The Team

Andy Hamilton

Owner/ Director of The Hamiltons Leisure Group

Andy founded a group of market leading manufacturing businesses, some 40 years ago, and sold the group to a FTSE 100 company in 2021.

Andy trains regularly, and competes in various national fitness challenges, winning the SAS Fan Dance. His belief in the importance of health and fitness, enhancing people’s lives is the inspiration behind investing in his local community with Hamiltons wellbeing and lifestyle venue.

Andy is married to Anna, who is also a director of Hamiltons.

Mal Purchase

Head of Sport & Fitness

Mal really needs very little introduction, given his status as a market leading sports and fitness coach. His CV reads like a who’s who of the most prestigious organisations from UK Athletics to his football coaching at clubs in every league from Conference through to Premiership, and working at an international level for Wales, England and at tenures in both India and China. He has also judged competitions on TV, such as Fitness Britain, and has training experience with the British Military too. He is fastidious when it comes to nutrition and fitness, and is equipped to train personal instructors at academy level, deliver coaching in boxing and even has a degree himself in Sports Science. He undertakes a wealth of illustrious challenges, and believes success is a win, coming first, nothing less. Winning the SAS Fan Dance 8 times, the Paras 10 twice as well as countless other challenges. He is about to compete in the forthcoming HYROX Games, and aims to come first!
Mal is passionate in how he achieves results for his clients, and he delivers rehabilitation programmes, alongside treating debilitating sports injuries to great effect and outcomes.
He is perfectly placed to lead this new Hamiltons Fitness concept, given his breadth of knowledge and experience.

Chris Jewkes

Head of Group Training

Chris’ role as former owner of Chris Jewkes Fitness, is now to support the new look Hamiltons in terms of consultancy, business, group/class training sessions and one- to-one results focussed programmes.
Again Chris has an industry wide reputation, and is revered and admired for his knowledge and expertise in the industry. He too has accomplished many sporting and fitness challenges such as the New York Marathon(with a personal best of 3 hrs 17), Paras 10 challenges, The Mont Blanc Marathon, Black Mountains Challenge and the Race across America, along with numerous multi-day marathons. Similar in outlook to Mal, Chris’ ethos is highly competitive, and he believes in delivering ones best in all endeavours.
He enjoyed a distinguished military career in the Army Air Corps, and later trained as a Commando, to then becoming a Physical Training Instructor in the Royal Marines for a further 7 years, serving all over the world. He then joined Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, to launch a new fitness concept at the Molineux Stadium, under the watchful eye of Sir Jack Hayward. Later, he co- created the Sports Fitness brand and Health Cafe concept in Cannock with another local entrepreneur, winning the prestigious accolade of the ‘Best UK Health Club’. This then led to the launch of a local luxury health and fitness concept ‘Elysium’ in Albrighton, before starting his own successful business with Chris Jewkes Fitness, here in Danescourt Road. Chris sold his business to Andy Hamilton in 2023, and now looks forward to being an integral part of the next chapter of Hamiltons Leisure.
Given his status and reputation locally, Chris will no doubt prove to be a great asset in a number of ways.