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How to open a car garage in the UK 2026
22/09/2026Anyone can repair cars for money in the UK. No licence, no registration, no qualification is required to open a garage and charge for the work. Testing those same cars is different: an MOT may only be carried out at…
How to open a Superdrug shop in the UK: is it possible, who owns it and expansion plans
22/09/2026Superdrug trades from close to 900 shops in the UK and Ireland and reported turnover of £1.63 billion for 2024. It publishes no franchise offer. Every shop belongs to the company, which is itself owned by A.S. Watson and ultimately…
How to open a driving school in the UK 2026
22/09/2026It is illegal to charge for driving lessons in the UK without being on the approved driving instructor register. The registration belongs to the person, not the business, lasts four years and cannot be sold or passed on. Whatever else…
How to write a business plan in the UK 2026
21/09/2026The UK has no franchise disclosure document. No statute requires a franchisor to hand over audited figures, and no regulator checks what it does hand over. That makes the business plan the only place where the numbers are tested before…
How to open a dark kitchen in the UK 2026
17/09/2026Dark kitchens make up around 15% of all food retailers on the major delivery platforms in England, according to publicly funded research led by Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield. That is one food outlet in seven, and…
How to open a dog day care in the UK 2026
16/09/2026UK Pet Food's 2026 Pet Population Survey, based on 8,951 online interviews carried out in January 2026, estimates 15.5 million dogs in UK households, against 12.5 million five years earlier. Commercial dog day care has been a licensable activity in…
How to open a cleaning business in the UK in 2026
16/09/2026No licence is required to start a cleaning business in the UK. That makes it one of the cheapest trades to enter and one of the easiest to get wrong, because the rules that bite are employment rules rather than…
How to open a nursery in the UK in 2026
15/09/2026Providing childcare without being registered with Ofsted is a criminal offence, and so is operating from premises Ofsted has not approved. Registration costs £220 and takes around 12 weeks. Everything that makes a nursery expensive sits elsewhere: the premises, the…
How to open a care agency in the UK in 2026
15/09/2026Registering a care agency with the Care Quality Commission costs nothing to apply for. What it costs instead is time, and a registered manager on the payroll months before the first invoice, because the CQC assesses named individuals and can…
How to open a gym in the UK in 2026
15/09/2026A record 12.2 million people aged 16 and over belong to a UK health and fitness club, 18% of that population, on the UK Health & Fitness Market Report 2026 published in April by ukactive with Sport England. No licence…
