Business idea - any thoughts welcome!

gingerdad

if you refer to the other thread, there are a couple in this country and even one for sale fully done and ready to go

Claytone

This might be an idea you could pitch to a school board or something. They could fund it (including your pay) and then you drive around to different schools for their recesses.

Maybe the kids wouldn't have to play in the bus, but you could drive up, empty the bus of its toys, then pack it back in after. Then the kids could play outside or in a school gymnasium.

lincroft1710

claypearn wrote: »

This might be an idea you could pitch to a school board or something. They could fund it (including your pay) and then you drive around to different schools for their recesses.

Maybe the kids wouldn't have to play in the bus, but you could drive up, empty the bus of its toys, then pack it back in after. Then the kids could play outside or in a school gymnasium.

That might work in Canada, it won't over here! Schools are run by local councils and money is far too tight for such a scheme.

starchild1972

lincroft1710 wrote: »

That might work in Canada, it won't over here! Schools are run by local councils and money is far too tight for such a scheme.

Not all schools are run by councils..
Independant schools, free schools & acadamies are not council controlled (thank the gods).

lincroft1710

starchild1972 wrote: »

Not all schools are run by councils..
Independant schools, free schools & acadamies are not council controlled (thank the gods).

I know as I went to an independent school. But non council schools are even less likely to pay someone to drive a playbus, which is what claypearn was suggesting.

madmonkey01

plzhelpmesave! wrote: »

Hi
Just an initial idea that I wanted to get opinions/comments on please!

I took my kids to an indoor playhouse the other day with cheap entry offer and they loved it. Last couple of days, news has been full of into about obesity in children as young as 4.

Do you think a mobile childrens play bus with soft play activities that enccouraged them to play, jump and excercise in the bus would work?

It would be for birthdays & event bookings at weekends and then I would look to go to surestart centres, nurseries, primary schools in the week - with reasonable charge or contracts with providers. We could spread the healthy eating message at the same time as giving the kids fun.

I already have contacts through my work for many of these places & would keep prices reasonable to encourage regular and repeat bookings.

What do people think? I know times are hard for most of us, but I was amazed at how busy the play centre was, 2 birthday parties going on while we were there and well over 100 kids - so parents are still spending money on their kids.

Also, I'm from an asian background so as a USP, I could tap into more asian contacts and events, offer a halal menu & tie into key asian events/themes (if there was any demand!) as well as mainstream parties.

I live in Birmingham so very centrally located and could cover a wide geographical area.

What do people think of this as an initial business ideas? There are buses out there and a local play franchise (Funky Monkeys) is launching their own mobile bus service shortly, so they must have seen some potential in the idea...

Many thanks for reading!

very weird you would suggest such a thing.

my mother set up doing the exact same thing in Lincoln a few months ago.
its going well for her so far.

cost her about 30k to get set up though.