Business in a Box
For stand-alone private play centres, House of Play has developed its 'Business in a Box' package which offers assistance in business planning, site selection, terms negotiation, planning approvals, building regulations, spatial allocation, product mix, facility design, health and safety, operations procedures, marketing and much more.
We offer an initial 'project viability' service which helps you assess the likelihood of you being able to raise necessary finance. This is a twenty minute telephone discussion with our finance director who is a Chartered Accountant. This is the absolute first stage in the project. There is no point looking at premises, having site meetings, evaluating competitors or doing any project development work until you have a good idea that you can finance a project and broadly what scale of project you can finance.
Once you have established that you should be able to finance a project, to understand our range of services we recommend that you consider visiting 'Astrabound' in Doncaster which is our 13500 sq ft show site and will be your training ground. Please call +44 (0) 1302 846876 to arrange this or enquire through the on-line enquiry form.
Note that visiting Astrabound will empower you with significant intellectual knowledge about our support services and is recommended at the earliest possible time but if you are unable to do this initially we can send you a 'critical' path to follow in the project development process.
This will identify the process of taking your initial enquiry through to being a 'live' project. To have a fully 'live' project you need to have researched your proposed location, evaluated any competition, drafted a 'Business Plan', secured finance, sourced premises, negotiated commercially viable 'terms', drafted and submitted and had approved a planning application for 'Change of Use'.
House of Play will take you to this point free of charge and without commitment and it should only have cost you around £335 for the planning application fee. This service is unique and does not exist outside of House of Play.
Should you then decide to buy our product you will get the full project development and operational support offered within our 'Business in a Box' package.
