2025 – 2026 Committee

Thanks to all those who stood for the new management committee again this year.

The 2025-2026 gang is:

President                     Rick Farrell

Vice President             Speed Gordon

Secretary                     Vacant but a late entry by Cato Bailey

Treasurer                     Nicole Gordon

Committee members

Vicki Barber, Frank Davey, Bernie Keating

Special thanks to Sandy Farrell for her efforts over recent years as Secretary. Sandy has wrangled a lot of the organisational aspects of the club which makes it much more straightforward to run. Sandy has made herself available to help with things when I stuff them up. We were looking for a new Secretary but we may have snaffled Cato Bailey to come onboard with that.

We have compiled a yearly calendar of tasks that need attending to by the committee throughout the year. This might be of interest to anyone thinking of putting their hand up for a committee spot should all of us have an accident!

Spring 2025 Comp.

The Spring comp has attracted six teams with a good number of reserves. The Grand Final is being played on Monday the 15th of December from 6pm. Good luck to Glenn Leggat and Mark Venables teams we hope you have a good tussle tomorrow night and well done on making it that far.

Management of Jack Martin Park

We have had no further news to report about Crown Lands plans for the management of the park at the moment. Responsibility still rests with Reflections Holiday Parks.

Maintenance and Infrastructure

Making our best efforts to catch up with Tiarne Cronk to do a walk around inspection of the facility to update her on what is happening with the tennis club’s needs.

Working Bee

We held a Working Bee on Sunday the 17th of August and I would like to thank the following members for a STERLING effort. Sandy Farrell, Vicki Barber, Bernie Keating, Sue Chancellor, Peter Muffet, Kel Arthur, John Hart, Pek Woods, Denise Channon, Greg Wiley, Angie Allen and Wayne and Deb Metcalf. All courts were given a comprehensive grooming, some court fencing wire was replaced and the clubhouse given a good thrashing.

Holiday Tennis and Twilight Comp

It has been decided to run the Holiday Twilight tennis again in January. We are going to run them on a Sunday afternoon/evening on the 11th and 18th of January between 5.30pm and 8 o’clockish depending on how big a tussle occurs on court. Rules will be the same and there will be good prizes for both the top points earners and the random draw winners.

Social Group American Tournament

One off event for the social players was played on the 7th of August. A play off between Peter Muffet and Frank Davey resulted in Frank being top ranked (must be the daylight that gave him the advantage) and Peter runner up – not that they were competitive at all. For the random draw we pulled a hat out of the cupboard and it was won by Deb Metcalf. The slightly out of date chocolates were won by yours truly but most of them didn’t make it out of the building so they couldn’t have been too bad.

Grant applications

Our Previous Cat 3 Club Grants application was unsuccessful and a new application was put up which was also unsuccessful. Another entry is being finalised for the December 2025 round and we continue to keep our fingers doubly crossed. Our application for the Local Sports Grant (for new seats) is still undeclared. We have also applied for the November 2025 Crown Land Improvement Fund (CRIF) which we will hear about early next year.

All we can do is keep plugging away at the grant applications. Rick and Sandy have put together a lot of information to make answering the grant questions more straightforward. The businesses giving us quotes are always very facilitating and swift with their updates.

New Club Constitution

The new club constitution will be tabled as a special resolution at a general club meeting on Tuesday the 16th of December at 6pm with the committee meeting to follow. A copy of the new constitution came by found on the website.

Social Tennis

As mentioned many times the Monday and Thursday mornings our mixed social tennis happens all year round - between 9am to 11am. People come and go as their time allows. No, we don’t lock people in and make them play the whole two hours. Although some of our group are masochists and play for 2 and a half!  All level of players are welcome and we encourage beginners to come and have a go and maybe learn some of the bad habits the regulars have picked! The Christmas Party for social group is being organised by Vicki Barber and is set for Monday the 15th of December down at Lions Park Beach after the mornings session.

Club Membership

For any prospective new members or those renewing their membership you can do so on the club website by paying with your credit card - this is once only online registration that you can use again and again in the future and it makes our job easier.

Online via your mobile phone or computer:

Search for “Pambula Tennis Club” in your search engine and click on “Website”.

Click on the ☰ tab near the top right-hand corner.

Choose “Membership” from the drop-down menu.

Scroll down to the membership selections and choose the one that suits you best.

You can also do a bank transfer to our Bendigo Bank account for the amount required - remember to include your surname on the description line.

Or you can pay by cash on Monday evenings when the comp is running.

See you around the courts.