Table Tennis
After a break of 6 months the Intermediate Table Tennis Group is up and running again but with a very different format.
We are using the guidelines produced by Table Tennis England in conjunction with the Highnam Community Centre Trust's special terms and conditions in order to play safely. These include cleaning touch points in the venue before and after our sessions, cleaning our equipment before and after, sanitising our hands frequently, wearing face masks when not playing and keeping social distance to the best of our ability.
We are planning to re-start on the first Friday after the 17th May ie 21st May.
We are allowed a total of 30 people in the hall we use from the 17th May. which is specific to that particular hall. Although indoor sport is allowed to re-start my understanding is that social distance guidelines still apply.
I have completed the Risk Assessment for re-starting. I was going to do three tables of singles, which is what we did last autumn. Last time we did one hour for 6 people and the second hour for another 6. This was fine as far as it went but it meant playing pretty much non-stop. We have room for a row of 7 chairs socially distanced 1metre apart. I was therefore going to propose that we allowed 13 to attend for 2 hours on a first come first served basis, with priority given to those that missed out the following week. Those seated would have to wear masks.
For this reason we cannot admit any new members into the group at present. However expressions of interest can be accepted for the better days we hope will be ahead and contact details can be put on a waiting list.