Chairmans Annual Report 2025

“We are all fortunate to be able to participate in a sport that we all enjoy and we trust that you have all had good matches.

We thank you all for your continued support and we welcome any new members. Last year we had 208 ladies entered for the vets and 126 ladies entered for the super-vets so it’s good that both tournaments are still well supported.

The leagues do take many hours to organise and it is all done on a voluntary basis. We now have the electronic entry forms, which have helped enormously, and hope that you’ve all found them easy to use.

Could we remind players to read the rules and we do urge you to arrange your matches in good time to avoid late submissions. A few ladies have made comments about struggling with communication to get matches arranged and we are aware that not everyone regularly checks their emails, so it may be worth a Whatsapp message or even a phone call.

Could you also make sure that any emails related to the tournament are sent to the correct email address so that they can be dealt with promptly.

 It’s unfortunate that there were 25 couples that had to withdraw this year mainly due to injuries, which has led to some players not getting many matches in their league, which is unfortunately unavoidable.

I take this opportunity to thank Beulah Sell and Alison Trafford, our vets and super-vets tournament directors, for all their hard work and also to Val Noble who has been in the background for her advice and support to Beulah since her retirement as vets tournament director last year.

There are no changes to the committee this year and I thank them all for doing such a great job. As mentioned, Beulah and Alison as tournament directors, our very efficient Secretary Liz Fazackerley, Barbara Williams for running our website and sending out all the polite reminders to you all, and Julie Turner completing her first year as treasurer, also a thank you to Lynn Norwood for remaining in the background to help guide Julie.

Of course, there is also a lot of organizing to prepare for this evening so on behalf of the LVLTA thank you all on the committee for all your hard work.

Some of you may have noticed our new mantra on our website so that we can remind players what we are about…… “Run By Volunteers For THE LOVE OF TENNIS And Supporting Your Chosen Charities.”

This year we will be donating £300 each to 3 charities, LOROS, RAINBOWS and

Leicester Myeloma Patient Support. Very sadly Mandy Lane a player from David Lloyd passed away earlier this year. We send our condolences to her family and friends.

 Anne thanked everyone for attending the dinner and AGM and Jeremy Trafford for taking the photos this evening.

Again, the photo albums were available for anyone who wished to take away any of the photos from the past 35 years.

Chairmans Annual Message 2022

Chairman’s report

Good evening ladies and a big welcome to our 32^nd LVLTA AGM, dinner and prize giving.

It’s so lovely to see so many of you and hope you all enjoy your meal and the wine provided. There are charity nomination forms on your tables and ask you to fill in your choice for the draw later.

Before we eat can we have a moment of reflection……

While we are here enjoying the pleasures of being together in celebration let us give thoughts to those who are experiencing the terrible atrocities of war in Ukraine, their suffering and fear is unimaginable. We must be grateful for the privileges we enjoy.

We hope you’ve all enjoyed your meal, and I take this opportunity to say a big thank you to John and his team for looking after us so well again.

We’ve certainly had an extraordinary 2 years, sadly we missed celebrating our 30^th anniversary and had to hold that meeting via zoom. So here we are back at the Cricket Club and it’s really good to see so many of you. Covid is still with us but thanks to the amazing scientists we can hopefully learn to live reasonably safely with it. Sadly some ladies had to drop out today and we wish them well.

We are lucky to have a sport that we can play outdoors that has enabled us to continue relatively  safely and we trust that you have all had good matches, we thank you all for your continued support and welcome to new members.

Last year we had 98 entries for the super vets and 222 for the vets which we were pleased about. The leagues do take many hours to organise and so a HUGE thank you goes to Alison and Val for this. As always we do urge you to arrange your matches in good time to avoid late submissions.

I would like to thank all the committee who continue to do a stirling job, as already mentioned Val Noble and Alison Trafford for their hard work. Liz Fazackerley who took over from Lizzie Harris as another very competent secretary, Barbara Williams for her skills running our website and Lynn Norwood our treasurer and of course their roles in helping to successfully organise this evening.

This year we will be donating £300 each to 3 charities of your choice and we will be collecting your nomination forms and will do the draw before the prize giving.

Our regular photographer Steve has unfortunately succumbed to Covid but we are very pleased that Jeremy Trafford has kindly offered to help us out so thank you Jeremy and hope you appreciated Steve’s menu choice!  This year the prizes will be brought to your tables and Jeremy will come to you to take photos.

Lynn will now do the treasurers report.

I’m delighted to introduce our speaker tonight, Alis

Chairmans Annual Report 2021

Hello Ladies,

Ladies were welcomed to the 31st LVLTA AGM.

The AGM, although scheduled for April 29th at the Leicestershire County Cricket Club, was cancelled for the 2nd time, however, with a relaxing of the rules, the committee was able to meet in person. LVLTA members had been invited to join the AGM via zoom but none had accepted.

Last year we had 194 entries for the winter vets tournament, however, due to the
extraordinary circumstance causing lockdowns, and therefore no tennis , the wise decision to cancel the tournament was taken and all members were made aware that their entries will be carried forward unless anyone preferred a refund.
There were 112 entries for the Super Vets . 50 players withdrew due to the pandemic.
Winners and runners up all received their prizes.

At the zoom AGM in November the committee co-opted Liz Fazackerley as secretary and this appointment needed to be ratified by members. Julie Turner has proposed and Catherine Haworth has seconded.
The committee were thanked for all their hard work, Val Noble and Alison Trafford for
organizing the tournaments, Liz Fazackerley, our secretary, Barbara Williams for the website and Lynn Norwood, our treasurer.

The conclusion was to remain safe, enjoy lots of tennis ,and hopefully see lots of members next year, when all being well we can celebrate our 32nd AGM along with our dinner and prize giving.

Anne Lucas

Chairman