA accredited tennis coach to come into school on a regular basis.
Secondary school teacher training is also available, providing teachers with an interactive training session on how to deliver tennis to pupils in secondary schools across the country. Read more about how to access training and funding for schools online.
Padel Tennis is a growing sport in Wales. It is a form of tennis that is easy to play, fun and extremely sociable. It is played mainly in a doubles format on an enclosed court about a third of the size of a tennis court and can be played in groups of mixed ages and abilities. Wales’ first Padel court was built in 2021, with new venues and courts being built year on year.
There are lots of investment options and models that can help develop Padel, with loan and grant funding available for various organisations and partners across the UK. If you’re thinking about developing a Padel Tennis facility, contact a member of our team at Tennis Wales, or visit one of the below LTA Padel pages to find out more.
We invest into a County Performance Programme and National Performance Programme to support Welsh players achieve their potential in tennis. Our County Programme offers regular training, competitions, kit & equipment offers and newsletters to 220 players across north and south Wales aged U8 – U18. Our Tennis Wales National Performance Programme supports 40 – 60 of Wales’ top tennis players with training camps, international trips and fixtures, individual player funding grants and clothing.
If you’d like to find out more about these programmes, you can head to our performance support page.