There’s a huge business park, Aztec West, just down the road from our headquarters at Oaklands Park in Bristol and another in Bradley Stoke which is less than a mile away.
It’s about giving those people an opportunity to play football. We did a bit of research and found that often people just can’t commit to weekends.
A lot of these people live a little way away, with us being near the motorway, and travel a long way to come to work.
Now, we have up to 50 people here for Mars Just Play sessions every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
It kind of happened naturally. In the Aztec West business park, they’ve got a couple of shops and cafes and the companies do speak to each other.
We’ve still only touched the surface with the amount of businesses who are there so provided we can get the word out to more companies, I think we’d probably be able to run one every day.
We used to only run two a week and now we’ve moved it up to three. We’ve developed a business league on the side as well – a seven-a-side monthly competition.
If we can get more companies involved, it would be a no-brainer for us to run more sessions.
