When you’re catering for the entertainment needs of young children by setting up a soft play centre, it’s crucial to invest in safe and suitable kit. In the summer of 2010, Johnson Reed was delighted to help the Treasure Chest Soft Play Centre with start-up soft play equipment finance to ensure that only the best … Read more

It seems the need to keep fit is ever-present, and if you suddenly get the urge to go mountaineering, Scotland is a good place to be. No, not the Cairngorms or the Grampians, but at the Gym 64 leisure centre in Fife. They’ve just taken delivery of Scotland’s first Freedom Climber – a revolutionary rotating … Read more

Many motorists on the M60 around Manchester have marvelled at the iconic Chill Factore building near the Trafford Centre. It’s been Manchester’s leading indoor real snow centre for some time, but now there’s much more than just skiing and snowboarding on offer. They are now concentrating on kids’ activities to provide great days out for … Read more

If work is your first space, and home is your second – welcome to The Third. That’s how The Third Space describes its leisure and fitness operations in Soho and Marylebone. But a fitness club is dependent on state-of-the-art equipment and specialised personal training facilities to pull in the clientele – especially in a competitive … Read more

Based in Keighley, West Yorkshire, OPM are multi award-winning printers of high quality self-adhesive labels, laminates, sachets, film, flow wrap and flexible packaging. They recently identified the need to refresh their IT infrastructure with a new server, desktop PCs and specialist print software, so they came to Johnson Reed for some help with Software Equipment … Read more

When it comes to raising finance quickly and easily, there’s a better way than putting up with the hassle of negotiating with banks. Talk to Johnson Reed. That’s what Glass Replacements did. They’re a family run business based in Coventry, and supply both trade and the public. They produce everything from sealed units to kitchen … Read more

When we were approached by Salty’s Fish and Chip Shop in Mabelthorpe to help them get leasing for a new chip shop frying range of equipment, we knew we could help. We were asked to provide £35,000 worth of chip shop equipment leasing to Salty’s, with a period of finance of 36 months. Their old … Read more

Continuing our recent spate of dealings with Soft Play centres across the UK, we’ve been asked to work with The Zone Soft Play centre in Lancater. The Zone has been operating for over 18 months now – the brainchild of husband and wife team Jeff Farrow and Gillian Peet – and features a four-tier structure … Read more

One of the most frequent requests we receive for equipment leasing is for new and upgraded office IT equipment. When we heard from Timberwise (UK) Limited – one of the UK’s leading property care companies – requesting finance for just that, we knew we could help out. We provided £11,000 worth of IT equipment leasing … Read more

We’re often approached by Fish & Chip Shops looking to upgrade their equipment as it gets older, especially as our chip shop equipment leasing deals are very flexible and very manageable – even for small chip shops to take on. That’s what happened when The Whiddon Valley Fryer contacted us, looking to get equipment leasing … Read more