Our NXT Level Founders

Since meeting 2 decades ago through football, Gavin English and Kevin Molloy have made it their mission to enable access to high-quality, values driven, sporting activity for young people across London, not just through delivery, but in building an extraordinary community of like-minded organisations driven by great people with the desire to do good.

Now heading up our philanthropic work, they work with us and our partner organisations bringing their expertise and experience to bear in the development of community interest activity and spaces in which it can happen!

Sport - Through decades of experience designing and leading school sporting programmes of the highest quality, coaching from grassroots through to international rep level, advising governing bodies and other sporting organisations on strategy and delivery, and building hundreds of high quality contacts across the sector, Kevin and Gavin are well-placed to support others in reaching greater numbers of young people and enhance their provision. More excitingly, they aim to bring about highly impactful partnerships and relationships that allow those we work with to reach a whole new level of provision - their next level as it were…!

Education - Gavin and Kevin have spent decades between them as teachers and leaders both pastoral and academic. They are currently senior leaders in one of London’s top independent day schools (secondary and primary) and work across the sector in governance and support of state-sector education. Through this work they have found themselves working as advisors, content creators and consultants for several organisations and on cross-sector educational initiatives and lobbyist groups, particularly in the field of inclusion, adolescent mental health and wellbeing, workforce, parental education and support, and physical and emotional literacy in schools.

  • We cannot speak highly enough of the professionalism of NXT Level. Their expertise, experience and understanding of sports development is unrivalled.

    Harry Hudson - Kinetic Foundation co-founder

  • NXT have provided us with consistently high quality provision across the year. They have engaged and developed pupils across the key stages during term time and provided hours of fun on holiday camps. If you can get them into your school...do it!

    Robert Claxton- Principal High View Primary School

  • Tom Derry

    COO

    After completing his education, Tom went on to sign a professional contract with Gillingham FC. This opened the door to an impressive 10 year (and counting) career playing for teams across the National and Isthmian leagues.

    With a background in property and project management alongside his footballing career, Tom has provided the expertise to realise NXT's vision, expanding our facilities offer, recruiting and leading a team of qualified staff and supporting partners and providers in the implementation of their programmes.

  • Jamie Lunnon

    Head of Ladder Up Foundation

    Having graduated from University in 2023, Jamie has committed to delivering and enabling access programmes for children across South London in sport, art and education.

    As well as being in charge of growing and accessing funding for our Ladder Up Foundation, Jamie supports on NXT’s facilities management and activity in a business development and administrative capacity.

  • John Myatt

    Activity Lead

    Following an impressive professional footballing career which began at Crystal Palace and took John across the country, he took to teaching and coaching to share his love for the game.

    This led to a 31-year career teaching PE and sport in a school environment and coaching at a range of levels, from grassroots to professional. John’s professional highlight was leading his school team to the ISFA nationals at St George’s Park in 2022. His Holiday Soccer School has continued at full tilt through his work at NXT Level!

FAQs

  • For facility information, please email facilities@nxtlevelsportsed.co.uk.

    For activity information, please email activities@nxtlevelsportsed.co.uk.

    For queries about NXT Ladder Up, please email ladderup@nxtlevelsportsed.co.uk.

    Alternatively, please call us on 07498 537397.

  • All of our staff have enhanced DBS checks and undergo safeguarding training. As part of our facilities contracts, we undergo site security and safety training with the facility site team. For new customer bookings, we will undergo Risk Assessments and establish the necessary level of safeguarding checks with the local safeguarding board. Please see our safeguarding policy for more information.

  • We are covered for all our activities across our sites and work with our customers to ensure they have the correct public liability insurance. As a school, we ask that you ensure that you have insurance for external users.

  • We check and monitor facilities before, during and after customer bookings to ensure they are clean and undamaged. We have a strict disciplinary strike system for customers who disrespect facilities which we will enforce when needed to protect your site. Our Terms and Conditions lay out our policy in more detail.

  • Absolutely! We always welcome new partnerships. Please email partnerships@nxtlevelsportsed.co.uk. We look forward to working with you.

  • We have a complaints policy which is carefully filtered through our organisation at the appropriate level of escalation. Minor on-site complaints are resolved by on-call community connectors and incident forms are completed each time. For more serious complaints, we escalate to our office team at support@nxtlevelsportsed.co.uk.

  • We will always prioritise the needs of the school first and foremost. We work with a delegated liaison contact within the school to establish what dates to cancel bookings for well in advance. These cancellations are handled sensitively and efficiently for the customer.

  • We work closely with you to establish how we can maximise your income based on the facilities you have. After establishing our strategy with your cooperation, we project revenue well in advance and contractually ensure that you make money from your partnership with us by establishing a fair, consistent revenue split.

  • Whenever we onboard a new customer, we work with you to establish what accessibility needs you have. We will do all in our power to cater for your specific needs. If you were to have any concerns or needs arise during your booking with us, you would be encouraged to contact support@nxtlevelsportsed.co.uk.

  • Simply go to our store, find what you’re interested in and sign up! we regularly update our activity page depending on what we have coming up, so there should be opportunities at all times. If there’s something more specific you’re after and you can’t see it on our website, shoot us an email at activities@nxtlevelsportsed.co.uk and we will do everything in our power to make it happen.

  • We’re your people! We have a strong track record of encouraging entrepreneurial, unusual and brilliant ideas for community activity and making it happen by leveraging our space, resource and people. If you've got an idea and you want to take it to the NXT Level, please contact activities@nxtlevelsportsed.co.uk.

  • Not a problem! Simply contact ladderup@nxtlevelsportsed.co.uk and we will do what we can to find an arrangement that helps you to do what you want to do.