Fun Fest Holiday Club
Fun Fest Holiday Club offers a range of different childcare and children’s activity services across the UK; holiday clubs, before and after school clubs and children’s parties
Investment Amount:
£20,001 - £50,000
Industry Sector(s):
Children Franchises, Creative Franchises, Education Franchises, Home Based Franchises, Latest Franchises, Low Cost Franchises, Management Franchises, Part-Time Franchises, Women In Franchising
A childcare franchise which promotes flexibility, freedom & fun as part of the Fun Fest family
What is Fun Fest?
Fun Fest is an innovative and exciting child-led solution for parents’ childcare worries, offering a range of fun and educational activities for children
Children are empowered to choose from a menu of exciting activities every morning and afternoon to design their own individual holiday programme. From nerf challenge, mission ompossible, slime making, great outdoors and I’m a kid get me out of here to beauty school, pottery, cupcake heaven and escape room, there is something to appeal to every child.
The ethos of embracing each child's specialties and giving them choices in their play, sets Fun Fest apart from traditional childcare services and enables the brand to extend into other services such as wraparound care and children’s parties.
Success
Since its launch in 2017, Fun Fest has built a network of 40 popular clubs across the country.
What makes Fun Fest successful is its focus on providing exceptional childcare services and building a network of satisfied franchisees.
Members of the BFA and EWIF and listed in the EF100 for 5 years running, the company has a team of like-minded, highly skilled, and passionate individuals with over 20 years of knowledge and experience in the childcare sector. This ensures the services delivered are of high quality and meet the needs of both parents and children.
All services meet the highest OFSTED standards for early years childcare and Fun Fest was voted the Best Newcomer to Franchising 2018 by WorkingMums.
Meeting the needs of today’s parents
The demand for childcare is high due to the challenges faced by parents in this generation. More parents are working full-time with a reduced childcare support network resulting in limited childcare options. Fun Fest is filling this gap by offering reliable, quality childcare provision for all primary age children from as young as 3 years old.
Meeting the needs of its franchisees
Every franchisee has different priorities, aims and objectives and Fun Fest works collaboratively with its franchisees to support them to build the business that suits them. The main reasons cited by its franchisees on why Fun Fest works for them is a combination of:
- The flexibility to control my own working life
- Fulfilling my ambition to start my own business
- The opportunity to work for myself
- To build a large business and earn a high return
- The fun, active and creative nature of the business
- The emotional rewards from making a positive contribution to my community
- Using my childcare qualifications and experience in a different way
Rewards
The earning potential for Fun Fest is significant, given the substantial number of children in the UK between 0-9 years old (currently over 8 million). As a result, the network is experiencing an impressive revenue growth year on year.
An established club has turnover of over £100k per annum with an impressive profit margin. Whilst some Fun Fest franchisees are content to run a single successful club, others have expanded to running multiple clubs and services, proving that Fun Fest also delivers a management style franchise opportunity.
This strong network growth makes it an exciting opportunity for business and childcare professionals seeking independence in their careers and job satisfaction with added rewards and benefits.
Franchise Model
As a franchise model, Fun Fest offers sole ownership of a territorial region in the UK, along with full operational support, training, marketing, and website support to its franchisees. This allows franchisees to have control over their business while benefiting from a network of support from like-minded franchisees across the country.
“The flexibility that my franchise offers is second to none. Originally I put a few months’ hard work into setting up but was then able to run it alongside a full-time job while my Fun Fest grew. For relatively low start-up costs, the financial returns are now great enough to allow me to step away from full time work and focus on maximising the potential of my Fun Fest territory. I don’t have childcare qualifications myself but with the support on offer from the Fun Fest team and by employing strong staff members, this has never been a problem. Fun Fest is a great opportunity for anyone looking for greater personal and financial independence” Ryan, Fun Fest Sutton
A Fun Fest for Children franchise gives you a brand and a business which is:
• Child-centred: Making sure that children’s choices are central to their Fun Fest experiences
• High quality: Having built an excellent reputation with Ofsted, schools, parents and children
• In demand: Providing childcare solutions to working parents for which there is a growing demand coupled with a lack of adequate provision across the UK
• Profitable: Earning a fantastic return for seasonal, part-time or full-time operating hours
• Flexible: Fitting around your life, commitments and aspirations in a way which suits you
• Supported: Providing the tools, training, advice and support you need to succeed
• Rewarding: Giving children exciting experiences they will never forget
• Scalable: Enabling franchisees to build a large, managed business
Fun Fest for Children is a well-established and successful franchise opportunity, providing excellent childcare services to children. It’s a rewarding business prospect for passionate individuals in the childcare sector.
