The British Heart Foundation are widely regarded as having the most successful and professionally run chain of shops in the charity sector.
We are currently looking for new properties for our four most popular store formats: Fashion, Home, Value and Home & Fashion.
We trade from nearly 700 shops, over 180 of which are larger format Home or Home & Fashion. We provide a quality retail environment for shoppers, class leading shop fit and generate significant pedestrian footfall. Each year BHF shops generate around £30 million in profit which is spent on our fight against heart disease.
Fashion store requirements
The requirements for fashion shops are:
- minimum 1,800 square feet, ideally over one floor
- minimum 4.5m frontage
- high visibility, prime and edge or prime preferred.
High streets and shopping centres considered.
Value store requirements
The requirements for value stores are:
- 4 to 6,000 square feet
- minimum 5m frontage
- high visibility, prime and edge of prime preferred.
High streets, retail parks and shopping centres considered.
Home store requirements
The requirements for home stores are:
- 7,500 to 12,000 square feet
- a large store frontage (minimum 10 metres)
- customer parking or parking nearby.
Retail parks and shopping centres considered.
Home and fashion store requirements
Our largest stores combine both Fashion and Home formats. They range from 10,500 square feet to 25,000 square feet. They operate to the same requirement criteria as our Home stores.
Lease structure
We usually take institutional leases for a term of 10 years. For Home and Home & Fashion stores, short term opportunities with a minimum of 3 years will also be considered.
Contact us
If you have a commercial property which may suit our requirements, please contact:
Ben Randall MRICS, Acquisitions Manager
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 07790881133