Corporate & events

The company day nobody dreads.

Padel is the rare team sport where the person who has never held a racket has a good time in the first ten minutes. That is the entire reason it has replaced the golf day.

Where this stands. We are not open. There is no building and no date, so nothing on this page is bookable today. What it is for is to hear from you early — companies that register now get first refusal on opening-period dates, and we would rather design the corporate side around real requirements than guess at them.

Why padel, for a work thing

Most corporate sport has the same problem: it sorts the room into people who are good at it and people who are quietly enduring it. A golf day is four hours long and unkind to beginners. Five-a-side divides a team by fitness within ten minutes. Bowling is fine and nobody remembers it.

Padel does not sort the room, for three structural reasons:

And because it is indoors, a date in the diary stays a date in the diary. Nothing is rearranged in February.

What we intend to run

Rackets and balls are provided for every format. Nobody needs to own anything or know anything in advance, which is the point.

The room afterwards

The half of this that most venues treat as an afterthought. A corporate padel session where everyone leaves immediately afterwards has done half a job — the conversations that justify the afternoon happen sitting down, not on court.

So the bar is not a vending machine in a corridor. It is a long bar with the courts visible through glass, room for a group that has just played to stay for two hours, and food that is worth staying for. More on what we're building →

What we can tell you, and what we can't

• Can: the formats above, that rackets are included, that it will be indoors in London, and that companies on the list now get first refusal on opening dates.
• Can't: the address, the opening date, or a price. All three depend on a lease that is not signed, and a quote we might have to withdraw is worth less than an honest "not yet".

If you need a venue for a specific date in the near future, we are not it, and we would rather say so now than take an enquiry we cannot fulfil.

Register an interest

Email soul@elpadel.uk with roughly how many people, roughly how often, and which of the formats above sounds closest. That is enough. You will get a straight answer about what is and is not possible, and a note the moment there is an address.

If you would also like a Founding membership for yourself, that is a separate thing and it is on the homepage — fifty places, free to reserve, and nothing to pay to hold one.