Sarah Beattie
Managing Director and Founder – her story
In 2009 I was working full time and had 3 children who were 10, 8 and 5 years old. Whilst I could manage to juggle everything in term time, I found that the school holidays were more difficult. The clubs that existed either did not suit all my children or they did not cover the full working day or the full holiday period. Trying to organise my childcare for the 6 week summer holidays in particular was a stressful, logistical exercise that involved a complicated mixture of different clubs for different children, family, friends and taking odd days off to cover the gaps and repay the favours!
I could see that I was not alone in this annual challenge and decided that I was in a good position to do something about it. My day nursery business is based at a private school in the centre of Solihull. This school has fantastic facilities and beautiful grounds but was empty for the duration of the holidays – what a waste!
I approached the school with a business plan to rent their facilities for the school holidays to run my own holiday club. I am very grateful that they listened to me, could see the potential and agreed to work with me and so Fun Fest Holiday Club was born.
It was important for me that my club would:
- Have the relaxed and fun atmosphere associated with holidays.
- Be Ofsted registered and run by experienced, qualified and well-trained staff so that parents would feel reassured that their children were safe.
- Be open for full working days for the duration of the holidays.
- Be affordable for working parents.
This club has been running successfully for 9 years, we regularly run at our capacity of 120 children per day as so many families have become loyal customers.
My daughter and my niece are now part of the team, working as Play Workers at the club in their holidays.
I employed Ryan as one of our play workers when he was 18 and he came back to work with us every holiday for the duration of his time at university. When he graduated he was keen to work with me to set up and run his own Fun Fest Holiday Club – and so Fun Fest Franchising was born!
Since then, we have opened a network of Fun Fest Holiday Clubs across the country and have expanded our services to include Before & After School Clubs and Children’s Parties.
This team are now using their experience of running Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ nurseries to also run the Canopy Children's Nursery franchise.
I have a built a fantastic team of childcare and business professionals to support the network.
Franchisees
Our franchisees come from a variety of backgrounds. We have pharmacists, sales professionals, horticulturalists and business analysts as well as teachers, teaching assistants and nursery practitioners. They have a wide variety of knowledge and skills but share the following qualities:
· A knowledge of the local area in terms of families, schools and childcare
· A desire for quality and excellence in what they do
· A positive and proactive attitude
· The ability to plan ahead, project manage and complete tasks to a deadline
· Attention to detail
· A good communicator
Please note that it is not necessary to have experience in childcare or hold specific childcare qualifications.
Here is feedback from some of our franchisees...
‘The flexibility that my franchise offers is second to none. Originally, I put a few months’ hard work into setting up but was then able to run it alongside a full-time job while my Fun Fest grew. For relatively low start-up costs, the financial returns are now great enough to allow me to step away from full time work and focus on maximising the potential of my Fun Fest territory. I don’t have childcare qualifications myself but with the support on offer from the Fun Fest team and by employing strong staff members, this has never been a problem. Fun Fest is a great opportunity for anyone looking for greater personal and financial independence’
Ryan Turner, franchisee for Sutton Coldfield
“I knew it was time to ‘scratch the itch’ I had to run my own business, but not having done anything like this before I also knew I would need help and
support from the start. I could see that a franchise would give me a business-in-a-box but to start with, I had no idea what sort of business would be right for me.
I was impressed with the Fun Fest brand, team and offering. The investment level was appealing, and I could see that I would not have to give up my existing work entirely to run a franchise with them. Having young children myself, I knew there was a need in my area for a holiday childcare service.”
A franchise with Fun Fest has given us the flexible and supported business we need, and our recent target-breaking launch just goes to confirm we made the right choice!”
Avni Dhiman, franchisee with her sister Anjli for Harrow & Stanmore
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