Meet The Team

I grew up in Warwickshire and spent time in Berkshire and Lincolnshire before moving down to Sussex in my mid-twenties to take up a job in Lewes. That was some 35 years ago. I joined Southdown Sports Club as my boss was a tennis nut and he introduced me to the club. Initially I lived in Brighton and moved to Lewes in 1990 and have been a member of Southdown since. For a few years I was tennis chair and, from 2011-2021, I was chair of the whole club which provides tennis, hockey, squash and netball facilities.

I have been chair of Tennis Sussex since March 2022.

I have always enjoyed the physical exercise and social enjoyment of tennis and try and play as much as can which usually means 2 or 3 times a week. I particularly enjoy doubles and am fortunate to play for the O60s county team which I thoroughly enjoy, particularly visiting and meeting players from other counties.

 In my day job I am a director of Enplan, a planning, landscape and environmental consultancy with offices in Lewes and Milton Keynes. I set up the business with my co-director in 2000.

 My wife, Sue, is an accomplished player and I’m pleased to say we still manage to play mixed doubles together!

I am a qualified chartered accountant with 40 years experience in finance. I have been a board member of a number of public companies and I am currently a non-executive director of three public companies and chairman of one private company. I enjoy working with small and motivated teams.

I have lived in Sussex since 2000 and played tennis regularly until a few years ago.

Since the age of eight, I’ve played tennis for Sussex, captaining the Ladies o35’s team, obtaining a national title then retaining it the following year. However, since stepping off the Tennis court, I’ve become LTA councillor for Sussex since 2019, and assumed the role of the Deputy Chair of the South East Regional Forum, and currently I lead the LTA development group on Padel Tennis.

I was the National GB Quad coach with a successful stint at the Beijing Paralympics with a gold and a bronze medal, with my team winning World Team Cup. In 2009, I was named Coach of the Year at the National Wheelpower Awards.

Along with tennis, my sporting efforts have now taken me onto the Padel Court, where I am now a part of the Seniors GB squad.

I still coach tennis as well as teaching clay pigeon shooting. Outside of sport, I work as Head of Operations at an online gaming company.

Alison Cash is looking after our Wimbledon tickets and also manages the Tennis Sussex staff.

Alison has a background in running training courses, software testing, and ran a small database management company for 20 years and is now retired. She has two boys who both started playing tennis as children and loved playing for Sussex. They both still play, with Jamie enjoying club tennis and Julian on the professional circuit. Alison is also a qualified referee.

I am a grass roots guy, delivering affordable and accessible tennis in Sussex. In 2017, I helped establish Queens Park Tennis Club as the first independent, self-funded parks club in Brighton & Hove, a model followed successfully by several clubs in the city. In 2020, I founded St Ann’s Tennis in central Brighton & Hove, now a flourishing community club, and winner of the Tennis Sussex 2023 Parks Venue Of The Year award. I serve on the Brighton & Hove Parks League LTA committee, and coach red ball at the Crew Club in Whitehawk. I have a background in sports TV and marketing, working with IMG, UEFA, British Rowing, the Premier League and Formula E.

Having worked at the LTA as the lead for volunteering for 8 years, I’ve joined Tennis Sussex because of my passion for grassroots and community tennis. I strongly believe sport should be available for all, and I’m motivated to make tennis inclusive.

I head up volunteering at Mental Health Innovations which powers Shout and The Mix, and have volunteered most of my life including at the Samaritans. I’m also a trained therapeutic counsellor.

Having moved to Sussex a few years ago, I now play most of my (very amateur!) tennis at Hove Park. I regularly play in the Local Tennis Leagues, and I’m a committee member of BLAGSS (LGBTQ+ tennis group).