News

In order to provide the best quality training courses to it's franchisees, the TaxAssist Accountants Training Academy has expanded its provision courses being offered and planned with leading global education provider BPP.To keep its network of franchisees up to date with regulatory changes, continuing professional development (CPD) and technical and business training, The TaxAssist Accountants Training Academy runs year-round face-to-face, virtual courses, webinars and events, which now include...

TaxAssist Accountants are delighted to announce that on the day of the Budget, they are able to provide its franchisees with personalised versions of the Budget 2021 material to share and communicate with clients, prospects and business referral contacts.This summary was delivered via an e-mail newsletter to its clients highlighting the announcements that will affect small businesses and the self-employed.The latter was personalised for franchisees’ individual websites highlighting the changes p...

Colchester have found themselves a new Meyers Estate Agents franchisee, as the rapidly growing, award-winning, home-based estate agency franchise has recruited in Essex. The new owner, Miranda Ngongang, moves back to the UK after 9 years working in Zurich to be closer to friends and family, will now run Meyers in Colchester. Mark Meyer, CEO Meyers Estate Agents, explains: “Meyers continues to expand. Our home-based franchise model represents a new vision of estate agency. Our aim is to cont...

Alchemy Virtual Assistance, the franchise designed to help others manage their workloads and much more, newest franchisee is a multilingual mum of twins who is now embarking on her own journey as her own boss as she strives to help “small business owners recover, rebuild, and thrive”.Magda Bilska-Pereda switched careers and started an Alchemy Virtual Assistance (VA) franchise Hub from her home office in Hackney, East London last month, offering flexible, remote admin and PA support to ambitious...

Rishi Sunak delivers what appears to be a clear message of investment, rather than doom and austerity. The Autumn Budget 2021 follows the aim of Prime Minister Johnson in levelling up the country, with a “new economic model”. The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, said his new budget would deliver a stronger economy for British people. People will be given the support they need with the cost of living and levelling up. Rishi Sunak said that while the budget does not draw a line under Covid it does begi...

Now out of lockdown, we need to remember the lessons of how important a complete cleaning regime is. It is not just washing our hands, but also cleaning the touch points at the workplace that improves our wellbeing. The average person is sick 7.7 days per year, this costs UK business £37 billion per year.Consider the following - in the last 30 minutes, you more than likely touched around 300 surfaces. Now think about how that impacts the workplace and the health of your fellow colleagues! Statis...

Following the country’s first lockdown back in March 2020, franchisee, Keith Harrison snapped up his onboarding date the moment lockdown lifted on 13th July and began his training at Screen Rescue head office in Suffolk. Two weeks later, Screen Rescue Stevenage opened its trading doors on 27th July 2021 winning new clients on day one. We ask Keith how he is doing one year on…Q1: How do you feel one year on running your own Screen Rescue franchise business?KH: I’m still very excited, I hon...

Total Clean have been awarded the contract to clean The Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial site in England which is 30.5 acres in total. It was donated by the University of Cambridge and lies on a slope on the outskirts of Cambridge, with the west and south sides framed by woodland. The cemetery contains the remains of 3,811 of our war dead; 5,127 names are recorded on the Walls of the Missing. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. Most died in the Battle of...

No Letting Go, one of the UK's largest lettings suppliers, has been recognised for its outstanding customer service to its clients at the prestigious ESTAS Customer Service Awards 2021, the biggest awards in the UK property industry. The winners were announced at the largest event in the property industry in 2 years held at the Grosvenor House in London and hosted by the country’s favourite TV property presenter Phil Spencer in front of 1,100 guests.The ESTAS determines the best suppliers i...

Papa John's, one of the UK's leading pizza delivery brands, is pioneering cashless tipping across its UK stores as it aims to recruit over 1,000 new team members due to an uplift in sales and new openings. In a collaboration with TiPJAR, the UK’s leading cashless tipping platform, they seek to bring fair and transparent tipping to its teams, and to enable customers to leave tips electronically.Through the TiPJAR platform, it only takes as little as 5 seconds to leave a tip when using Apple Pay o...

To receive the best feedback possible, you have to be the best possible. Opportunities to be your own boss are aplenty now, with hundreds of franchisors all shouting about how good their training and support is, which can make it difficult to stand out from the crowd and hard for prospective franchisees to identify the best franchise opportunities.WorkBuzz already recognises exceptional franchisors through the Best Franchise Awards, the 5 Star Franchisee Satisfaction builds on this, helping to d...

TaxAssist Accountants Group directors finalise series of nine virtual meetings to update franchisees with network developments and plans for the future. TaxAssist Accountants holds twice-yearly regional meetings with its franchisees, and a series of nine, in what is hoped are the last required to be held virtually, have just taken place. Run by Group Operations Director, Sarah Robertson; Group Commercial Director, Daren Moore and Group Business Development Director, James Mattam, the regio...