North East Area

My table tennis journey began when I was eight years old in a youth club in Tamworth, West Midlands. After finding a passion for the sport, I went on to play for my county and region and entered many competitions up and down the country. I represented Draycott Table Tennis Club in Junior and Women’s British League and continued to play at Nottingham Trent University, where I also coached after graduation.

I am very excited to help clubs, leagues, communities, and partners to bring the new Table Tennis United Strategy to life and I hope that, with a collaborative approach, we can get more people playing the sport, increase the level of performance in the North East and continue to create a community that feels safe and inspiring.

The North East covers Cleveland, Durham, Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.

This includes the cities and towns of: Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham, Sheffield and Middlesborough.

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 North East Local Organising Group are:

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 North East:

• Sheffield
• Middlesborough
• Durham
• Northumberland