Light Centre
Founders:
Mark Thompson
Established:
2004
Investment:
2024
Middleton Enterprises invested £1.6m
BACKGROUND
Light Centre is London’s top destination for medical, therapeutic and wellbeing services. The Light Centre provides therapy rooms that wellness professionals can hire flexibly to run their own practices. The business serves >350 clients across a range of disciplines including chiro, physio, aesthetics and mental health therapists on a flexible basis, reducing the need to make long-term commitments and providing best in class spaces for London’s top practitioners.
Mark founded the business as a practising osteopath that understood the problem first hand. Starting with the Belgravia centre, the business quickly attracted London’s top therapists who were drawn in by clean, high-quality spaces in prime locations, with great access to their customer base and proximity to public transport.
Olga Allon now acts as CEO, overseeing operations, marketing, HR, strategy and site selection with invaluable experience as former architect and entrepreneur having founded & successfully exited Hot Yoga Society. Mark remains involved in company strategy, new site selection and therapist curation acting as an executive chairman in the business.
Why we invested inThe Light Centre?
Mark has built a best-in-class service offering a wide range of wellness facilities under one roof. The ability to work flexibly attracts the best talent and when combined with first-class locations makes for an offering that is difficult for traditional wellness companies offering just one or two therapies to compete with. Light Centre’s focus on community, assistance in marketing and access to a wide customer base make the centres highly attractive to London’s therapists. This has resulted in a loyal customer base and high customer satisfaction from therapists. Mark is an industry leader in the space, has a proven formula and format and has ambition to scale this concept across London & the UK.
Moving Forward…
Since investment in 2024, the company has initiated plans to grow their presence in central London with a strong pipeline of attractive sites. Investment from Middleton Enterprises Growth Capital will allow Mark to grow faster while still continuing to improve the service offering to both practitioners and their customers with Middleton Enterprises by their side to support on the journey.