by JamieReflecting on a great year for MiMentor in 2025 as we look ahead to 2026
As 2025 draws to a close, we’ve taken time to pause, reflect, and appreciate what has been one of the most exciting chapters in MiMentor’s coach education journey so far.
It was a great year for MiMentor that brought real momentum.
We’ve seen enhancements to the MiMentor Coaching Platform, created new partnerships, and seen inspiring stories in coaching and development from the elite level to grassroots, across the world.
Above all, it has reaffirmed what we set out to do: make high-quality football coach learning more accessible, structured, and measurable for the people who need it most.
Our news page has been full of highlights, covering launches, collaborations, events, and moments that showcased the value of continuous development in football coaching.
We are proud to carry on our work with Aston Villa Football Club, deliver a bespoke Football Directors Course with Surf Nation, and share knowledge through webinars and tailor-made online learning to support the challenges our partners face.
And we’re equally excited to welcome Arsenal Academy into the MiMentor community. It’s a milestone that reflects both the growing demand for connected learning environments, and the trust placed in our platform and library of great coaching content.
Just as importantly, 2025 has also been a year of continuity.
We’re grateful to the organisations who didn’t just join us but chose to extend their partnerships and deepen their commitment to development through the MiMentor Coaching Platform. That continued belief helps us keep improving the platform, expanding the content library, and delivering experiences that genuinely support staff, coaches, and learners at every level.
To every coach, mentor, educator, practitioner, and organisation who engaged with MiMentor in 2025 – thank you. Your commitment to CPD and to becoming better for the people you serve and support is the driving force behind everything we do.
Whether you completed a course, joined a webinar, subscribed fully, or simply explored new pathways, you contributed to a year of meaningful progress.
The Challenge We Keep Hearing
As we look ahead to 2026, the opportunity is huge, not just for individual coaches, but for the organisations we support across sport, healthcare, education, and corporate learning. Different sectors, same core challenge:
How do we make learning and resources easy to find, easy to use, and easy to measure, without relying on multiple disconnected tools?
This challenge has guided much of our work in 2025 and will continue shaping our vision for 2026.
Supporting Pathways From Professional Academies to Grassroots Clubs
One of the most exciting parts of MiMentor’s growth is seeing how the same library and platform functionalities can support development across the whole ecosystem — from professional academies to grassroots clubs.
For academies, it’s about clarity and alignment: a central place for methodology, onboarding, session plans, CPD pathways, and staff development across phases and departments.
For grassroots clubs, it’s about access and simplicity: trusted resources, clear learning pathways, and an easy-to-use platform that supports volunteer and part-time coaches without adding admin.
MiMentor brings it together in one place – pathways, coaching courses, modules, resources, groups, certificates, assessments, and reporting – while still allowing each organisation to tailor the experience.
Our on-brand customisation means every hub can look and feel familiar to its users from day one, boosting engagement and making learning easier to adopt.
And as we move into 2026 and beyond, we’re building with scale in mind. With translations being added, MiMentor will be able to support organisations in new regions and markets, helping deliver high-quality development that’s locally accessible and consistent across languages.
Creating Content That Makes Learning Stick
Great platforms are powered by great content, and in 2025 we’ve continued to expand the opportunities for organisations to do more than host learning: they create it, refine it, and share it at scale.
MiMentor supports the full content journey, from building structured learning pathways and micro-modules, to capturing webinar series and workshops, to turning internal knowledge (methodologies, standards, and best practice) into resources that are searchable, measurable, and easy to revisit.
Whether it’s coach education, practitioner development, onboarding, leadership, or mentoring, we help organisations package their expertise in a way that’s clear for learners and valuable for the organisation.
This is where our work with universities and prestigious organisations such as Association of Sporting Directors and Commonwealth Games Federation is particularly exciting. These partnerships reflect the growing appetite for blending academic insight with real-world practice, and for creating content that is evidence-informed, practical, and scalable.
Together, we’re helping convert expertise into accessible learning that can support staff development, research application, and consistent standards across programmes.
Looking into 2026, content creation will remain a key growth area, not only for what MiMentor provides through the library, but for what our partners can build, own, and evolve within their own branded hub.
A Digital Home for Learning That Actually Works
MiMentor enables organisations to launch a fully branded digital home for learning and resources. A single, centralised hub where teams can access onboarding pathways, CPD modules, SOPs, playbooks, session plans, research, webinars, replays and more.
Behind the scenes, roles and permissions keep content relevant, groups move conversations out of scattered chats, and certificates, assessments and analytics transform activity into meaningful evidence.
This approach is now helping sports pathways, academies, healthcare programmes, education providers and corporate L&D teams deliver consistent, structured development at scale.
Building 2026 Together
As we step into a new year, we’re excited to continue evolving alongside you.
Whether you’re an individual coach looking to progress or an organisation aiming to unify your learning environment, 2026 offers a powerful opportunity to grow together.
If consolidating content and giving every user a clear “what’s next” is on your roadmap, we’d love to show you what your own MiMentor hub could look like.
Let us help you offer more first-class development opportunities to your people. Book your platform demo with the team now.
Here’s to a powerful year ahead, for you, your organisation, and your learners…
If you want to see how MiMentor can help you in 2026, get in touch here – we’d love to hear from you!