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Grow your own business while growing the game of pickleball through fun and friendly coaching.

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Why a franchise?

Be your own boss, supported by us

Gain the freedom to manage your own business, supported by comprehensive training and ongoing support from the Pickle Pops team.

Work your way

Enjoy control over your lifestyle, choose your hours, fit your business around your life. Our model adapts to you.

Profit from passion

Tap into the UK’s fastest growing sport and the £7bn global sports coaching market* with exclusive Pickle Pops Coaching in your area.

* www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/sports-coaching-market-42739

Supported by a team of experts

Oli Grimsey-Jones

Oli Grimsey-Jones

CEO and Co-founder

Oli has a background in building digital products and in kids and youth tennis coaching. He has a passion for pickleball, inclusivity and learning through play.

David Grimsey

David Grimsey

COO and Co-founder

David is a business strategy and AI expert who has founded multiple successful businesses. He also has extensive youth coaching experience in tennis and basketball.

Jon Swain

Jon Swain

Chief Coaching Officer

John is a former professor of coaching at Canterbury University. An accomplished level 3 tennis coach, Jon has over 30 years of youth coaching expertise.

Jacqui Grimsey-Jones

Jacqui Grimsey-Jones

Chief Marketing Officer

Jacqui has over 15 years experience building famous global brands. Once a winner of Management Today’s 35 under 35, she’s also an avid racket sport enthusiast.

Dave Wood

David Wood

Pickleball Adviser

Dave is the current UK pickleball over 60s champion and as well as coaching, knows everything there is to know about our beautiful game.

We help you deliver the FUNdamentals

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Business training and support

Learn strategy, marketing and business operations from experienced professionals.

  • Training day to learn how to become your own boss, including marketing, HR and accounting basics, health and safety and organising your first sessions.
  • Modern IT to make running your business easy including website, booking system and payments all managed by us.
  • Ongoing support from our team whenever you need help.

Finding coaches in your area

To scale your franchise you’ll need to find and train top quality coaches in your area.

We pride ourselves on hiring fun and engaging “performers” from drama schools, art colleges as well as experienced sports coaches.

We guide you every step of the way with our coaching franchisee manual.

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Coaching training and support

Our coach training and session plans are created by Jon Swain, former professor of coaching at Canterbury uni. We then use AI to tailor these sessions to you and your students

  • Training day with Jon to learn the pickleball coaching FUNdamentals. You’ll learn pickleball coaching and performance skills to make kids giggle
  • AI powered lesson plans you can easily access and tailor to your students (virtually no tech skills needed!)
  • Ongoing training for you and your team of coaches to get even better

Lesson planning and tech

Pickle Pops Coaching supports lesson planning with frameworks and hundreds of proven activities and exercises.

By collecting feedback from parents, our AI powered system helps you easily build and adjust plans tailored to your students and their needs, all within our franchisee platform.

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