• By Sam Parton
  • Posted May 5, 2015

The Benefits of Sports Tours for Team Building

The sporting annals are replete with teams that have ventured into the backyard of their opposition on hostile soil and overcome the odds to prevail. The British Lions did so in 1997, seeing off South...

Top 100 Lawn Bowls Team Names
  • By Will Goy
  • Posted Apr 28, 2015

Top 100 Lawn Bowls Team Names

With the UK launch of Bare Foot Bowls in partnership between OpenPlay and Barefoot Sports we've started collating a list of funny names for bowling teams. Some of our favourites include 'Cami...

  • By Sam Parton
  • Posted Apr 5, 2015

Barefoot Sports & OpenPlay Partner To Bring Barefoot Bowls to the UK

Is lawn bowls becoming cool? OpenPlay and Barefoot Sports have partnered to give lawn bowls a shake, meet Barefoot Bowls. Say ?Lawn bowls? and the image usually conjured up is of a quintessentially...

  • By Sam Parton
  • Posted Mar 11, 2015

Five New Hobbies To Try In 2015

You might have ditched the New Year?s resolution already but there?s no reason why you can?t still pick up a new sporting hobby in 2015. Taking up a new hobby can be an expensive and time consuming bu...

  • By Sam Parton
  • Posted Feb 11, 2015

The Premier League Viewing Rights

So the Premier League announces a £5.1 billion deal for the television rights to broadcast Premier League matches between 2016-2019. This is an enormous leap of around 70% from the current &poun...

  • By Sam Parton
  • Posted Jan 21, 2015

Starting a Tennis Coaching Business - Interview with Dino Skeete

Starting a tennis coaching business (let alone any other business) is never easy. Meet Dino Skeete from Serious About Tennis, an accomplished LTA Level 4 Senior Performance, and LTA Senior Club C...

  • By Sam Parton
  • Posted Jan 18, 2015

The Joys of Organising Grassroots 5 A Side Football

If you have ever had the thankless burden of organising football, you are probably familiar with the following sequence of events in the lead up to your 5 a side football game:  96 hours befor...

This Girl Can - Sport England's Latest Sports Campaign Shows Balls
  • By Sam Parton
  • Posted Jan 13, 2015

This Girl Can - Sport England's Latest Sports Campaign Shows Balls

Sport England has launched a new campaign called 'This Girl Can' using the twitter hashtag #thisgirlcan. The goal is to address the notorious gender gap which has plagued sports participati...

Find Your Perfect Tennis Partner In London
  • By Sam Parton
  • Posted Jan 9, 2015

Find Your Perfect Tennis Partner In London

OpenPlay was originally launched to make it easier to find and book sports facilities in London such as football pitches and tennis courts. However a common question we heard at tennis venues was &quo...

Find Your Perfect Badminton Partner in London
  • By Sam Parton
  • Posted Jan 7, 2015

Find Your Perfect Badminton Partner in London

It might come as a surprise to some, but in terms of UK participation, badminton is as popular as tennis. Yet it receives a fraction of the press and recognition by comparison. It is also one of the f...

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