PLAYERS utilising the Tatura Lawn Tennis Club can now take to the courts all year round after the completion of the Lights for Kids Project.
Coming at a total cost of $206,611, the project saw the courts revamped over six years which included asphalt court resurfacing with synthetic grass in 2012, new high efficiency LED lighting installed on the four courts in 2017 and concrete courts resurfaced with synthetic grass in March this year.
Lights for Kids project manager, Alan Morse said, “The biggest problem I saw at the club was that during late autumn, winter and early spring there was virtually no tennis played. The committee then let me loose to chase grants with the aim of replacing our two unplayable asphalt courts, upgrade the two concrete courts and get lights installed on all four courts and the Lights for the Kids project was born. That was in July 2009.
“We had two failed grant attempts but then we got on a roll.
“We had grants from Greater Shepparton City Council, the State Government, Tennis Australia and a donation from the TAT200 committee, which made all of this possible. The tennis club was also able to raise $106,990, which is an extraordinary amount of money from a small club like ours. Thanks to everyone who helped and worked tirelessly to raise the funds and thanks also needs to go to the businesses that donated services to the project including Peter Kennedy (footings for the lights), Andrew Clement (metal cages for the light footings) and Brad at NL Drainage (for the drain on the southern courts).”
