Bexley Mencap’s Learning Disability tennis group’s summer season has just come to an end. The group have been playing each week at the Tennis Club since the middle of May. Almost 30 members have now had the chance to play tennis and we regularly have 15 players for our two hour session. Following on from our Kent Tennis Best Disability Programme Award in March, the group has made great progress.

This summer we helped organise a tennis festival at the club for Learning Disability Week in June. It was truly inspiring to see people from local day centres attending and receiving special LTA coaching and several have now joined the group. Four members also took part in a Learning Disability event at Bromley Tennis Centre as part of the Kent Championships. But there’s no rest for our ever popular tennis group because we’ll be playing indoors at a local youth centre each week, practising our serves and volleys and hope to return again next year