Young Person’s Welfare Ambassador
Do you want to gain valuable new skills, level up your CV, UCAS statement and DofE award, all whilst supporting your tennis club to promote young people's voices and make tennis safe and enjoyable? If yes, sign up today to become a Young Persons Welfare Ambassador (YPWA)!
In 2023 we piloted the YPWA programme with children and young people across England, Scotland and Wales. We now have over 100 YPWAs in post and you and your venue can now get involved too.
The first 50 venues who sign up a YPWA between 1 October - 31 December 2025 will be entered into a prize draw to win one of ten £100 vouchers (one voucher per venue) of their choice to spend on their venue, either to support YPWA activities or other venue activity. Venues will also receive an LTA YPWA hoody for their young person, and an LTA Welfare Officer t-shirt. Sign up now using the links below!
Both the Welfare Officer and the young person need to enrol on the programme. This is done via separate links as below:
YPWA - Welfare Officer sign up
Watch this video to see what happened when British tennis star Harriet Dart joined one of our amazing YPWAs to talk about safeguarding in tennis and how children and young people can get the right support.
A YPWA's role is to:
- Provide a young person’s voice and perspective to promote safeguarding and welfare at their venues
- Raise awareness of safeguarding and welfare issues amongst members and players
- Gather feedback from young people to enable them to have a greater say in safeguarding discussions
- Provide an important link between venue committees and children and young people.
- Provide young people’s voices in discussions around safeguarding and welfare in their venue. They can provide important input in conversations and provide different perspectives.
- Work with their venue Welfare Officer to promote awareness. The Welfare Officer will support them and continue to act as the primary welfare and safeguarding lead at the venue. YPWAs will not deal with safeguarding issues.
The LTA is the first National Governing Body (NGB) to actively involve young people in a programme of this nature, directly integrating them in the safeguarding and welfare work within tennis venues and supporting them to be an important part of the process.
Are you aged 14-24 and interested in the becoming a YPWA?
To explore how you and your venue can get involved, speak to your venue Welfare Officer or a member of the committee or coaching team. If they are happy to support you as a YPWA, you can sign up following the links below.
Check out the document below to find out more about what the YPWA role is, the skills you'll gain and how to get involved:
Watch this short video to hear about the role from other YPWAs
Are you a venue Welfare Officer or representative interested in the programme?
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity to appoint a YPWA at your venue, please take a look at our document below to find out more about the recruitment process, what the role involves and how to get involved.