A flat phone
ends the visit
People keep their tickets, gym passes, bank cards and directions on their phones. When the battery goes, they leave, and they take their spending with them. These are the numbers behind that, from our own research and from UK surveys.
We asked 10,000 gym members first
Before building the business we surveyed more than 10,000 gym members in 2025 and 2026. The answer was clear.
said they would use a power bank at their gym, because they regularly run out of battery there.
gym members surveyed during 2025 and 2026.
venues now running a Procura station, from gym floors to hotel lobbies.
Source: Procura gym member survey, 2025 to 2026
Most Britons are running close to empty
In June 2026 Vodafone UK asked 2,000 people about their phone batteries. On average they start to worry at 28%, and a third of Gen Z (36%) called a flat battery their most stressful everyday situation, ahead of traffic, running late and losing their keys.
Only 32% carry their own power bank. Everyone else is looking for a socket, and that usually means your socket or the door.
Source: Vodafone UK, survey of 2,000 UK adults by Walr, June 2026
4.5 hrs
UK adults now spend an average of four and a half hours online every day, and most of that time is on a smartphone.
That's a lot of battery gone before anyone reaches your front door.
Source: Ofcom, Online Nation 2025, published 10 December 2025
They change their plans
smartphone users said they felt panic when their battery dropped to 20% or lower.
said they would drop everything and turn round to go home and charge.
of millennials said they would likely skip the gym if it came down to working out or charging their phone.
Source: LG Electronics Low Battery Anxiety survey, 2,000 US smartphone users, conducted by Ebiquity, 2016
Where a station earns its space
Gyms
The code to get in and out is on the phone. When it dies, the member is stuck at the barrier asking staff to let them out. It happens on the way out, so it's the last thing they remember about the visit.
Cafés and co-working
The two or three sockets are taken by 10am, and people pick the plug over the table. With a bank to hand, the whole room becomes usable, and the customer who would have left at 3pm stays until they've finished, ordering as they go.
Hotels, bars and transport hubs
Guests need their phones for tickets, taxis, room keys and the way home. A bank they can take with them solves the problem without anyone guarding a cable behind the desk.
Free to host, and it pays you
- 01You take a share of every rental at your station. The split varies from location to location, based on your type of venue and your footfall, and we agree it with you after a consultation call.
- 02Customers stay longer and spend more, because the battery no longer decides when they go.
- 03The screen is yours. Run your own promotions, or sell the space to sponsors and suppliers and keep that revenue.
- 04You pay nothing, ever. We own the hardware, install it, maintain it and insure it.
- 05The café that solves the battery problem becomes the default place to work from. That's how people turn into regulars.
What could a station take at your venue?
Move the sliders to see the rental income a station could bring in each month. Your share of it is set for your location.
At £3 an hour. An illustration only, since real numbers depend on your footfall. Your revenue share is agreed on a free consultation call.
Find out your splitSee the numbers
for your venue
Contact us for more, and our team will get back to you. Or book a free consultation call now and we'll work out the revenue share split for your location.