the Boutique Gym Blueprint: How to Plan, Fund and Launch a Profitable Fitness Studio in UK

Most gym-opening guides are written by American consultants who have never signed a UK lease. This one was written from the director's chair of a working boutique studio. The Boutique Gym Blueprint walks you through the whole job in the right order: the concept, the catchment, the startup budget, the business plan a bank will actually read, the lease clauses that bite, the licences and insurances nobody warns you about, the pre-sale launch, and the first year that decides everything. Built around a complete worked example - a real-numbers model studio you follow from empty unit to a full timetable - you'll learn how to: - Calculate the three numbers that decide everything: break-even, liveable, and your true ceiling- Fund the build without losing control, from Start Up Loans to asset finance - and what a personal guarantee really means- Read heads of terms, cap your repair liability, and negotiate rent-free periods like a tenant with options- Get the boring stuff right: insurance, the music licence, health and safety, data protection, and fair member contracts- Sell forty founder memberships before you open, then keep churn under four percent with systems that cost nothing With chapter-by-chapter action lists, a startup cost checklist, a break-even worksheet, a founder's year-one calendar, and the honest mistakes that cost real money so yours don't have to. No hype. No franchise pitch. Just the map.