Coach Development Centres

Coach Development Centres (CDCs) deliver coaching qualifications and continued professional development (CPD) to coaches in a learning orientated environment.

The network of CDCs sits at the heart of a new delivery model for tennis coach education that was introduced in 2021. The new model will enable greater quality control, deliver consistency in coach education and make best use of expertise in local environments across the country.

Each CDC has exclusive responsibility to service a cluster of counties in England in delivering LTA Qualifications and LTA CPD, with Tennis Wales and Tennis Scotland delivering coach education in their respective devolved nation, allowing the development of needs based, robust, and localised workforce development plans. They will operate a ‘Hub & Satellite’ structure of venues across their area of responsibility, providing dedicated support to service the needs of the local workforce, and enable closer links to deployment opportunities at a regional level.

The new delivery model for coach education forms part of the LTA’s Coach Development and Support strategy, which aims to engage coaches with world class development and support opportunities, so they can achieve their potential as a coach, and deliver enjoyable on-court experiences for all. It supports the LTA’s vision to open tennis up to many more people, and it’s work to make tennis relevant, accessible, welcoming and enjoyable to anyone.

The Coach Development Centres are:

• Carnegie Coach Education at Leeds Beckett University
• Growing the Game
• inspire2coach
• Loughborough University
• Team Bath Tennis at University of Bath
• Ucoach
• University of Exeter
• Virtus Leisure
• We Do Tennis
• WimX
• Tennis Scotland in partnership with University of Stirling
• Tennis Wales in partnership with Cardiff Met University

Each CDC will be responsible for the delivery of courses within appointed counties - see below;

For more information please view our Course Providers page.