East Area

Welcome to the East Area; I’m Chris Bryden, your Area Manager

East Blog

NEW Ping Hub Set For Suffolk

During my previous Area blog, I focused on providing information about an exciting opportunity that had presented itself in the form of a newly established… Continue reading

June 16, 2025 | Chris Bryden

NEW Ping Pong Parlour In Hertfordshire

I mentioned in my February blog that I looked forward to sharing future opportunities with everyone in the East area over the coming months and… Continue reading

May 19, 2025 | Chris Bryden

Maximising Your Club’s Potential: The Benefits of Becoming a Table Tennis England Premier Club

Table tennis clubs are the backbone of our sport, providing a place for players of all ages and abilities to train, compete, and enjoy the… Continue reading

March 31, 2025 | Chris Bryden

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Latest news from the East
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Calling Club Welfare Officers in Essex

Active Essex are forming a new safeguarding steering group in the county and would like to hear from Club Welfare Officers within table tennis clubs.

June 18, 2025 | Paul Stimpson
Clubs

Anglo-Belgian friendship going strong at Essex club

Windsor TTC once again welcomed their friends from TTK Schoten in Belgium, with whom they have shared friendship bonds for 50 years.

June 16, 2025 | Paul Stimpson
East

Parkinson’s Table Tennis at Norman Booth Centre in Harlow turns 1!

A community based table tennis session supporting people with Parkinson’s is on the verge of celebrating it’s first anniversary. Parkinson’s Table Tennis at the Norman… Continue reading

June 11, 2025 | Chris Bryden

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Insight and Impact


All about the East network

I joined Table Tennis England in November 2023 to undertake the position of East Area Manager at Table Tennis England. I am really excited to be taking on the role and hopefully play a crucial role in developing table tennis provision across the east area.

I am particularly looking forward to working with clubs to increase participation and develop sustainable initiatives/programmes, leading to more people playing the sport. I’m looking forward to working with and supporting everybody connected with table tennis in the East area.

The East covers Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire and Nottinghamshire..
This includes the cities and towns of: Chelmsford, Colchester, Luton, Leicester, Bedford, Watford, Ipswich, Norwich, Nottingham and Northampton.

Local Organising Groups (LOGs) are formed of volunteers from the table tennis community and external partners and organisations who work with us to bring table tennis alive locally. They are there to provide support and guidance to the Area Manager and take an action-led approach to helping deliver the Local Delivery Plan. Click here for more information on Local Organising Groups.

The members of the East Local Organising Group are:

Name Club/Organisation Role on LOG
Sandra Deaton Former Chair, Table Tennis England Interim Chair
Jordan Tweed Chair, Loughborough TTL TBC
Liam Squirrell Head Coach, Matchpoint TTC Competitions
David Maddison Education Consultancy Schools Lead

Community Table Tennis Partnerships (CTTPs) are local geographic areas based around a town, city or small cluster of towns where the data and insight from across the sport and using demographic data and local partner knowledge tells us there are opportunities to develop the sport in those areas. These will then receive dedicated, focussed support from the Area Manager and Area Chair and the Local Organising Group and will work closely with local partners to establish, develop and sustain activity that achieves the priorities and goals laid out in Table Tennis United. Counties, clubs, leagues and other table tennis activity that exists in that CTTP space will be engaged to support the work that happens.

CTTPs will continue to evolve with the goal that activity set up is sustained by local clubs, leagues and organisations. This enables more CTTPs to be established across different parts of the Area Network that demonstrates potential impact can be made through the data, insight and information from the sport, societal data and local partners. CTTP work will make up a large proportion of the activity within Local Delivery Plans.

The following are the Community Table Tennis Partnerships for the East:

  • Leicester
  • Essex
  • Norwich
  • Ipswich
  • Luton