Diversification maths

Three options, costed the same way

Everyone gets shown the gross figure. The useful number is what is left after the access track, the water, the rates and the hours it takes off your week.

Row of glamping pods on grass

Three glamping pods

Capital, all three£48,000
Nights per pod, year one90 at £95
Gross£25,650
Running cost− £9,400
Left£16,250

Payback around three years, which is why everyone starts here. What the quotes leave out: the track has to take a car in February, and three pods is the point where you stop doing changeovers yourself.

Vegetables displayed in wooden crates

A farm shop in the old dairy

Fit-out£62,000
Turnover, year one£120,000
Margin at 32%£38,400
Someone to run it− £27,400
Left£11,000

Between five and six years, and the wage is what does it. A shop open six days needs somebody who is not you, and that line above is the whole argument. It works where there is passing trade you can count rather than hope for.

Stone farm buildings behind dry stone walls

Letting the barn for storage

Conversion£18,000
Four units at£85 / month
Gross£4,080
Running cost− £600
Left£3,480

Just over five years and almost no work once it is let. The lowest ceiling of the three and the one nobody writes an article about, which is precisely why it is often the right answer.

The four costs that never appear in a quote

£550 Two or three options, costed side by side

You get the spreadsheet as well as the summary, so the numbers can be changed when a quote comes back different. It is your file, not something you rent from us.

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