{"id":191416,"date":"2025-06-17T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191416\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:19:08","slug":"we-won-the-tennis-lottery-club-in-yardley-chosen-for-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191416\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We won the tennis lottery&#8217; club in Yardley chosen for makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The restoration project was completed on 10 June, and local children are now training on the new courts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Seery said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got world class facilities now, it&#8217;s been surreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For the last five years, we&#8217;ve been struggling to stay alive. When I took this club over it had six or seven members, it was ready to shut down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I came here and I thought &#8216;yeah, I&#8217;ll have a go&#8217;, and can&#8217;t believe what we have managed to achieve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club has been supported by a number of different charities over the last few years including Street Games, Yardley Neighbourhood Network Scheme and Volunteer it Yourself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Through their help, and the court makeover, the club is hoping to cement itself as a community hub. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restoration project was completed on 10 June, and local children are now training on the new courts.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-191416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114698201550697885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}