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Bodystreet INVESTMENT: £59,950 The fitness franchise, which specialises in EMS training, offers a £5,000 subsidy towards costs for franchisees who have qualified as a personal trainer. It can also work closely with you to secure start up loans, which it currently has an 100% success rate in achieving. All Star Football Academy INVESTMENT: £4,900 The children’s football club has an in-house payment plan whereby you initially pay the deposit, with the remaining balance paid in monthly instalments. The payment plan can be stretched over a long-term period of up to five years. Chai Green INVESTMENT: £120,000+ The restaurant, which blends British and Indian street food, has a partnership with HSBC and can help secure a loan covering up to 50% of franchise costs. It also works with a finance house that can fund kitchen appliances, machinery and other equipment that will be critical to your business launch. What’s On In INVESTMENT: £798+ The online advertising franchise offers a payment plan for its already low-cost investment fee, for all three of its business models. You can pay £789 for a single franchise over three months, £1,995 for a master franchise over six months, or a POA corporate franchise payment over nine to 12 months. Post and Packing INVESTMENT: £40,000 The postal retail franchise allows you to make full- stepped payments, which means payments start small and get bigger as you begin to grow your revenue. It also provides a match funding option with NatWest and HSBC, as well as support with the government start up loan. INVESTMENT: £140,000 The care franchise ensures all franchisees have enough working capital to carry them through a worst-case start up scenario. It currently has a partnership with HSBC, which can offer a loan covering up to 70% of the total investment cost. In addition, Right at Home does not charge support fees during the first six months of trading and charges a reduced rate for the remaining half of the first year. Franchisees won’t need to pay a marketing levy to the franchisor either as this budget is managed locally. The brand believes its stance is critical as the CQC application backlog is making the homecare start-ups in England twice as long and more expensive. Right at Home “Our next measure is to deliver financial benefits to franchisees via a recently implemented Growth Incentive Scheme” –Kate Dilworth, head of network development at Right at Home In the UK 710,000 , people are employed in the franchise industry, with franchisees key to this 20 WHAT FRANCHISE Issue 20.1 50 Funding Pl ans | PARTNER CONTENT