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Your Care To Play – Table Tennis Resources!

Welcome to your Care To Play – Table Tennis training guide, developed by Community Integrated Care. Here you’ll find everything you need to bring this inclusive, exciting sport in your care setting.

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We’d love to hear how this training impacts the people you support! Stay in touch by emailing Partnerships@CommunityIntegratedCare.co.uk or tagging Community Integrated Care in on social media!

Watch your 15 minute Training Videos!

Watch the full 5-part Care To Play video training series in order. In just 15 minutes, total, you’ll discover how to enable table tennis in any social care setting!

Getting Started

Find out how any household table can be transformed to play Table Tennis and why this game is so special…

Making it Inclusive

Understand the key principles to make Table Tennis a fantastic person-centred activity…

Enabling Play

Discover the fundamentals of how to play Table Tennis – including how to hold the paddle (bat) and the basic moves. You’ll also learn how to build the confidence and skills of the people you support, and creative ways to adapt the game to meet the physical and sensory needs of the people you support…

Try Table Tennis

Want to know how to play the real game of Table Tennis in simple ways? We’ll show you how.

Great Games

There’s more than one way to play Table Tennis. Discover five great games that you play with just a Table Tennis paddle (bat), a ball and everyday household objects!

Claim Your Certificate

Once you’ve watched the 15-minute training, register to receive your certificate signed by Paralympian Jack Hunter-Spivey.

Request your certificate

Explore the Impact and Find Inspiration

Looking for even more inspiration? Discover how this programme has already supported more than 200 care services and 1000 people.

Community Integrated Care’s impact report outlines the transformative outcomes in diverse social care settings across the UK.

Read the impact report

That's not all...

Need kit?

Community Integrated Care has teamed up with Tees Sport to offer special discounted starter packs, helping to make table tennis affordable and accessible to everyone!

You can request a £X table tennis starter pack, containing:

  • Two paddles (bats)
  • Balls
  • Roll up nets – which clip onto ordinary household tables

Claim your discounted pack here! (<-External Link – pop out))

Download our Best Tips Guide

Read some of our best tips for table tennis in social care in this simple guide. Get link from this off John

You’re Making an Impact

We’re excited for you to apply your Care To Play – Table Tennis training! We know that you will change lives – creating fun, connection and better health.

Thank you for participating in your Care To Play – Table Tennis. You’ve joined a national movement that’s inspiring how sport can empower better social care support.

John Hughes, Director of Partnerships and Innovation, Community Integrated Care

I’m proud to support Care To Play – it’s an amazing programme that makes sport more inclusive and fun for everyone. Well done for being part of it.

Jack Hunter-Spivey, Paralympian and Community Integrated Care Ambassador

Table tennis is so much fun. I love to play with my friends.

Stuart, supported by Community Integrated Care

Table tennis has become one of the experiences that the people we support often ask for.

Support Worker

Community Integrated Care is a beacon of inclusion and creativity. They’re setting the standard for sport in social care.

Table Tennis England