Onside franchises
Do you have what it takes to run one?
Onside franchises
Do you have what it takes to run one?
Our goal is to build and develop a respected franchise network by utilising the high-quality services and proven operational systems established by Onside Coaching. The franchise model has been developed by BFA affiliated Consultants and Lawyers and will set franchisees up with everything they need to successfully run an Onside Coaching Franchise.
Do you have what it takes to become an Onside franchisee?
When becoming a new Onside Franchisee you would be drawing on the experience of three directors who have a depth of knowledge and understanding of the market, as well as a team of amazing people behind us who are on hand to support you.
Whatever you need, we will be with you every step of the way to help your Franchise succeed.
What sets us apart?
Our website is the thing that really sets our franchise opportunity apart from other sports coaching companies you might have seen. The booking system takes away the need for a huge amount of time to be spent on paperwork, meaning you can focus on the fun side of the business instead! And that's not all, an Onside Franchise would also give you:
- A protected territory (an exclusion zone in big cities)
- BFA Associate Members meaning a wealth of knowledge and training offered to franchise and franchisees
- Exclusive use of the Onside Coaching name and brand
- Access to our 'Onside Curriculum' including all lesson plans and our custom-built assessment system
- All equipment and uniform
- Plus, much, much more!
How to find out more…
We are looking for confident, experienced and dedicated coaches who, in return for a Franchise Fee, would run one of the new company's Franchises. If you'd be interested in finding out more, please send us an email and we would be delighted to send you our Onside Franchise Prospectus and discuss our offering further with you.
30.11. 21
HSBC British Franchise Awards 2021
What a night! We may not have bought home the trophy but to be involved in such a prestigious ceremony was incredible. It was great to see such a huge turnout and some franchisee awards going to companies such as Costa and McDonalds it makes us feel even prouder of Lottie’s journey. Pip the CEO of the BFA was fun, energetic and made the evening a great laugh.
Lottie you are a winner to us and we cant wait for next year.
Who will be our newest franchisee that may be up for an award?
22.11.21
Rich Ireland – Franchise Owner of Redditch and Alcester launches his Girls only football club in Alcester. The community have been engaging with this and it looks like it’s a great start for the course. He will be running more sessions after Christmas and looking to expand the course throughout the term.
Our franchisees are all very different with different goals in mind. Whether your goal is to make your franchise a community-based sports company or as a priority to work in as many schools as possible. The franchise model supports the individuals’ goals in mind.
27.10.21
A further investment of £200 million per year over the next 3 financial years for the holiday activities and food programme has been granted. This investment is going to have huge benefits on our children. During Summer, as a network, we fed over 2000 children and kept 2000 children active. This to us was a great achievement and we can’t wait to be able to top that number over the next 3 years.
As a franchise owner what would be your goal? The Directors started Onside Coaching as a holiday scheme provider and built on that. Now might be a great time to consider this?
20.09.21
A very proud moment for Onside Coaching. Lottie Jones – Director of Onside Coaching East Warwickshire has been nominated for the ‘Next Generation’ Award at the HSBC British Franchise Association Awards 2021. She is 1 of 4 out of 80 applicants to be nominated. A day of filming and interviews to go, then an evening of celebration for us at the awards ceremony on the 30th November.
At just 25 Lottie has shown resilience and determination to get where she is today. With little to no business background, Lottie has driven her business with passion and learnt along the way, building relationships with schools, parents, staff, her own employees and of course the children. Whatever the outcome of the evening. We could not be prouder.
17.07.21
Our network or franchisees have now all been accepted to deliver HAF courses during the Summer. The franchisees are all prepping for a busy Summer ahead. They will deliver a range of activities such as different sports, forest school, football, dance, and team challenge. The Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF) is funded by the Government supporting local families on benefits and those known to the services. We feel privileged to be accepted as a provider in supporting this scheme and are forever grateful for this opportunity. Not only is it supporting the families but supporting our businesses too.
If you are thinking if becoming a franchise owner and want to know more about our holiday schemes or business model, please do not hesitate to contact us. [email protected]
21.06.21
Check out our BFA profile over at https://www.thebfa.org/franchise-directory/onside-coaching/ We are looking forward to gain so much from being affiliated with The BFA. Not only as a Franchisor but the training the Fracnhisees will get too. Are you ready to apply?
20.05.21
SUCCESS in becoming 'The BFA' affiliated
It’s official. OSC Franchising are now BFA affiliated.
OSC Franchising now look forward to sharing why we are deserving of becoming part of the British Franchise Association.
What does this mean? And why do we feel it is important?
The British Franchise Association has been responsible for setting high quality standards for UK franchising since 1977 and therefore provides fantastic opportunities to people eager to invest with franchise brands. The association delivers a globally leading education portfolio and provides a value rich platform for franchisors, franchisees, and professional advisors to connect.
