SMS Pro Soccer is headed by Mark Hayes. Mark has a wealth of experience within the game and is a former football club Chairman of 14 years, and a current Sporting Director at a step 5 club within the English football pyramid.
A life long Wigan Athletic fan at heart, Mark has built contacts all around the world whilst helping to raise more than £500,000 for a wide variety of charities. Mark is also a proud Ambassador for the charity Joseph’s Goal which aims to find a cure for Non Ketotic Hyperglycinemia (NKH), a life limiting disorder, and for Buzz Hub St Helens Coalition of Disabled People, an organisation that provides assistance and opportunities to disabled people.
Jonny Davies, SMS Group Ltd Owner, started his SMS journey back in 2007 having previously spent time abroad in the United States, Iceland and Thailand coaching and playing football. During this time Jonny worked with some of the most venerable and hard to reach communities and when he returned to the UK he set upon his mission of giving back.
Using sports as a key motivating factor Jonny developed a variety of programmes to help disengaged youngsters and not before too long set up his own alternative provision at a central venue based in Failsworth, but providing educational needs to young people from the whole of Greater Manchester. In 2019 SMS Changing Lives School gained independent school status and in 2023 opened their second venue at Old Trafford, Manchester which also links with cultural tours and partnerships with schools in China.
