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In this newsletter: * Vote of confidence with secure funding * Blog: Behind the scenes at Milton Keynes * Membership * Plastic balls * Brian Halliday * Senior National Championships * World Championship of Ping Pong * Table Tennis England elections * Congratulations to . . . (As always, we will summarise the news and then provide a link to more information on each topic) |
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I am delighted to be able to start the first newsletter of the New Year with some good news. We have just heard from
Sport England that table tennis has been taken off ‘special measures’ and has returned to secure funding. For the past
two years we have been restructuring ourselves and the way we manage our sport to demonstrate to our partners and financial
supporters that we are a governing body which is ‘fit for purpose’. |
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We could not have achieved this without taking a long, close look at ourselves and setting clear objectives and targets.
In our latest blog, Table Tennis England Chief Executive Sara Sutcliffe looks at the progress made towards achieving the
key short-term objectives in order to establish the foundations for a longer-term 10-year strategy. |
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I am also pleased to be able to say that the Board is recommending to the AGM that there should be no increase in
membership fees for the next 12 months. This is due in part to some cost-saving exercises, but we also wanted
to bring in a ‘freeze’ on fees while we re-assess the members’ benefits package. |
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Following the ITTF’s decision to introduce plastic balls last year, we would remind clubs and leagues that, with effect
from July 1 2015, plastic balls should be used in all Competitive Table Tennis (as defined in Regulations) in England. |
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It is with great sadness that we heard of the recent passing of Brian Halliday. Brian had been a player, coach,
organiser, writer and life-long table tennis enthusiast. His love of and passion for the game never diminished.
He devoted many years as a volunteer at local, county and national level, and is perhaps, best remembered for the immense
contribution he made as a writer and promoter of the sport. Our condolences to his family and friends. Alan
Ransome pays a fitting tribute. |
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Tickets are now available for the Senior National Championships from February 27 to March 1, 2015 at the Redbridge Sport
and Leisure Centre in Essex. |
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This year elections will be held for the Elected Directors of Table Tennis England, namely Chairman, Deputy Chairman
and Treasurer, for the four-year period from 2015 to 2019. |
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Some elite players from the world of table tennis changed their rubbers for sand-paper at the recent World Championship
of Ping Pong. It brought a version of the sport to a wider audience through Sky television and captured the
imagination of viewers . . . who I hope will see it as encouragement to pick up a bat and ball and join a club. Our
Table Tennis England Board member, Colin Wilson, was on the Sky Sports commentary team, and here he explains something of
the difference and similarities between the game as played in the WCPP and table tennis as we know it. |
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. . . Andrew Baggaley, who won the aforementioned World Championship of Ping Pong after a weekend of sandpaper bat Ping
Pong in front of the TV cameras. |
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