It is important for us at Onside to make sure that every person that joins our team truly knows we follow such prestigious guidelines to provide potential business owners the highest quality support, and that they can trust in our business model to help them grow a successful business.
The BFA has created standards that comply with the European Code of Ethics for franchising. Being a representative at the European Franchise Federation shows considerable commitment from the association, and that franchising in the BFA remains of high quality with expertise to support franchisors and franchisees.
OSC Franchising now look forward to continuous support and updates from the BFA and the access to several training courses, events and joining in with many campaigns they run. This will undoubtedly resonate throughout the network of business owners we currently have and those potential business owners too.
06.04.2021
Offering of Holiday Activities and Food placements on all our holiday courses. HAF
On 8 November 2020, the government announced that the holiday activities and food programme will be expanded across the whole of England in 2021. The programme has provided healthy food and enriching activities to disadvantaged children since 2018.
Keeping in line with the Government Guidelines Onside Coaching and all its franchisees that are running courses this Easter have been granted to accept the HAF funding.
We were thrilled to be able to accept the HAF funding so more children will be able to access organised out of school activities, they will no longer experience ‘unhealthy holidays,’ or social isolation. This being one of our key goals in the company. Our courses will have a positive impact on children and young people and will eliminate the above. We are proud to be affiliated with Ofsted and are a trusted company to provide such scheme.
As a result of this programme, we want children who attend our courses to:
- eat more healthily over the school holidays
- be more active during the school holidays
- take part in engaging and enriching activities which support the development of resilience, character and wellbeing along with their wider educational attainment
- be safe and not to be socially isolated
- have a greater knowledge of health and nutrition
- be more engaged with school and other local services
We also want to ensure that the families who participate in this programme:
- develop their understanding of nutrition and food budgeting
- are signposted towards other information and support, for example, health, employment and education
We look forward to opening even more spaces during Summer and Christmas, to give even more children the opportunity to join in. With most of our courses being ‘SOLD OUT’ this Easter, we are already looking at ways we can operate bigger courses throughout the rest of the year.
23.03.21
Fully booked Easter for Rugby and East Warwickshire.
A phenomenal start back to ‘normal life’ for our Rugby and East Warwickshire franchise. With 2 weeks to go until holiday courses start Lottie has maxed out her course running at Lawrence Sheriff School. We cannot say we are surprised either. Lottie strives for perfection in every aspect of her business whether it being in schools, holiday courses or in the community, and I am sure those of you that know Lottie will agree.
She has spent many hours organising the course. Making sure all 60 children will be kept safe by completing walk rounds of the site to work out where her bubbles of 15 will eat, use toilets, and participate in the activities. Safe to say she has ‘nailed’ it.
Lottie is spending most of the week cleaning and organising kit and prepping her team, a recent Facebook post even shows Lottie hanging her freshly cleaned bibs out to dry.
I am sure she is just as excited as all 60 children that will be attending throughout Easter. Well done Lottie and her team over in the Rugby and East Warwickshire Franchise.
Feb 2021
Park Life Launch
Check out our blog on our Park Life campaign. We want to make a huge impact within the community and bring life back to the parks that we have become very accustomed to.
Park Life - Get active in your local park (onsidecoaching.co.uk)
The Park Life campaign includes a trail of different challenges for children to test their skills around Victoria Park in Leamington Spa, St Nicholas Park in Warwick and Abbey Fields in Kenilworth.
We are now expanding our Park Life campaign to Daventry Country park in our Rugby and East Warwickshire franchise.
These ideas are shared across our network of franchises so that you as a business owner will always have fresh innovative ideas to ride with.
Nov 2020
How Onside are on top form when it comes to safeguarding and protecting children.
This pandemic has had detrimental effects on children. Not only academically but physically, emotionally, and socially too. Unfortunately, school is sometimes the safest place for them. For us, safeguarding and protecting children is the most important part of our job.
Not only do we invest in having Adrian Overs, Education Safeguarding Manager for Warwickshire County council, deliver safeguarding training to our staff annually. We have now opted for a recognised Safeguarding training provider that is to be completed online. SSS Safeguarding Training and assessment. A lot of schools are now using this, and courses are refreshed as the policies are.
Our Onside Central Team were the first to complete many of the courses with very positive feedback. Each course has a video that MUST be watched, case studies that also need to be watched, course notes that can be downloaded and used later, and then an assessment that is multiple choice. You must complete the assessment with 100% pass grade. You can then download your certificate for your personal progress file.
The courses include child protection topics, Safeguarding thematics, Safeguarding lead roles including designated safeguarding role, and other courses such as GDPR, e-safety and health and safety.
