Share A Story Month 2024
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Have you dreamt of running your own business? Are you looking for an exciting new career working with children & parents in a rewarding & expanding market? If so, we want to meet you!
With Gymboree Play & Music franchise ownership, you get the small business owner experience, but with the added benefits of a big business network. As a franchise owner you have the autonomy to create your class schedule and assign roles to your team, plus the flexibility to establish a work-life balance.
Our franchisees come from all walks of life, but they share a common passion for running their own business and for helping young minds develop. Some were members who brought their little ones to classes, some come from a performing background, and others come with childcare experience. Running a Gymboree Play & Music franchise is both challenging and personally fulfilling. We will train and support you in all required disciplines to help you succeed.
We’re looking to expand our franchise network all over the UK. Get in touch to speak to one of the team about buying a franchise.
If you are interested please complete the form below or email franchise@gymbo.co.uk
This is an excellent question, why not just set up your own business and go it alone? For more than 45 years, Gymboree Play & Music centres have been owned and operated by exceptional people who care about giving children the very best start in life. With more than 700 locations globally, including the UK, and proven franchise success, we’re looking for entrepreneurs who are interested in joining our family of passionate franchisees. You will then get the following benefits:
We can’t provide finance but we can introduce you to a company which specialises in franchising finance. Part of the franchise fee also covers an independent financial check so we can all be sure you’re in a great position to be successful!
We’ll ensure you are thoroughly trained prior to opening your centre with sessions covering Finance, Operations, and Marketing, over 3 days, you’ll also have all the necessary Programming training so you feel comfortable running classes and training your teachers. Furthermore, ad hoc training is provided as and when necessary ongoing. You will also have access other franchisees for mentoring and support, and the wider Gymboree Play & Music global network via a Facebook Group.
You need to have access to a minimum of £50k of funds to buy and set up your UK Gymboree Play & Music franchise. This includes the franchise fee, patented equipment, training fee, an independent financial check, and working capital to fund the set up of your centre.
Gymboree Play & Music began in California in 1976. Our founder, Joan Barnes, recognized the lack of classes or groups for infants and their parents and began a “test” Gymboree Play & Music class. It was an instant success. Two years later, Gymboree Play & Music began to franchise its unique program and we have been growing ever since. We opened our first UK centre in 2004.
If you are interested in a franchise overseas then please email arleta.darusalam@gymboglobal.com
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Both of my children (3.5 years and 11 months) go to Gymboree Play & Music and love it. My toddler goes to their drop-off Lego class which she raves about. It's very creative, working not only on Lego skills but also painting, drawing etc. My infant son loves his Gymboree Play & Music Crawlers class - particularly loves crawling all over their props, through the tunnels, etc. Great way to get the infant crawling over obstacles! Gymboree Play & Music is part of our weekly schedule for both kids and we look forward to participating every week. Invaluable!
Gymboree Play & Music was a lovely and positive experience for my son Leo. We started when he was 9 months and he is now 3 years old, I wish we had started sooner.
He loves the songs (which is part of our daily singing at home), the freedom to explore and he was happy there. He looks forward to class every week and once class is over he will tell everyone about Gymbo and what he did.
For me, I liked that it taught him how to get down safely from a height, how to learn to use his body, and touching on different topics every 2 weeks. It gave me confidence in other environments to trust that he has the ability that he learned from Gymboree Play & Music and to trust him.
I’ve been taking both my newborn and toddler to Gymboree Play & Music for a couple of months now and both boys are really loving the classes and open gym sessions. It’s a great way to meet other mums, entertain toddlers at witching hour(!) and get ideas for sensory play with babies. Sophie and Cat are fantastic and have so much energy and loads of different ideas for the classes, plus make sure the activities it’s help children meet their development milestones as well. Highly recommend this if you’re thinking about joining!! Thanks so much Sophie, Cat and the wider team :-)