The investors, builders, and operators who fund the network and get each facility from signed heads of terms to opening day
Every new padel facility relies on a chain of people who put up the capital, deliver the build, and run it once the doors open. The Commercial Squad brings together the capital partners who fund each facility, the delivery partners who build it, and the operating partners who bring it to life every day.
Just as importantly, members of the Commercial Squad share best practices with each other — so you can pick up tips, shortcuts, and lessons learned from others who are further down the line on funding, building, and operating padel facilities at schools and universities across the UK.
Investors
Tax-efficient, asset-backed returns from a structurally superior route to market.
Provide the capital that funds each facility and back the network as it scales across schools and universities.
Compare notes with Investors →Benefactors
A visible, lasting legacy tied to a named facility on a school or university campus.
Make a philanthropic contribution towards a named facility at a school, university, or community of meaning to you.
Compare notes with Benefactors →Fund-raisers
A compelling, evidence-backed investment thesis to take to market.
Introduce investors and benefactors to The Padel Squad, and help structure the financing of each facility.
Compare notes with Fund-raisers →Site Managers
A repeatable, ten-month programme with clear milestones, proven suppliers, and network-wide learning.
Take each site from signed heads of terms through planning, build, and handover to opening day.
Compare notes with Site Managers →Suppliers
Predictable, recurring order volume across a growing national network.
Supply courts, equipment, fit-out, technology, or services to facilities across the network on standardised terms.
Compare notes with Suppliers →Subject Matter Experts
A steady pipeline of specialist advisory work across a national network of school-based projects.
Provide specialist expertise — legal, planning, structural, sports, safeguarding, tax — on a project-by-project basis.
Compare notes with Subject Matter Experts →Club Managers
Autonomy to run a high-quality facility with the backing of a national operating platform.
Run a Padel Squad facility day to day — coaching, programming, members, finances, and community.
Compare notes with Club Managers →Community Managers
A defined audience strategy with dedicated budgets for each revenue-generating segment.
Build and grow the player community at each facility — pupils, students, families, alumni, local players, and corporate users.
Compare notes with Community Managers →Partners and Sponsors
Sustained, high-visibility local exposure across 30,000–40,000 annual player visits per facility.
Sponsor courts, programmes, kit, or events at facilities across the network — locally, regionally, or nationally.
Compare notes with Partners and Sponsors →The best way to learn how to fund, build, and run padel facilities at schools is to talk to others who are already doing it.
Join the Commercial Squad to compare notes with others doing the same →