These are minimum operating standards to become a franchise owner as we pride ourselves in being the highest qualified and professional people in our field.
Want to know more about becoming an owner? Please use the link at the bottom of the page to send us an email.
September 2020
Welcome to the Team Sarah – Digital Marketing Manager
Welcome to the team Sarah. We are excited for Sarah to share her innovative and creative spark with us to link all 3 of our business’s together through the digital marketing World. Sarah is currently at Northampton University and will soon be going into her third year. Sarah will provide the Nation with information about our Online Booking software, Our Franchise Network and Our Childcare services.
She will form part of the strategy team, to support the growth of ongoing Franchise businesses, creating network opportunities and prospects to join our team.
We are grateful to have a specific in-house digital marketing manager that can work entirely on our business and share her expertise in the field. Welcome on-board Sarah!
Franchise Redditch and Alcester
Healthy and Active lifestyle programme hits Alcester
Wow, just wow! What an amazing day for all the children at Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School in Alcester.
The programme provided a wealth of knowledge from Director of Onside Coaching Redditch and Alcester Franchise – Rich Ireland. Rich shared his expertise in living healthy and active lifestyles by providing sessions in different topics that covered the programme. Topics included learning about heart rate, making fruit skewers, fitness, yoga, creating healthy plates and many more exciting activities.
If you have ever met Rich, you will know Rich is passionate about everything he is involved in. So, once he had this idea, he wanted to make such a difference with this programme in which he did with Our Lady’s. He already knew that this is exactly what schools need, with teachers being already stacked with teaching, marking and all other extra-curricular they are supposed to fit in the day, Rich knew this is exactly where he could support schools.
The programme came about after reading disturbing statistics from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Charity, ‘Almost 1 in 5 children are overweight or obese when they start Primary school, rising to 1 in 3 when they start secondary. By 2020 it is estimated half of all children will be overweight or obese.’
Rich set to work with the support from all the teachers from the school in leading on sessions throughout the day. He held an assembly and got all the children raring to go!
It was a great day had by all and the feedback from the teachers and especially the children was great! Rich cannot wait to get into more schools to provide them with enrichment days in healthy and active lifestyles.
As a franchise we applaud anyone that creates a new idea that can be explored by all franchise owners. Well done Rich for bringing a new initiative to the table.
Franchise Oxon and Gloucs
Nick Hibberd - Providing Wrap around care
It is great to see all our franchisees developing their business in different ways! Nick has been a huge example of this. He has provided the Onside Brand with a new arm in the Wrap Around Care service. Whilst we have the Online systems to support this, Nick has created an innovative wrap around service that the school love and is ‘hassle free’ for the school. He provides them with the food, booking, games and activities and everything and more you want from a wrap around care. He has a close relationship with their partner schools and hopes to be working with those too.
Another great example of how we love to hear where the passion of each individual franchise lies and where they want to take their business.
What is your passion? And how can we support you in delivering this at Onside Coaching?
April 2019
Welcome to the Team - Franchise Manager Leanne Humphries
Leanne Humphries joins us with over 14 years of sports coaching experience and 8 years of business management in our field. Leanne will bring to the team a depth of knowledge that will support franchisees in growing their business and remaining the highest possible quality within the industry. Having built relationships with hundreds of schools around the Midlands she hopes to train others to be able to do the same.
She looks forward to the franchise network growing, so she can help more people run a successful business.
Third Onside franchise launched
Introducing the newest addition to the Onside franchise family, Ryan Yearsley. (pictured left centre)
Ryan is the owner of the Onside Coaching Coventry franchise and will begin to offer sporting opportunities to schools and children in and around the Coventry area in January.
Ryan has previously owned a successful sports coaching franchise in another part of the UK for 10 years before relocating with his young family to Warwickshire. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge that he has gained from running a large children's sports coaching company.
Tom Sidwell, Director of Onside Coaching said, "Experience is invaluable in both business and teaching and its brilliant to have Ryan on board, he's been there, done that and now he's got the Onside T-Shirt! For present and future Onside franchisees to draw on his experiences is an amazing opportunity."
Alongside launching his own business, Ryan will also be joining the OSC Franchising Team as a mentor to provide present and future franchisees with additional support, guidance and advice.
Ryan commented, "I’m excited to take on the Coventry area and getting as many children involved in sport as I can. It's also an exciting time to be at the forefront of Onside’s franchise model and working closely with the other franchises to help support them is something that I am really looking forward to."
Ryan joins Nick Hibberd and Lottie Jones as the third franchise to officially launch. As the Onside network continues to grow it's more great news for all involved.
We're in business to help look after, inspire and encourage children of all abilities to be confident and active.
