LUSU Sports is launching an exciting pilot tennis activity programme in 2026, designed to help older people in care homes and community settings stay active, social and engaged. The programme will take place across Cheshire, Stockport, and Yorkshire.
We are inviting care homes and community organisations to partner with us to bring fun, inclusive tennis-based activities to the people you support.
As part of this fully funded opportunity, partner organisations will receive:
Our goal is to equip, empower and inspire organisations so that every person—regardless of ability—has the chance to move more, connect with others and enjoy the benefits of being active.
LUSU Sports will support and come alongside workforces to demonstrate and deliver activities together, building confidence, knowledge, skills and behaviour of the workforce to embed tennis activities into their delivery and offer.
The need for quality, inclusive, person centred activities and opportunities for older people to be active is clear.
Regular physical activity is strongly associated with better mental wellbeing and reduced risk of depression. For older people, this links directly to maintaining independence, delaying frailty, and staying confident and connected.
This means any change in activity levels – even small – has big system-wide implications for health, care and communities.
“Ageing is active, not passive.”
We have an ageing population, but inactivity in later life is not inevitable; it’s shaped by the opportunities we create and the stories we tell.
“Older people are an untapped ‘health asset’, not a cost.”
Tennis is great for building strength, agility and balance, naturally developing upper-body strength, lower-body power, coordination and agility. Our lesson plans will include ideas and activity that relate to seating, standing, cardio and movement which feature in games of tennis.
Tennis is inherently social and interactive – whether in doubles, as a group, or with a carer or family member. This matters because social connection is one of the strongest predictors of wellbeing in later life.
Tennis is fun and adaptable and perfectly aligns with the LUSU Sports mission to design physical activities without boundaries.
Tennis aligns perfectly with UK public health priorities and supports:
If your organisation would like to take part, we’d love to hear from you. Please complete the Expression of Interest (EOI) form with as much detail as possible so we can understand your setting and how we might work together.
Expressions of interest will open in April 2026. Following this, we will carry out a short due diligence process to select partner organisations, develop partnership agreements and prepare for delivery of the programme between April and September 2026.
Places in the pilot are limited, so we encourage interested organisations to submit their Expression of Interest as soon as applications open.
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