Essex Tennis

Registered charity 1209380 · since 2024essextennis.com·Essex·Updated 31 October 2026

Key takeaways

Essex Tennis's grants go only to clubs in its Advantage Essex network, and clubs apply rather than individuals, so a group that is not an Advantage Essex club, or a person applying alone, should not apply.
The grants suit a club that wants to develop tennis in Essex through one of the listed categories, such as mini tennis, facility enhancement or tournament support.
No grant range is stated, and the annual report gave no grants figure that could be read, so the application form is the place to check what sizes of request are possible; clubs should plan to contribute to the costs themselves.
Under AE Grants for Club Development, general club maintenance, court and floodlight renewal, and items vital to playing, such as nets, posts and perimeter fencing, are not funded.
The process is the Application for Grant Funding form, no timetable is stated, and nothing is said about how competitive the grants are.

Overview

Essex Tennis is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1209380).

Essex Tennis is a charity registered in England and Wales that exists to encourage community participation in healthy recreation by enabling people to play tennis and its derivatives, including paddle and pickleball, in the County of Essex. It offers grants to Advantage Essex clubs across categories including tournament support, facility enhancement, mini tennis, tennis education, club development and promotion, and technical advice costs. Its wider work also covers county competition, disability development and competition, junior training pathways, and school and university programmes.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Essex Tennis offers grants to Advantage Essex clubs to encourage tennis development in Essex. Grant categories include tournament support, facility enhancement, mini tennis, tennis education, club development and promotion, and technical advice costs. Clubs, not individuals, apply, and are expected to contribute to costs. Its wider aim is to make tennis and its derivatives available to everyone, from complete beginners to those playing professionally. Its work also covers venue engagement and support, facility investment, workforce development, county competition, disability development and competition, junior training and performance pathways, and school and university programmes.

Themes

Tournament support
Facility enhancement
Mini tennis
Tennis education
Club development and promotion
Technical advice costs

Geographic Focus

Priority: Essex.

What they don't fund

AE GRANTS FOR CLUB DEVELOPMENT only:
- general club maintenance
- court and floodlight renewal costs
- items that are vital to playing the game of tennis i.e. nets, posts, perimeter fencing
- organisations other than ‘Advantage Essex’ (AE) clubs
- individuals

How to apply

Clubs apply for funding using the simple Application for Grant Funding form.

Who can apply:

AE Grants for Club Development
- Clubs (not individuals) will need to make an application for funding.
- In all cases clubs are expected to make a contribution to the costs.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

Clubs are expected to contribute to the costs.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Essex

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Essex Tennis.

Essex Community FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £3.6M Essex Youth TrustFixed deadlinesGave £145k Active Essex FoundationRollingGave £859k Essex ScoutsInvitation onlyGave £35,825 The Essex and Southend Sports Trust (EASST)RollingGave £240k Fowler Smith and Jones TrustFixed deadlinesGave £543k Charles S French Charitable TrustFixed deadlinesGave £653k The Norman Garon TrustRollingGave £249k Eastern Counties Educational TrustFixed deadlinesGave £273k Walter Farthing (Trust) LimitedFixed deadlines

1 year of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 30 September 2025	£447,584	£264,809	—	Accounts for year to 30 September 2025

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.