What your Membership Pays For

NLTC is responsible for the ongoing maintenance and development of the facilities and part of your membership fee is used to ensure that we continue to have great courts and lights to play on and under. 

Another portion of your fee goes to Tennis NZ and Nelson Bays Tennis Association in order to support development of tennis both nationally and across the region. You can see this in action with the likes of our local junior and senior tournaments, development squads and nationally with the roll out of programmes such as Tennis Hot Shots, Cardio Tennis and Tennis Xpress.

Our club is responsible for:

• Court surfaces and replacement costs (~ $30k per court, x8 courts)
• Ongoing court grooming including sand removal/dispersal, moss mitigation
• Net repairs/replacements
• Fencing repairs
• Light replacements
• Electricity at courts
• Lease to NCC
• Rent for access to squash facilities
• Insurance
• Book-a-court, Stripe, Light maintenance, Xero and website fees
• NBTA fees
• Event costs
• Ongoing incidentals

As you can see, all of this can add up quickly. Our committee has been mindful to keep our membership fees low, while ensuring we can continue to cover our commitments. Additional fundraising and grants are required for our facility replacement costs. 

Being a member of NLTC brings the following benefits:

• Fantastic facilities
• Access to great professional tennis coaching programmes
• Opportunity to play interclub tennis for NLTC
• Fun social events
• Life-long friendships.

With the aim of making tennis as accessible as possible, we have many membership options available. If you have a unique situation to discuss, please contact us and we can discuss options.

Our playing year runs from 1st October to 30th September. If you are joining the club from January onwards, we offer a discount on fees. Please contact us for more information on the discount that is applied.