Environmental sustainability
What impact does your club have on the environment?
In 2022 we at the LTA published our Environmental Sustainability Plan, setting out our ambition to secure a lasting future for tennis in Britain through positive action on climate change and leadership in sustainability.
We want to support the wider tennis community to be more sustainable, in our role as national governing body for tennis in Britain. In doing so we hope to effectively support tennis in Britain in the face of rising energy costs, and changes to the environment.
Does environmental sustainability feature in your overall club strategy or do you regularly discuss sustainability at your management committee meetings?
If not, why not start by stating your club’s position on environmental sustainability publicly. We have a pulled together a statement template as a starter, so please feel free to adopt, adapt and make it your own!
Download statement template
Now you’ve got a policy statement, why not turn this into action.
We’ve created an Environmental Sustainability Action Plan, packed full of ideas you can implement. Just like the policy template, make the plan your own, remove actions, adapt them or create your own.
Reducing energy consumption is now a priority for most organisations, including sports clubs and venues. The below guidance has been produced in conjunction with Carbon Control Limited to help venues better procure their energy and understand energy management, so they can make strategic changes and make a sustainable difference.
Tap or click on the below image to open the guide:
Are you at risk of flooding? Not sure?
Use these templates to help find out whether your facilities could be at risk of flooding and what to do in the event of a flood.
If facilities are at risk, these templates could help you develop a flood plan and highlight other strategies that will help reduce the impact of flooding.
The LTA are working in partnership with GMG, specialists in establishing buying-groups within the sports sector, to harness the collective purchasing power of the LTA Registered Venues to leverage significant discounts across a wide range of goods and services used by tennis clubs.
They can help you in specific areas such as with your electricity & gas (mains and LPG), solar installations, and you refuse collection.
Visit our LTA Buying Group website below for further information:
As the tennis community we have a huge amount of power to drive change to protect this sport and the conditions we need to play it.
This summer, we invited the tennis community to unite and act, demonstrating the huge impact we can have together and paving the way for other sports to follow.
The LTA teamed up with Pledgeball, a research-backed charity that engages sports fans, players and club members on environmental sustainability in a very accessible and easy way: individuals submitted pledges on behalf of their club via an online platform.
Pledges are simple, everyday actions that individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint.
The pledges are accumulated into an overall club CO2 equivalent savings figure and fed into a league ladder, which allows comparison and introduces an element of healthy competition.
We ran two rounds from June through to September and here is a list of our winners.
Round 1
1st place – Ilminster Bowling and Tennis Club
2nd Place – Barnt Green Sports Club
3rd Place - 10is Academy Ely
Round 2
1st Prize - Sutton Churches Tennis Club
2nd Prize - Bramhall Queensgate Tennis Club
3rd prize - Ilminster Bowling and Tennis Club
To everyone who has made pledges over the summer, thank you for your commitment to making our tennis clubs and communities more sustainable for us and future generations.
We are now working with Pledgeball to evaluate the initiative and will post new updates here and through your LTA venue newsletters.
Below you'll find some useful resources and templates to help your club be more enviromentally sustainable:
Introduction to Saving Energy - Guidance and Tips for Venues
Explore the below case studies to see how other clubs have followed our advice on environmental sustainability:
- Hoole Tennis Club - 'How Hoole is making a difference in the community with a green agenda'
- Halton Tennis Club - 'The phenomenal success of Halton Project Zero'
British Association for Sustainable Sport
BASIS (the British Association for Sustainable Sport) has provided expert help to sports clubs, venues, and governing bodies for over a decade – helping you to understand your impact, set targets and implement processes to improve your environmental performance.
Check out their website for all the latest news, guidance, resources, events and training on everything Sustainable Sport:
Sport England Sustainable Facilities
For guidance on embedding environmental sustainability into your facility development plans check out Sport England’s Sustainability pages which include a useful checklist, design guidance and a range of case studies from a variety of sports.
Buddle - Environmental Sustainability
Webinars
Below you can browse through some useful webinars with advice on environmental sustainability.