LTA Quick Access Loan Scheme

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LTA Quick Access Loan Scheme

The LTA's mission is to grow tennis and padel by making them accessible, welcoming, and enjoyable. Ensuring local communities have access to quality facilities is critical to attracting and retaining more players.

About LTA Quick Access Loan Scheme

The LTA's Quick Access Loan Scheme aims to provide interest-free loans to support venues investment in facilities, prioritising the installation and construction of covered courts.

Fund objectives:

  • Provide covered or floodlit playing facilities to encourage community accessible play all year
  • Retain and increase the number of participants at the venue
  • Offer and increase both non-members pay and play usage and coaching opportunities
  • Grow the numbers of adults and juniors on the coaching programme
  • Provide seamless booking of tennis courts and lessons through an online booking system

Key facts:

  • Interest-free loan
  • Open all year round with no submission deadlines
  • Decision made within 6 weeks of full application
  • Venues must be LTA-registered upon project completion
  • There must be an adequate security of tenure at the venue, with the applicant legally-able to borrow money
  • Online booking for courts and programmes is a requirement, through our online booking system
  • Venues will need to develop a satisfactory sustainability action plan
  • Venues will need to have in place an adequate sinking fund
  • Venues must be properly constituted, not for profit, inclusive and accessible (the LTA Tennis Foundation is unable to fund companies limited by shares)

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Partners and Sponsors

Partners and Sponsors

  • Sport England
    Active Partnerships
    Somerset Business Award Winner
    CIMPSA
    Somerset Chamber of Commerce
    CPSU
  • Disability Confident
    Somerset Skills & Learning
    Youth Sport Trust
    activity alliance
    Somerset Partnership
    Somerset County Council
  • Avon & Somerset Police
    Homes in Sedgemoor
    Macmillan Cancer Support
    Community Council for Somerset
    Spark Somerset
    YMCA Dulverton Group
  • Department for Work & Pensions
    EDF
    SAPHTO
    together team
    Somerset Cricket Board
    British American Football Association
  • Badminton England
    Somerset FA
    British Cycling
    Create Development
    Children in Need
    The Salvation Army
  • Lifeline
    Channel Adventure
    Nova Sports & Coaching
    Somerset Community Foundation
    Sports Coach UK