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BATTS was formed at Burnt Mill School in Harlow in 1994, after use of a small church hall became inadequate. In 2005, we had the opportunity to bid for our very own full time centre. Harlow Council had been forced to close The Norman Booth Recreation Centre for budgetary reasons. We prepared a bid and found out in December 2005 that we had been successful. Our new centre opened in June 2006.

BATTS have teams competing in the local Harlow league and BATTS have teams in the British League including a team in the Premier Division. BATTS regularly host weekend events such as: County weekends, tournaments, disabled days and school tournaments and runs a very successful Super league which attracts some of the best players in the UK and from overseas and also gives local players the chance to play against some of the best players in the country.

BATTS have also recently started running a series of summer hard bat tournaments. These have proved to be very popular amongst players of all generations and the hard bat tournament series will be further expanded and developed in the 2010/11 season.

BATTS employs a full time table tennis coach - Aad Kwakkelstein He has come from Dutch table tennis where he had a superb record working from grass roots right up to national level. He runs a coaching programme at BATTS and also works in schools and in disability table tennis. With BATTS full support, his mission is to help transform the way the club is run and the training programme. Batts is open for coaching, matches and practice on Monday, Wednesday & Friday from 4 – 10pm.

Further information about the coaching programme/ Batts membership and general information can be found on the BATTS website: batts.org.uk

Fusion Table Tennis is a South London community table tennis club based in Grove Park, Bromley, Kent. During the week the club runs training sessions, for all abilities, on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and on Saturday afternoons.

Fusion Table Tennis regularly attracts over fifty players to their sessions at the Haka Sports Complex. Players range from ages 5 to 70, from complete beginners to top national ranked players and attracts players from a very diverse range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds who come together to share their passion for table tennis.

Fusion has teams in the Premier, 1st and 2nd division of the British League and teams in the Women’s British League and Veterans British League. It also runs numerous teams in the local Bromley league.

Fusion also has a thriving junior club that attracts over thirty local children to its Saturday afternoon training sessions, many of our junior players are now nationally ranked and play in the Fusion Junior and Cadet National League teams. The Fusion junior coaching is led by John Dennison – who is a member of the Fusion Premier British League Team and Sule Olaleye ex African National Table Tennis Champion, Olympian and formally ranked in the top 100 in the world.

The club regularly runs local tournaments and over the last few years Fusion has run a summer tournament; The Fusion All-Star, with the aim to promoting table tennis across London and the South East by bringing together some of the best table tennis players in the UK and abroad. The last five tournaments have been a great success with local children from the local area playing alongside table tennis internationals.

Bevin Table Tennis Club is a junior and senior community table tennis club based at Ernest Bevin College in Tooting Bec. We are a multi cultural club and welcome players of all standards, from age 6 to 80, both male and female.

The Club runs a community open session on a Wednesday night from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Please email us at bevinttc@hotmail.co.uk if you are interested in coming along.

The club is also linked to Ernest Bevin College where Mark Smith runs a full-time table tennis coaching programme which has produced a number of highly ranked national junior players.