South West Area

My name is Amanda Leonard, I started as the Area Manager (South West) at the beginning of 2024.

I am excited to be working for Table Tennis England, the sport is powerful in its ability to engage people of all ages and backgrounds.  I am learning more and more each day about the sport, its structures and the volunteers who are its backbone.   I am committed to supporting volunteers and driven to increase participation, improve the quality of provision and develop projects which further support the player pathway.

I am particularly interested in widening participation of underrepresented groups including Women & Girls.  I relish any opportunity to build partnerships aiming to develop and deliver innovative projects which may bring in additional resources as well as producing models of good practice which can be shared throughout the area.

What are your plans for table tennis in your area?

I would love to hear about them.

Please get in touch if you feel that I can support you.

The South West area is made up of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire

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 South West 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 South West:

• Stroud District
• Plymouth
• St Austell

There is a goal of developing a CTTP in Bristol.