Sports injury clinic GoPerform “are a living, breathing example of what true entrepreneurialism in Reading looks like,” said their nominator for the award.
The business has had a tremendous positive impact on thousands of people in and around Reading, they added.
They now have 20 employees, work with two placement students every year, support 1,000-plus local athletes every year (across multiple sports, amateur/ professional clubs, universities and colleges) and run a successful podcast with thousands of downloads each month.
“All of the above is a snowball effect of the hard work and time invested to develop their business over the last seven-and-a-half years.
“In that time they’ve successfully navigated huge restrictions to their business. When lockdown forced them to shut their physical premises, they pivoted to provide remote services online; all without furloughing any staff – a notable achievement in its own right at the time.”
Post-pandemic they have gone from strength to strength, moving to a new purpose-built world-class training facility supporting individuals as young as 10 to 82 years old.
“They do this by working with individuals to provide better outcomes for them, which has a knock-on positive societal impact for people and those close to them.
“The impact they have is therefore extremely wide reaching and I consider
them to be a massive, massive Reading success story!” said the nominator.
Speaking after the event, clinical director and physiotherapist Luke Anthony said: “It feels great to have won the award, it’s such an awesome event to be a part of.
“We work with people with sports injuries and people that want to train as well so it’s a gym and physio centre. We work with hundreds of people a week, from eight year olds up to 85 year olds.
It’s a model we took from working with Reading Football Club and we’ve built a business from that.”
Director and sport rehabilitator Dan Buchanan added: “Lots of key people and businesses locally have helped us to connect with the right people so we’ve always felt very supported in Reading. It’s a close network. At the start it’s always tough and without support it’s a struggle so it’s nice to see all the people that we have to thank. It’s such a brilliant event to be at.”
