Looking ahead to the New Year! – A blog by Luke Chadwick

As all the turkey and Christmas pudding finally starts to digest and we enter a bit of a lull between Christmas and the new year, I’ve been looking ahead to what’s set to be an incredibly exciting 2025 at the Football Fun Factory! This year has undoubtedly been incredible, with so much going on, but next year is set to be our busiest and most exciting yet, with huge plans and ambitions in place as we continue to grow across the UK and beyond!

One of our biggest announcements to date is the launch of our Management Franchise in 2025, this will see people join our franchise network going straight into managing multiple programmes within their community which will mean even more children having the opportunity to enjoy our unique football experiences. With a high number of our current Head Coaches already moved into the management franchise and seeing huge success, and with all the systems and processes in place we are in a position to now offer this opportunity to the right people from the outset. This is a really game-changing development to our business and a huge amount of hard work has gone into making it possible and we can’t wait to welcome new management franchisees in the coming 12 months!

The year’s set to get off with a bang as we have our November cohort of superstar Head Coaches launching their programmes, this is always a really special time for us all, as the hard work during business planning comes to fruition and the first sessions see loads of children running around with a smile on their face and the Head Coaches do what they do best facilitating fun, engaging sessions!

We will also be having our first onboarding day of the year on the 10th of January as the latest batch of superstars go through an epic day of training and capturing content as they begin their journeys in earnest as FFF Head Coaches, we’ve got a group of wonderful coaches on this cohort and I can’t wait to introduce them and where our programmes will be launching with them in March! We will then be hosting four more onboarding days in March, July, August, and November as our ever-growing team gets even bigger!

And if that’s not enough for January alone, we’ll also see the launch of our programmes at Haven in January! This is so exciting for us all as all 38 Haven Parks across the UK will offer Football Fun Factory experiences to there guests! The guys at Haven have been such a pleasure to work with and this partnership will see both tens of thousands more children experience the FFF and further grow our brand footprint across the UK. Working with world-renowned organisations has always been part of our strategy and is getting us closer to where we want to be as a world leader in our field!

So that’s a little taster of what’s in store for 2025 but one things for sure, there will be plenty more to come as the weeks go on!