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Football Fun Factory was formed in 2017 when Founder James Cutting developed a coaching company in his local village. The aim of the sessions was to put smiles on faces through football and make a difference to the lives of many children and their families in the local area.
In 2019, the company began to franchise and grew quickly across East Anglia. The Directors, James Cutting, Jonny Martin and former Manchester United player Luke Chadwick leveraged their experience in youth football coaching and their network across the region to attract children, parents and coaches to the brand.
Such was the impact of the launch of the franchise, the business awarded it’s first 12 franchisees within it’s first 12 months. Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength, onboarding passionate football people who are building successful businesses and making a real difference to people where they live.
Landmark moments for the Football Fun Factory included being award ‘Best Business Serving Football’ at the Football Business Awards and becoming the football provider for Center Parcs across all UK and Ireland Center Parcs villages.
Franchisees operate the truly unique ‘Head Coach’ model where the franchisee is obligated to be the main deliverer of the programmes. The protects and enhances the quality of delivery, which alongside the incredible football inflatables, helps create an fun and exciting environment where children fall in love with football.
To support the Football Fun Factory to expand across the United Kingdom and internationally, a range of different franchise options are available and anyone who is passionate about football and positively impacting their local community is encouraged to get in touch to learn more.
We’re on a mission to make football fun for everyone and through our franchise you could turn your passion into a thriving business, so get in touch today!
Football Fun Factory takes great pride in how we enable our franchisees through high quality training and support. Once a franchisee completes the Discovery Phase and begins to plan their business, we offer full training in our Business Planning framework that will enable you to identify the best possible venues and pricepoint for your community.
Franchisees are booked onto one of five cohorts which take place throughout the year and attend an immersive Onboarding Day alongside other franchise owners who are launching their business at the same time. This creates a fantastic family feel and supportive team culture. The Onboarding Day is led by Founders James Cutting and Jonny Martin, Director Luke Chadwick and Franchise Launch Specialist Darryl Coakley and covers the business operations and programme delivery.
Following the Onboarding Day, all franchisees undergo a 100-day Launch Phase. In this phase you will be supported by our Franchise Launch Specialist who will provide intense 1-2-1 and group support for the cohort. Throughout this 100 days you will complete your training via our online Franchise Community platform.
At the end of the 100-day Launch Phase, the training and support doesn’t stop! You will then be placed in a new cohort of franchisees from across the country. This cohort is led by one of our Lead Head Coaches who is an experienced and highly successful franchisee. Their support will include a weekly cohort meeting, adhoc 1-2-1 business development support and 6 month goal-setting sessions.
At the Football Fun Factory we are with you at every step of your journey as we know that your success is our success. Our aim is to build franchise businesses together to work towards our shared goal of becoming the world’s leading children’s football coaching organisation.
The full-time franchise model enables franchisees to deliver weekly training sessions in the evenings and at weekends, school holiday camps, birthday parties and events. Typically, a franchisee will deliver at least 3 evening ‘Football Fun & Development’ sessions and 2 back-to-back Tots Football Fun sessions at the weekend.
During school term-time the daytime activities include marketing, promoting and adminsitering your experiences, with a focus on provide outstanding service to parents. For those operating the part-time model, the Camps are not included and it is just the weekly sessions, parties and events that make up the franchise model.
Since the introduction of our bespoke website and booking system, lots of the daily adminsitrational tasks are now automated, which enables our franchisees to focus on the marketing, promotion and delviery of the sessions.
Other activities will include meeting with venue manager and building strategic relationships within the local community to build and grow awareness of the brand.
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