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The All Star Youth Tennis Scholarship Trust (“ASYTS”) was set up following a discussion on the annual Spanish Tennis Holiday to El Casco in Spain in 2006. The inspiration was Sebastian Wray, who had dedicated himself to the sport of tennis and the Wandsworth Tennis Centre from the age of 11 and whom the coaches, Ben Jackson and Ben White, felt could benefit from a higher level of training and development which would ultimately be an advantage to the wider tennis community of Wandsworth.

A Spanish semi-professional player and coach, who saw Sebastian playing, undertook to arrange a place at a Spanish Tennis Academy. After the project was underway, it was considered that the Trust should be a longer term effort to benefit all young people in Wandsworth who were dedicated to the sport of tennis and had shown the same exceptional commitment to the community. Pledges were obtained from several people of £500 each to provide the initial seed money to initiate the Trust and the administration was set up including the selection of the four Trustees. An invitation was issued to Sir Michael Jenkins to be the Trust’s patron, to which he kindly agreed.

A Trust deed was drawn up (by Davenport Lyons Solicitors) and formally signed and executed on 27 August 2007. Due to the current small size of the charity we are not registered with the Charity Commission. We have however been approved for Gift Aid Status with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs which will be applicable to all donations from the date the trust was set up (27 August 2007), provided a gift aid declaration has been obtained from the donor

All the people involved have contributed, and are contributing, their services and knowledge as volunteers to maximise the amounts that can be given as grants. This includes all the Trustees, our Patron, the solicitors who drew up the trust documents and Charity Commission application and advise generally, and the accountants who will be administering the formal aspects of the Charity. We would like to thank those and all others who have contributed money and support so far and hope that many more will contribute over the years.

We are delighted to say that we have made our first disbursement to Sebastian Wray who began studying at a tennis academy in Barcelona in January 2008. This should be the first of many grants, which we see as being one-offs to give young people who have shown promise and dedication to tennis an opportunity they may not have had otherwise to develop a career in tennis, whether as a playing professional or a coach. We also hope that those young people will return to Wandsworth Tennis Centre on a regular basis, to pass on what they have learnt to other young people in Wandsworth. We would be very grateful for contributions to the Trust from our fellow players at the Tennis Centre – please help us by sending a donation, using where possible the Gift Aid Declaration below, to: The ASYTS Office, 11 Amberley Court, London SW9 7HL.

(download the gift aid form)




All Star Coaching 2008 / 2009		The All Star Youth Tennis Scholarship Trust


	The All Star Youth Tennis Scholarship Trust (“ASYTS”) was set up following a discussion on the annual Spanish Tennis Holiday to El Casco in Spain in 2006. The inspiration was Sebastian Wray, who had dedicated himself to the sport of tennis and the Wandsworth Tennis Centre from the age of 11 and whom the coaches, Ben Jackson and Ben White, felt could benefit from a higher level of training and development which would ultimately be an advantage to the wider tennis community of Wandsworth. A Spanish semi-professional player and coach, who saw Sebastian playing, undertook to arrange a place at a Spanish Tennis Academy. After the project was underway, it was considered that the Trust should be a longer term effort to benefit all young people in Wandsworth who were dedicated to the sport of tennis and had shown the same exceptional commitment to the community. Pledges were obtained from several people of £500 each to provide the initial seed money to initiate the Trust and the administration was set up including the selection of the four Trustees. An invitation was issued to Sir Michael Jenkins to be the Trust’s patron, to which he kindly agreed. A Trust deed was drawn up (by Davenport Lyons Solicitors) and formally signed and executed on 27 August 2007. Due to the current small size of the charity we are not registered with the Charity Commission. We have however been approved for Gift Aid Status with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs which will be applicable to all donations from the date the trust was set up (27 August 2007), provided a gift aid declaration has been obtained from the donor All the people involved have contributed, and are contributing, their services and knowledge as volunteers to maximise the amounts that can be given as grants. This includes all the Trustees, our Patron, the solicitors who drew up the trust documents and Charity Commission application and advise generally, and the accountants who will be administering the formal aspects of the Charity. We would like to thank those and all others who have contributed money and support so far and hope that many more will contribute over the years. We are delighted to say that we have made our first disbursement to Sebastian Wray who began studying at a tennis academy in Barcelona in January 2008. This should be the first of many grants, which we see as being one-offs to give young people who have shown promise and dedication to tennis an opportunity they may not have had otherwise to develop a career in tennis, whether as a playing professional or a coach. We also hope that those young people will return to Wandsworth Tennis Centre on a regular basis, to pass on what they have learnt to other young people in Wandsworth. We would be very grateful for contributions to the Trust from our fellow players at the Tennis Centre – please help us by sending a donation, using where possible the Gift Aid Declaration below, to: The ASYTS Office, 11 Amberley Court, London SW9 7HL. (download the gift aid form)
ASYTS Patron Sir Michael Jenkins Trustees Benjamin White Benjamin Jackson Sean Molony Chandra Sekar Office 11 Amberley Court London SW9 7HL T: 0208-871-4706 F: 0207-978-8226 asyts@chandrasekar.co.uk Special Thanks to Bill Porter Peter Brimelow Karen Butterfield Chris Hastings Peter Smith Louise Maitland Paul Toolan (Davenport Lyons Solicitors) Dipak Shah (Nielsen’s Accountants)