Care Franchises

The retail franchise giant, Ableworld are extremely proud to have been voted the winner of the Dealer of the Year UK at the 2019 Access & Mobility Professional Awards.  Ableworld are the leading mobility and stairlift retailer in the UK and this prestigious accolade was awarded for their continued dedication to helping our ageing population and people living with disabilities.Ableworld are the largest mobility retailer in the UK, providing quality products and services to the ever-growing e...

Ableworld Colchester and Ableworld Bridgend were the two main winners at the Ableworld Franchise of the Year Awards Dinner in March. The Awards Dinner was the high point of Ableworld’s two day Annual Franchise Conference held at Wychwood Park Hotel and Golf Club, Crewe. There were speakers from the industry as well as internal presentations from key Ableworld personnel. Ableworld has recently been awarded the prestigious Which Trusted Traders endorsement and representatives from Which wer...

It’s the difference between a poor quality of life, and a good quality of life. Safety, independence, mobility , and nobody knows how much that means than Donna Wilson. The owner of one of Ableworld’s 32 franchises, operating in the franchise territory of Lincoln and Newark, Donna has first hand experience of life as a carer in her personal life, looking after her son and brother. “My own experience was that living aids were expensive and difficult to come by. That’s why I wanted to se...

When is a good time to go into business for yourself? When is the timing just right for a new franchise business? Both of these questions are important considerations for someone thinking of buying a franchise. The answer to the first question is, of course, a personal one and varies from individual to individual. It may be that you’re at a point in your life where you need a fresh challenge. Or owning your own franchise business may have been a long held ambition and you don’t want to feel you...

SINCE Ableworld was founded in 2001 by Mike Williams, the company has grown rapidly into a highly successful nationwide firm with 32 stores and plans to expand across the country in the next few years. Ableworld’s recent growth model of opening stores under its franchise has resulted in retail units being opened from franchise territories in Inverness in the north to Southampton in the south, Colchester in the east to Cardiff in the west. This year Ableworld decided to turn its attention to the...

It’s a year since Donna Wilson and her team took over Ableworld in Newark, and since then her business gone from strength to strength.Donna Wilson joined the Ableworld franchise team as the director of Newark store in October 2014, and has had great success in offering quality mobility products at fantastic prices in the Newark area. She now provides the same support and help in Lincoln. Her Lincoln Mobility store opened in May this year and stocks a wide range of mobility items from toileting a...