Viva Lewes Issue #153 June 2019

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Michelham Priory House & Gardens Indoor & Outdoor Events & Activities for all the Family! Sussex Day - Wildlife Wednesday Craft Activities - Father’s Day Picnic Homefront Weekend Archaeology Day Children’s Trails Family Games Fest Theatre Shows Face Painting Classic Cars - Pirate & Princess Day Upper Dicker, BN27 3QS 01323 844 224 www.sussexpast.co.uk Your all weather Summer Fun! Teddy Bears Picnic 17–23 <strong>June</strong> <strong>2019</strong> Support your local children’s hospice during Children’s Hospice Week by holding a Teddy Bears Picnic! Create special memories. Moments that Matter. For today. For tomorrow. For the Now. For more information and fun ideas for making your picnic one to remember, visit chestnut-tree-house.org.uk/teddybearspicnic Registered charity no 256789
êêêê Tennis a sport for life When I ask Luke Milligan what’s brilliant about tennis, he replies, “Currently, at the club here I coach kids who are 4 years old and adults of 75 plus. It’s a sport you can play, and love, your whole life.” Luke Milligan is the force behind Milligan Tennis, which offers all the junior tennis training at the Southdown Club. He’s been doing so for the last four or more years, but this isn’t his first connection to the club. Luke first played here when he was fifteen, and moved from North London to lodge with a family in Barcombe while he trained for the national training squad in Brighton. Playing at the Southdown was part of his routine, and he always liked it. It’s felt right to return, he tells me, “and Dave the Groundsman is still here!” Luke played tennis seriously for about ten years – he represented GB in the Davis Cup, and in 1996 made the third round of the Men’s Singles at Wimbledon. Then he turned to coaching. “I coached a lot of girls and women, especially, for the LTA National Tennis Centre.” Southdown is, today “very, very junior-friendly”, Luke says. He loves being part of what he tells me is a great community around the club. “It’s like an oasis: a friendly, safe environment”. And that’s certainly my impression, as we sit chatting in the clubhouse – today, Caffé Lazzati. People keep stopping to speak to Luke as they pass. One – Ellie – is now training to be a coach herself, and has returned to be part of Milligan Tennis, after completing a scholarship to Eastbourne College. So what coaching is available for young people interested in tennis, at the Southdown? “We train all ages” Luke tells me, “starting with Tots Tennis drop-in, for the 3s to 5s”. Mini Tennis on smaller courts caters for 5-8s (Red) and Orange, 8s-9s. Greens plus are on full-sized courts, for the 10s to 18s. The facilities are great – and a picturesque bubble – geodesic dome – covers two courts for six months of the year (October-March), so the classes can run, between 4 and 7.30pm on school nights, and on Saturday mornings, all year round. There are also Easter and Summer camps which are “very popular”, Luke tells me; “sometimes, fifty to sixty kids a day.” Summing up Junior Tennis at the club today, he says: “There’s this recreational, fun side. Then there are some kids taking the sport very seriously – representing the county, and country. But underpinning it all is this family feel – which works really well. Ellie runs the tots groups, and she’s brilliant at that. They all love her!” Luke says he’d like to start a Junior Club night soon – maybe on Friday evenings. Something to bridge the holiday camps, and the squads. I suspect he will… Charlotte Gann southdownsportsclub.co.uk milligantennis.com
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Viva Lewes June 2019 | No. 153
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THE ‘SPORTS’ ISSUE CONTENTS ©
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Spirit of the Rainbow We are starti
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Valuation Day Asian Art & Antiques
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