UK PADEL are delighted to announce that Evelyn Partners, the wealth management and professional services group, are the Headline Sponsors for the inaugural UK PADEL Schools and School Alumni Championships.

The UK PADEL Schools and School Alumni Championships will be held for the first time this September on the 28-29th, at Rocket Padel in Bristol.

Thanks to the vision and support of Evelyn Partners, this sponsorship will allow children from any secondary school in the UK to take part for free and experience playing padel at one of the best clubs and events in the UK.

UK PADEL believes padel is the best sport to engage the widest possible range of people to get exercise, stay healthy and build community.

Nick Baker, CEO at UK PADEL, said “We are so pleased that Evelyn Partners shares our vision for getting children active through sport. Together we want to use the impact of the UK PADEL Schools and School Alumni Championships to help to lift up the awareness of Padel as an easy to pick up, fun, dynamic and social sport and contribute to having a significant positive impact on the physical health and mental wellbeing of a broad cross section of the UK”.

Andrew Middleton, Group Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer at Evelyn Partners commented: “We are delighted to be sponsoring the inaugural UK PADEL Schools and School Alumni Championships. Our involvement in the tournament will help us support the next generation of this rapidly growing sport and we look forward to a really successful event.”

After launching the highly successful UK PADEL County Championship events in 2023, these brand-new events are inspired by the camaraderie of school competitions to create an unforgettable and recurring annual championships, engaging school age pupils and their alumni with padel up and down the country.

To help padel events to flourish at school age group level we encourage padel enthusiasts to reach out to their old schools and spread the word about this competition, and also sign up their teams for the School Alumni Championships.   This year the Schools Championships will be focused on secondary schools, but we are hopeful that as the tournament grows in future years we can offer different age group events.

Each school team consists of four to six players and we will be running Girls, Boys and Mixed events. The Schools event will be played on Sunday 29th September, with the School Alumni event played throughout the weekend.

For more information on the event please visit https://www.ukpadel.org/uk-padel-championships/ or contact Tournament Director Pete Jarvis  Pete@ukpadel.org

To register your schools interest in competing at this event please do that here

About UK PADEL

UK PADEL is a leading provider of Padel in the UK, with clubs currently in Buckinghamshire and soon Cornwall.   We also run and manage some of the biggest Padel tournaments nationally – including the UK PADEL County Championships, which when launched in November 2023, was the biggest ever Padel tournament to be held in the UK, with over 170 competitors from the length and breadth of the UK.

For further information please visit: www.ukpadel.org

About Evelyn Partners

We are a wealth management and professional services group, created following the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson in 2020. With £61.8 billion of assets under management (as at 31 March 2024) we are one the largest UK wealth managers and are also the seventh largest UK accountancy firm ranked by fee income (source: Accountancy Age 50+50 rankings, 2023).

We have a network of offices across 29 towns and cities in the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands. Through our operating companies, the Group offers an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

Our purpose is ‘to place the power of good advice into more hands’, and we are uniquely well-placed to support clients with both their personal financial affairs and their business interests. Our personal wealth management services include financial planning, investment management and advice, personal tax advice and, through Bestinvest, an award-winning online investment and coaching service for self-directed investors. For businesses, our wide range of services includes assurance and accounting, business tax advice, employee benefits, forensic advice, fund administration, fund governance, recovery and restructuring and transaction services.

For further information please visit: www.evelyn.com