Bringing padel to your school
and university

Every other padel operator in the UK is chasing the same commercial real estate — retail parks, industrial units, urban leisure sites. We are not competing with them. We are accessing land they cannot touch, in catchments they cannot reach, with planning advantages they do not have. Our entire operating model — safeguarding protocols, timetable integration, special purpose vehicle structure, and governance expertise — is designed from scratch for the campus environment.

The reason schools and universities do not have padel courts is not that they do not want them — it is that every previous route required the institution to fund it, build it, staff it, or carry the risk. We have eliminated every one of those barriers. We cover all capital expenditure and all operating costs. In return, the school or university provides a 25-year lease of land and agrees to a shared timetable — pupils and students play free during school or university hours; and in the evenings, weekends, and holidays, the courts open up to teachers, parents, siblings, alumni, local residents, nearby businesses, social groups, NHS referral patients, and anyone else in the wider community who wants to pick up a racquet. The result is a decision where the institution has nothing to lose and everything to gain. We are able to make this offer because our founder’s deep ties to the City of London, combined with an established network of high-net-worth individuals, friends and family, benefactors, and institutional investors, give us direct access to the capital required to fund each facility from day one.

Schools and universities do not say no because of demand — they say no because they hit a specific technical barrier that nobody in the room can answer. The bursar asks about balance sheet treatment. The governor asks about safeguarding liability. The head of grounds asks about acoustic impact on neighbouring classrooms. The chair of governors asks about planning risk. If you cannot answer those questions in the meeting, the conversation dies. We are assembling three squads — Commercial, Campus, and Sport — each composed of specialists recruited to solve a specific barrier. Architects, planning consultants, acoustic engineers, safeguarding specialists, solicitors, fund structuring advisors, school and university governance experts, coaches, and programme managers. Every member of every squad went to school — and that personal connection to an institution is what turns a cold introduction into a warm one.

Each facility we deliver generates something no competitor starting from scratch can replicate: proven supplier relationships, tested safeguarding frameworks, solved planning precedents, refined construction programmes, and a live venue that the next head, bursar, or vice-chancellor can visit before they sign. Behind every individually branded facility sits a shared operating platform — standardised procedures, aggregated procurement, shared coaching standards, and a growing evidence base that compounds with every school and university. The first schools and universities build on their reputations as institutions that lead the way in sport — early adopters whose commitment to innovation gives their pupils, students, and communities access to something no one else yet has. The tenth inherits a proven playbook. The hundredth joins an ecosystem where deployment risk has been engineered out at every stage.