Starting A Small Firm

Proprietor/Director/Employees

What are your own skills and experience? All of the group has plenty of past experience, in watching and playing. We all fully understand the rules of the game and have enough experience to organise this kind of business.

Will you need to employ anyone to provide complementary skills? Coaches will need to be hired if teams require coaching sessions. Teams will have the option whether they want to hire the courts just to play on or they can have a coach teach them special training techniques.

Will any staff require training? Unfortunately there isn't many existing coaches around that train this type of football, but ordinary, sporty people can be taught the different coaching methods and skills it takes to teach this kind of football e.g. students.

Market Research

Is there a market for your product or service? We believe that that there is a big market for our service. Although this kind of thing may be found in larger cities such as London, Birmingham and Manchester, locally there is nothing. Our audience is organised football teams, from junior lads and dads teams to pub teams. With football being one of the most popular leisure activities in the country, there is a large demand for this kind of service.

How Much Can You Realistically Charge Your Customers?

We believe that £12 an hour for children's teams and £15 an hour for adults teams is a fair price. This might seem expensive but if the team splits the price between the players it works out very cheap.

Products

We aren't selling a product, we are providing a service. We already know that there are existing centres, and as far as we know they are successful. We are buying in products such as goals, balls, and Astroturf that we know are already safe because many businesses have used them before us.

Suppliers

All of the equipment we need is-

* Goals,

* Astroturf,

* Balls,

* Fencing.

There should be no problem in obtaining these kind of pieces of equipment. Research would have to be made into the prices of these items. One way of cutting down the costs dramatically is to use existing premises and put our own charge on top of our hiring costs.

Premises

We have short listed plots of land where we could locate.

. The wasteland next to the Britannia Stadium,

2. The grass land next to Pool Dam in Newcastle