The LTA Tennis Foundation aims to inspire more people from all backgrounds to discover tennis, challenge the status quo to open the sport up, work collaboratively with existing charities and partners, and invest in people, programmes and places to play.

The charity’s focus is solely for the grassroots of the game, across all parts of Great Britain, with a particular focus on diverse and disadvantaged communities where the game is less well established.

The LTA Tennis Foundation is the result of the merger between  independent charity the Tennis Foundation, which was fully incorporated into the LTA in 2018, and the LTA Trust  - the LTA’s facilities investment charity responsible for providing loans and grants to venues to expand or improve facilities.

The Foundation is a loan and grant giving charity, which will work with partners who can deliver projects that match the charity’s objectives.

The charity will give loans or grants to help partners deliver new projects or to scale up existing work so they can reach a larger number of individuals. The charity will also sometimes support projects delivered by the LTA if the Trustees feel these meet the charity’s goals.

The charity is already investing in some key projects. As well as supporting facility developments at clubs and local authority sites, using existing reserves, the charity is committing significant funding into the joint LTA and government’s parks project, which will see hundreds of run-down tennis courts in local parks refurbished and fitted with new gate access systems to allow them to be booked and used more easily.

The Foundation is also supporting the delivery of tennis in schools by providing £250 worth of vouchers for tennis equipment to any school that signs up for LTA Youth – the LTA’s new junior programme created to help more children enjoy the benefits of playing and staying in tennis.

The charity wants to support more new projects in the years ahead, as well as

"Our priority will be to support the grassroots of the game, with a particular focus on diverse and disadvantaged communities where the game is less well established and the opportunity to get involved has been limited,” said Tim Lawler MBE, Chair of the LTA Tennis Foundation Trustees.

“We will work hard to build partnerships with existing charities and organisations to understand how we can best support them in the years ahead. We want to ensure we do everything we can to support the great work that is already taking place.”