Preschool franchise opportunities
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Our main Preschool franchises
Baby Sensory
Sensory learning and development from birth to 13 months
Specifically designed from birth to aid your child's development, the classes are packed with an incredible variety of sights, smells, sounds, dance, music, textures, singing and even more - plus you'll never experience the same class twice.
- £3,000Minimum investment
Banana Moon
Rewarding on so many Different Levels!
With state-of-the art security and monitoring systems, specialist activities and dietary care, parents and children alike love the concept and franchisees have the opportunity to build a large and successful business in a fun and friendly environment.
- £47,500Minimum investment
ClubsComplete
Opening a world of opportunities to children and young people
“A Business in a Box”: Childcare and activity provisions for children including breakfast, lunchtime, after school, holiday clubs, workshops, birthday parties and more!
- £2,998Minimum investment
- £40,000Expected revenue after 2 years
Computer Xplorers
The UK’s leading children’s computing franchise. Deliver fun AND educational tech classes. Prepare children for the future! Flexible hours and no experience of IT or teaching required!
Full support from award-winning franchisor. 100% funding available.
- £93,000Expected revenue after 2 years
Fox Cycling
Learn to Cycle in an hour!
We teach children to cycle and we sell child-specific bikes. We do this via a proprietary method developed over the past decade by our founder and namesake, Steve Fox. Our aim is to become THE national and preferred children’s ‘learn to cycle’ provider.
- £5,500Minimum investment
Gymboree
Play & Music
Gymboree Play and Music Centres is one of the leading children learning and development institutions in the UK
- £60,000Minimum investment
Late Birthday Project
Want to join the most original football coaching programme in the UK? Own your own Late Birthday Project business, the UK’s fastest growing and most innovative coaching programme for children aged 5-14.
The Late Birthday Project (LBP) is an innovative and original football concept that counters the significant relative age effect in youth football, by offering a ground-breaking programme of professional academy coaching and opportunities to young footballers born between January and August only. LBP launched in 2016 and now has 10 centres across Surrey and Sussex. LBP is a proven, profitable and innovative business in an exciting multi-million pound industry. Our business model is simple and easy to use. Our training and support package is thorough and detailed while giving you the freedom to run your business in your own way, and really put your own stamp on it.
- £4,995Minimum investment
- £48,360Expected revenue after 2 years
Noodle Performance Arts
Putting Children Centre Stage
Noodle Performance Arts provides quality, fun performing arts training for children, at parent-friendly prices. We offer performing arts and dance classes to children from walking age upwards. We also offer a range of exciting party packages for children.
- £7,500Minimum investment
- £95,000Expected revenue after 2 years
Popcat's Music Time Ltd
Our vision is to empower individuals to create their own limitless lifestyle through their love of teaching
Popcat’s is an award winning music and movement business for pre- school children and the elderly. Our music sessions provide the best quality classes and are all inclusive regardless of age, gender or ability. We are looking for franchisees who share our passion and vision for music with a flair for organisation and being part of an extremely supportive team.
- £7,200Minimum investment
Rhythm Time Ltd
Enhance your little one's development!
Rhythm Time currently has 45 franchisees across the UK offering fun, developmental music classes to over 12,000 babies, toddlers and preschoolers each week.
- £7,500Minimum investment
Swimtime
New: Swimtime Starter Franchise Launched
Established in 1998, operating in hundreds of venues teaching over 20,000 people to swim a week, multi, international award-winning bespoke software developed in house, Swimtime is continuing to evolve demonstrated by our progressive culture inspiring progress in everything we do. A Swimtime franchise is an opportunity for you to run your own business, with the reassurance of a successful franchise model. This comes with support from day one and a Franchisor that is committed to further advancement of the brand. A huge part of our success comes from our growing number of talented, passionate, community focused, business mind and resilient franchisees.
- £20,000Minimum investment
- £200,000Expected revenue after 2 years
The UK has undergone a big push to improve the availability, quality and affordability of pre-school childcare and education in recent years. The result is a sector now estimated to be worth ?7.5 billion. There are believed to be around 23,500 day nurseries, 59,500 childminders, 9,600 pre-schools providers and 15,000 out-of-school childcare organisations throughout the UK.
Despite all this activity and growth, there appear to be too few places for parents to place pre-school children in order to take advantage of the government funding support for childcare and early years education. If this is a shortfall you would like to help fill, then a preschool franchise could add up to the best success story.
Companies sharing success with preschool franchisees
The type of new business start-up you could create, to provide services for babies and toddlers, depends on your own interests, skills and ambitions. But as inspiration, these are just a few of the organisations who have already notched up great reputations and successful business models for pre-school provision.
Monkey Puzzle Nurseries has been growing steadily since 2005, and now has 50 franchisee preschool businesses to encourage. Banana Moon and Little Cherubs nurseries are also looking for new entrepreneurs for their teams. Opportunities to start up in a specialist niche are abundant. This includes, for example, Jo Jingles and Moo Music franchises, or Tumble Tots to promote physical activities.
What a preschool franchise offers
One of the biggest hurdles facing a new business in preschool services is the huge amount of red tape involved, and meeting rigorous industry standards.
Having the business management support of an organisation which has ?been there, done that? can enable you to hit the ground running. You also get a brand parents may well respect and trust, alongside marketing help such as a website. And, of course, access to preferential training and equipment.