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Extra Help have recruited a number of new franchisees over the past few months thanks to their flexible home-help and domestic services they provide, alongside the fact they have remained open during the pandemic to help their clients for all their needs. This story is a warm welcoming to Adrian Preece, who has joined Extra Help in Shropshire.  Although Adrian lives in Telford, his area stretches from Whitchurch in the north to Ludlow in the south, then from Shrewsbury in the east to Oswes...

We often hear success stories of how franchisees struggled to find their niche prior to joining a franchise. However for Nicola Eden, the new owner of Extra Help in Bexley, she is an example of a franchisee who experienced a run of bad luck in her career and personal life, leading to her decision to become a business owner and mistress of her own destiny.Nicola is a lovely, single mum to three daughters from Bexleyheath. Prior to launching her new franchise on 1st March this year, she worked in...

It was a successful night for Extra Help at the Trustist Awards, as they were awarded the Top Franchise Diamond Award. Extra Help provides local communities with much needed home-help services, supporting clients with tasks such as cleaning, ironing, meal preparation, dog-walking, DIY tasks, looking after children, gardening etc. We have a network of 33 franchisees covering 3.3 million homes across the UK. Find your local branch here. As we’ve mentioned in previous blogs, our franchisees h...

Brokerplan Network franchisee, Chris Cullen of Lunaria Finance has recently completed on a £1.1 million development loan for an experienced property developer - An amazing achievement! The client in this case had previously attempted to obtain a loan via their usual broker who, unfortunately, was unable to place the deal for them. After receiving a direct marketing communication from Chris, the client decided to give it another try, to see if Chris could secure them the funding needed to get th...

Mathnasium's new Franchise Operations Manager Louise Harris believes that everything’s adding up to a bright future for Mathnasium’s franchisees. Louise Harris, fresh from touring all of its 13 centres in the UK and speaking to all the franchisees, found a lot of plusses, few minuses and no divisions wherever she went.“The first thing that struck me was that everybody is in a positive frame of mind,” she says. “A few people have been a bit beaten about by COVID and the restrictions, but all...

To make things easier and to showcase all accolades and activities, all the TaxAssist Direct Group’s activities in the UK and abroad are now on one dedicated website.The TaxAssist Direct Group Ltd, the franchisor for the TaxAssist Accountants brand, has launched a dedicated website www.taxassistgroup.com for the benefit of investors across the world. James Mattam, Group Business Development Director, explains: “Some time ago we identified a need to showcase all the Group’s activities in the UK...

TaxAssist Accountant franchisee Bari Singh, has opened a new shop at 3 Woodside Road in Amersham in order to help his local community with their financial problems.For Bari Singh, becoming his own boss is a dream come true, following 25 years of working in accounting industry.Keen to make a difference to the businesses in his local area, he is now the proud owner of TaxAssist Accountants Amersham, which provides tax, accounting, payroll, business advice and much more, to start-ups, sole traders,...

Barking Mad Dog Care is proud to announce the launch of their new website, www.barkingmad.uk.com. The dog care services franchise have got a newly designed site that features a clean and responsive modern design, enhanced functionality, alongside easy access to essential information.The redesign includes aesthetic enhancements to provide a more engaging user experience and enhanced navigation to help visitors easily identify their local dog sitting branch no matter where you are in the UK. The s...

This years prestigious HealthInvestor Awards UK 2021 will feature Promedica24 as a finalist. Europe’s largest provider of live-in care services, has been shortlisted for two awards at this year’s UK HealthInvestor Awards.The company has been recognised in the ‘Domiciliary Care Provider of the Year’ category for its excellence in providing high-quality, personalised care solutions to people in their own homes. The second category, ‘Recruiter of the Year’, focuses on highlighting innovation and ac...

Oliver Nowell, Wessex Lakeland Verandahs franchisee owner, explains how it has always been a dream of his to buy into a franchise ever since he left College - it was a long-term goal that he was determined would eventually come true, and it has.Oliver is now the boss of Lakeland Verandahs Wessex, following a three-year spell working in the construction industry, where his main focus was landscaping in which he was making a great career for himself.However not long after entering the sector,...

Despite having the worst trading year to date due to COVID-19, franchisees at the Maths tuition service Mathnasium are celebrating a doubling of turnover.Master Franchisee John Preston says turnover in his first year in charge of the UK network rose by 109%, year on year, even though Mathnasium was hit, like most businesses, by successive lockdowns and restrictions. He attributes the network’s resilience and success to being able to switch overnight to an online tuition portal that had been unde...

Razzamataz, which found its fame by being a Dragons’ Den backed theatre school franchise, is delighted to announce that once again for the fourth time, they have been awarded a five star satisfaction rating on the response from its own franchisees.The Franchise Satisfaction Benchmark is provided by WorkBuzz - a leading independent franchise consultancy that helps reputable franchisors to improve franchise network performance and growth Razzamataz Theatre Schools were delighted with its response...