Mark Hewlett, CEO and Founder of Soul Padel and a leading advocate for democratising our sport, offers a personal view on the challenges facing the industry (and some solutions!)

Leading women’s British padel player Victoria Nicholas has been given an opportunity to maximise her potential with a sponsorship deal from ambitious padel operator Soul Padel.

UK-based Soul Padel has announced a new partnership with global sports brand Decathlon, kickstarting an ambitious joint programme with a summer padel festival.

In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Soul Padel ‘summer festival of padel’ will see two pop-up courts installed and supplied by PADEL1969 at Decathlon’s Stockport store and two at its Glasgow Braehead location.

A start-up padel operator has secured a six-figure investment to enable it to open a series of community-focused centres, initially across the North West. 

Established by former retail and healthcare executive Mark Hewlett, Soul Padel will use the funding to acquire suitable sites. 

A private investor has provided six-figure financial backing for a North West start-up padel operator to expand around the UK.

The anonymous high net worth individual is funding the Wigan-based entrepreneur behind Soul Padel, and will acquire suitable sites to open padel centres.

International hockey player Ben Davies, who was selected for Great Britain at the 1996 Olympic Games, is joining the board of Lancashire-based Soul Padel.

Ambitious new padel operator Soul Padel has agreed a deal with PADEL1969 to provide state-of-the-art courts for its future developments in north-west England.

Soul Padel’s founder Mark Hewlett has shared with HCM that the company is on the verge of attaining seed investment status through the UK government’s HMRC Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), facilitated by Sam Simpson from Founder Catalyst.

Soul Padel, an ambitious padel operator in the UK, has bolstered its attractiveness to investors by securing seed investment status.

The company, which has been founded by Wigan businessmen Mark Hewlett and Paul Lloyd, is looking to develop a number of indoor centres across the region that will open up the sport to the community.

Businessmen Mark Hewlett and Paul Lloyd have founded Soul Padel with a vision for a community padel facility in West Lancashire that includes a centre of excellence.

Leisure operator Soul Padel has set out plans to open five centres in the North West of England, in what its co-founder calls a 'race for space', with rivals also seeking expansion in the UK.