East Area

I joined Table Tennis England in November 2023 to undertake the position of East Area Manager at Table Tennis England. I am really excited to be taking on the role and hopefully play a crucial role in developing table tennis provision across the east area.

I am particularly looking forward to working with clubs to increase participation and develop sustainable initiatives/programmes, leading to more people playing the sport. I’m looking forward to working with and supporting everybody connected with table tennis in the East area.

The East covers Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire and Nottinghamshire..

This includes the cities and towns of: Chelmsford, Colchester, Luton, Leicester, Bedford, Watford, Ipswich, Norwich, Nottingham and Northampton.

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 East 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 East:

• Leicester
• Essex
• Norwich
• Ipswich
• Luton