Lease and Purchase Plans, outright purchase and Contract Hire

To assist with your purchase, Red Kite have a wide choice of finance options to choose from, including Lease and Purchase Plans as well as outright purchase. Contract Hire is now a popular choice for many organisations, allowing a fixed monthly rental to be set aside and with the exception of fuel and insurance, no additional costs need to be factored in.

Red Kite Carefree Minibus Leasing has been designed to provide flexible finance for your chosen minibus. You choose your deposit or trade in your existing vehicle; Red Kite provides one contract, one fixed monthly payment and one point of contact for all minibus requirements.

  • Fixed Motoring Costs
  • Budgets tightly controlled
  • Monthly, Annual or Quarterly payment options
  • Peace of mind with full maintenance packages
  • VAT registered businesses can reclaim 100% of the VAT
  • Off Balance sheet funding
  • Avoid large upfront capital outlay, low initial down payment
  • No depreciation or vehicle disposal costs or worries
  • Nationwide main dealer backup and service facilities
  • Ongoing advice and support from your own dedicated service support manager, who will personally manage your Minibus experience throughout, including the manufacture, sign writing and delivery of the Minibus to your premises.


Finance subject to status. Terms and conditions apply.

  • Retain ownership of the vehicle
  • Not tied to mileage restrictions
  • Fixed interest rates for the contract period
  • Shown as a fixed asset on Balance Sheet
  • Early settlements can be made within contract period
  • Use now – Pay later
  • Differed annual payments on
  • Contract Hire or Lease Purchase
  • With or without maintenance packages
  • Fixed payments and interest rate for entire length of the contract
  • Full support team to assist you throughout the contract
  • Vehicle ownership options at end of contract
  • No deposit required
  • Payment on delivery and acceptance of your vehicle
  • Nationwide main dealership backup and service facilities
  • We provide ongoing advice and support. Our staff will personally manage your Minibus experience throughout, including the manufacture, sign writing and delivery of the Minibus to your premises.

We have our own dedicated professional team of CPC / D1 qualified delivery / handover drivers to further compliment the arrival of your new minibus and ensure complete customer satisfaction.

Why Choose Us?

Type Approval

We manufacture and supply a range of quality, fully Type Approved 9 – 17 minibuses as regulated by the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA).

Warranty

Every new minibus is supplied with a 3 year Manufacturer’s Warranty. All Red Kite Approved preowned minibuses are supplied with a comprehensive Red Kite Warranty.

After Sales Support

As the UK’s leading supplier of school and specialist minibus, our ‘After Sales Support Team’ provide an unrivalled level of customer service and care.

What our customers say

Rated 4.7 / 5 based on 28,370 reviews Showing our 4 & 5 star reviews
Excellent Service
"Excellent service from initial enquiry. The staff were friendly, helpful and engaging. Excellent help from Nick, Annette and the entire workshop team. After Sales service also faultless so far. "

Charity, Dorset

Quick Turnaround
Thanks for the quick turnaround of our Peugeot Boxer. Excellent service through Stuart, your professional prompt response really got us out of a possibly difficult situation with regards to our after school pick up. Pass on my thanks to Nick who answered my first call on Monday morning with professionalism.

School

Great Service
I would like to say thank you to your team for a great service. You really helped us out, we had the minibus returned with a broken step. You collected it that day and repaired it and returned it following day. Again thanks for all your help with this, just thought I needed to email and say how impressed I was.

Upper School, Dorset

Helpful Throughout
Redkite’s sales staff have been helpful throughout the process they have explained all the issues clearly around the move from ownership to long-term lease, this was our number one reason for choosing Redkite over other providers who may have been slightly more competitive on price

Grammar School, Dorset

Helpful and Approachable
I would like to go on record to say that the service that you have provided has been excellent all through the process, you have been very professional, helpful, approachable and informative as were the members of staff who were involved in the delivery and handover.

High School, Greater Manchester

Frequently Asked Questions

Have a question about Red Kite, Minibus ownership or Finance? To assist, you can find the answers to the most common questions asked by our customers below.

Red Kite are an independent limited company established in 1982 by the father and son team of Dan and John Maskell. Dan having been involved in the specialist minibus conversions since leaving the HM Royal Navy in 1965 had a wealth of experience and knowledge to pass on. John’s brother, David, joined Red Kite in 1989 to continue in the family tradition. Dan later retired in 2000 with John and David taking the company on to new heights.

For over three decades experience supplying the nations schools and colleges Red Kite are a totally independent minibus supplier. We offer impartial advice and unbeatable customer nationwide service. We are also fully accredited Peugeot minibus conversion specialists. Having taken delivery of your minibus we offer a nationwide full back up and after sales support service.

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We supply most makes and models including
Peugeot, Ford, Renault, Mercedes, VW, Citreon, Fiat, Iveco

Red Kite own and operate a large fleet of minibuses, we therefore have a continuous supply of late low mileage one owner pre owned stock. All vehicles are fully refurbished/serviced and given a new class 5 MOT prior to sale. Every used minibus is covered by our unique 12 months or 12,000 mile No Quibble Warranty. We also have a good business relationship with major vehicle manufacturers and can always source almost new vehicles with great savings on new prices.


We are based on the Hampshire/Dorset border but operate a nationwide service from our purpose built premises