Sports Franchising Opportunity | The Little Foxes Club

When you create something important and successful, it’s only fair to share!

This is why The Little Foxes Club now offers franchise packages to expand its exciting programme of children’s sports coaching into new locations.

Not just in the UK, but overseas too.

We have a separate website (coming soon) to explain what’s involved in a franchise with The Little Foxes Club. Including exploring the many advantages of starting up your own children’s sports coaching venture.

However, we thought parents and community partners would be interested to know how we find, nurture and quality-check the franchise partners spreading our work to new communities.

Why is The Little Foxes Club expanding?

We believe passionately in what we do. Children must have access to sports classes, camps, coaching sessions, parties, clubs and leagues in their local area. We do everything we can to work with educators, local authorities, funders, community-sports providers and parents to make that happen.

Then, we provide children with opportunities for fitness, fun, friendship and new skills, no matter what level of ability they start from.

Our safe, inclusive and non-judgmental grassroots sports provision also includes diverse genres, to help children find a sports activity they love, and potentially want to compete in.

Working with community partners – and DBS-checked and well qualified local coaches – is proving a successful business model. So, why not expand and deliver our leading brand of children’s sports activities to new places?

Something we do by recruiting enthusiastic local people who want to be their own boss, supported by a national children’s sports provider who is a leader in this field.

What we look for in franchise partners?

Working with The Little Foxes Club as a franchisee is a journey, not a destination.

We seek out enthusiastic self-starters who share our vision, and who want to be part of a warm, nurturing team. It’s also great when they are ambitious and want to develop an ever-expanding programme of grassroots sports, and potentially run multiple franchise operations.

Franchise applicants need to be aged over 18 and willing to be DBS screened and are usually people from sports, education or business backgrounds. They can actively coach themselves, or leave that to their local recruits.

Commitment to our quality and safety standards is measured right from the initial discussions about starting a children’s sports coaching franchise with us.

From there, we work with a potential franchisee to establish things like:

Which exclusive territory do they want to cover
How many hours/days do they want to commit to
What gaps are there in children’s sports provision in their area
What local community contacts do they have – or need

Potential sports coaching franchise applicants are also provided with answers to their questions, such as:

How much start-up capital do I need for a children’s sports franchise?
What training and support do you provide for new franchisees?
What is the likely return on investment with children’s sports franchising?

Sports Franchising With The Little Foxes Club

The advantages of franchising with The Little Foxes Club

Being the best in the business is certainly a big attraction, for anyone looking for franchise opportunities in sports, education and community sectors.

Our franchisees are often inspired by the fact they can create different income streams, while our national brand and reputation both ‘open doors’ for them.

Our unique franchising support package is a huge benefit of working with us.

The Little Foxes Club manages admin, marketing and sports delivery programmes centrally. This helps parents book their children into classes with confidence and get all the information they need.

Our franchisees benefit from having a lot of their customer service tasks done by our highly experienced and technically savvy team. Leaving our dynamic franchise partners free to use their time to innovate, make new contacts and nurture their own local network.

Other franchising advantages we offer include:

Low franchise start-up and running costs
Home-based franchising is ideal for parents
Favourable prices for merchandise and equipment
Ongoing training and business support
7-day a week customer services provision

Interested to know more about children’s sports franchise opportunities?

If parents, funders or sports service commissioners want more information about the areas we cover with our quality-controlled franchise network, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

How can you learn more about franchising with us? Click on our dedicated franchise website or contact us to set up an informal Zoom chat. We would also be happy to send you our children’s sports franchise prospectus.

Learn more about our sports franchising opportunities

Government Funding

Insights on how to fund a franchise start-up

Not everyone has savings – or a redundancy pay-out – that they can use to invest in starting their own business. Even when it involves a relatively low-cost franchise opportunity, like The Little Foxes Club.

However, there are ways to get enough capital to become your own boss without relying on traditional business loans. Here we outline some of the options, including the government-backed Start Up Loan scheme, with links to help your research.

The Princes Trust

Your options to get help to launch your own enterprise may include the long-standing Prince’s Trust organisation. It has helped more than 90,000 UK people – aged under 30 years – to become their own bosses.

Start Up Loans

As long as you are over 18, this is one of the best ways to finance a franchise under The Little Foxes Club brand.

The Start Up Loans initiative is managed by an organisation called British Business Bank, but it is funded by the Government. It takes the form of a low-interest personal loan, that you can only use to finance a new business venture or to expand an existing one. So, it may also be an option if you decide to create a multi-territory franchise at some point.

You don’t just benefit from easy-to-manage loan repayments when you invest in your franchise though. It comes with 12 months of business mentoring. That could be a great addition to the help and support you get from The Little Foxes Club team.

One of your biggest questions may be “Does this type of business loan put my home at risk?” or “Can I lend business start-up money if I don’t own property?”. What is exciting about this option is it’s an ‘unsecured’ loan. That means you DON’T have to have any assets to apply for this low-interest start-up loan. Nor do you need guarantors or any of the other obstacles that can limit your ability to secure start-up finance.

Other financial help for starting a business

There are other options you could consider too, to ensure you have enough money to start your own business confidently.

One is to ask your family to invest, on the basis of a potential return in the first 2 or 3 years. You could also explore Crowd Funding schemes to boost grassroots sports in your community.

There are organisations that match entrepreneurs to capital investment companies, or individuals looking for SMEs likely to succeed, as well as something called Peer-to-Peer loan schemes.

It is worth reading a quick guide to the different ways to lend money for a small business. There is another overview on this useful website.

However, one of the first steps to securing cash to invest in your franchise is to contact The Little Foxes Club franchise team!

We would be pleased to discuss the cost of starting a sports-related franchise for children, and potential ways to get enough money to be your own boss.

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