County Representatives

At our 2020 AGM, members voted to appoint the first group of County Representatives.

County Representatives present an opportunity for Pickleball England to increase focus at the local grass roots level promoting pickleball within their county.

Role Summary:

•Be a passionate advocate of the game and Pickleball England in your county.

•Respond to players and clubs seeking information in a timely manner so that it reflects well on you and Pickleball England.
Identify ways you can support clubs to attract and retain new players. Share best practises with clubs.

•Support new clubs. Having skilled players along to new clubs helps ensure that new clubs start playing the game correctly from the outset, providing coaching to new players takes pressure off the person establishing the new club.

•Ideally you will meet with clubs and play pickleball at those clubs in your county. The purpose is to promote membership of Pickleball England and to promote activities that are relevant to the club and players.

•Share your knowledge of clubs within driving distance and either establish inter club competitions or a regional league.

•Identify opportunities for funding applications for Pickleball England or the clubs within your county. Either take a lead or support the funding applications.

•Identify facilities that might be ideal for starting a pickleball club, with emphasis on areas within your county that do not currently have clubs within 40 miles of another club.

•Reach out to the Active Partnership contact for your region. Make sure that pickleball is listed on their website

•Help to organise events in your region, e.g. pickleball Festival, tournament, fund raising events.

•Provide information on what is going on in your county to the Regional Director so they can put it forward for inclusion in the Pickleball England newsletter. Ideally, we would like to make this quarterly.
 
•Identify potential advocates/influencers to promote pickleball/support Pickleball England

Meet our County Representatives

We still have a number of counties without representatives.  If you are interested, please let us know.  Email: info@pickleballengland.org

North West

NORTH WEST

CUMBRIA

Richard Wise

  

LANCASHIRE

Alan Coley &

Karen Farnhill

MERSEYSIDE

Jane Bridge

GREATER MANCHESTER

CHESHIRE

David Pechey

NORTH WALES

Kath Knowles

ISLE OF MAN

Chris Reynolds

North East

NORTHUMBERLAND

 

DURHAM

Matt Pickett

TYNE & WEAR

Sue Buchan

NORTH YORKSHIRE

 Dave Turnbull

SOUTH YORKSHIRE

Alison Bright

EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE

 

WEST YORKSHIRE

Jane Beaumont &

Michal Cicvak

West Midlands

DERBYSHIRE

 

SHROPSHIRE

Sue & Jeremy

Richardson

STAFFORDSHIRE

Gill Hogan

WEST MIDLANDS

 

WARWICKSHIRE

 

HEREFORDSHIRE

 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

David Tyler

WORCESTERSHIRE

Michael de Groot

 

East Midlands

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

 

LINCOLNSHIRE

 

LEICESTERSHIRE

Jane Strachan

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Pep Giuliano

NORFOLK

Chris Taylor

RUTLAND

 

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

 

SUFFOLK

Ben Thompson (North Suffolk)

BEDFORDSHIRE

 

South West

SOUTH WEST

BRISTOL

Roberto Rospo

CORNWALL

 

DEVON

 

SOMERSET

Peter & Margaret Hunter

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Kathy & Andy Horrell

WILTSHIRE 

ISLE OF WIGHT

 

HAMPSHIRE

Simon Farr

DORSET

David Bates
  

South East

BERKSHIRE

 David O’Brien

OXFORDSHIRE

Ian Wilson

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Peter Gibbs 

HERTFORDSHIRE

Christine Neyndorff

ESSEX

Trevor Hammond

LONDON

 

GREATER LONDON

David Bungard

MIDDLESEX

 

SURREY

David Bungard

KENT

Dave Wood

EAST SUSSEX

Chris Whincup