A YORK table tennis club are getting £4,995 to help them develop their coaching scheme.

Millthorpe Premier Table Tennis Club, based at Millthorpe School, are to receive the money from Sport England's Awards For All grant scheme. The club is an authorised centre of excellence for table tennis.

Mark Smith, the English Table Tennis Association's York-based regional development officer for the North, said that the money will be used to purchase equipment, including ten tables, and fund coaching work in primary schools in York and district.

Millthorpe are to set up a new section for players with disabilities and will be applying for a grant from the ETTA as part of their national programme to develop the sport among handicapped players.

Money would be used to pay for ETTA disabilities officer Judy Rogers to come to York to stage a awareness day and for a ten-week coaching course to be run in the city.

Dunnington teenager Alistair Domville, who has cerebral palsy, has been selected to play for the Yorkshire Seniors disabled team in a county match on September 29. He is also a fine bowls player, having been chosen to represent England at the Cerebral Palsy World Games at Gedling, Nottingham last month.

A Junior Schools' Table Tennis League is to be started this winter in York. It will be a two-a-side format playing to 11 points in a game. League matches will be held at Canon Lee School starting on Tuesday, October 30, from 4pm to 6pm. Details of how to enter can be obtained from school teachers or by contacting Mark Smith on 07977 230167.

Updated: 11:50 Wednesday, August 22, 2001