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Coventry has brand new MagiKats Tuition Centre, with Rachel Stamper as Principal. The new centre will offer out-of-school tutoring in maths, English and reasoning, for ant child from pre-school to GCSE. Weekly, interactive workshops help children and teenagers improve their subject skills, study skills and confidence. The workshops support the school curriculum and provide a core skills development programme. With study skills, thinking skills and problem-solving skills included at every leve...

Drain Doctor Anglia has been presented with the Armed Forces Covenant Silver Award at the exclusive ceremony on 14th of November 2019. Director of Drain Doctor Anglia, Rob Simpson, attended the event with his wife Sam and was one of 19 East Anglian businesses to be presented with this award during 2019. The event took place at Emmanuel College, Cambridge with the Awards being presented by Air Commodore Paul O’Neill and H.M. Lord Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire, Mrs Julie Spence OBE. The Silver a...

Right at Home Cardiff & Newport, one of the UK’s largest homecare providers, celebrate after picking up not one, not two, but three awards at the Regional Great British Care Awards: The Care Team Award, The Frontline Leaders Award, and The Workforce Development Award. The awards, held at Cardiff Park Plaza on Thursday 7th November, celebrate excellence across the care sector had more than 100 people in attendance. The regional Great British Care Awards events are held across the UK which cu...

Papa John’s franchisee, Atif Maroof Zar and his brothers Umair Ramay and Amir Maroof have recognized the potential in running a multi-unit franchise network with the launch of their fourth pizza delivery franchise store with Papa John’s within the Bristol Kingswood franchise territory.  Hungry to expand further, a fifth franchise store opening is set to follow early next year. Atif explains:  “Being a multi-unit franchisee is hard work but there is more potential to develop. ...

Drain Doctor®, the UK’s leading full service combined commercial and domestic plumbing and drainage franchise network, has welcomed it’s first solo female franchisee, Rachael Parry, with the launch of her Drain Doctor drainage franchise within the exclusive Edinburgh franchise territory. Prior to the launch of her new plumbing and drainage franchise territory, Rachael spent 14 years working in Financial Services where she held the position of Product Manager at several blue-chip organisations,...

Christine Kelly has come a long way since launching her Little Kickers business in 2002. Now in over 30 countries and teaching over 65,000 children a week, Franchise Supermarket finds out more from the entrepreneur herself. It’s not hard to see in 2019 just how popular not only the Little Kickers service is to thousands of parents, but also the business model, that has helped over 300 people become business owners, across 6 continents. But when was it obvious to Christine that the demand for...

Quality homecare franchise Right at Home have been awarded Five Star Franchisee Satisfaction status. What does this mean to someone thinking about joining the UK network. Deciding to leave employment and start your own business is a huge step. The desire to build something for yourself seems to grow, the more frustrated you become… But how can you feel secure in your potential for success with your chosen business model? Whilst we can’t see into the future, we can help you to feel con...

Driver Hire – the leading transport & logistics recruitment franchise network – has won ‘Best Website’ at the Franchise Marketing Awards for 2019. This recognition for the franchsie recruitment giants website was based on builds on investment in the website and a project to redesign it. The new website was launched in May 2018 following its ground-up redevelopment. Driver Hire made it paramount that franchisees from within the network were fully involved during the process.. A key focus of the...

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...

ColourFence, one of the UK’s leading storm proof franchise, has added to its already extensive training programme for new franchisees.The fencing franchise has always offered its franchisees a thorough training programme but have decided to give new franchisees more valuable information by increasing head office training from 2 to 3 weeks.Designed to cover all aspects of the business, from marketing through sales and from quoting to overseeing installations, the new course equips franchisees wit...

Driver Hire, the UK’s leading recruitment franchisor, has added a new franchisee to its expanding and successful nationwide network – Andrew Partridge. Earlier this year he acquired the franchise rights for Driver Hire’s Hereford & Worcester franchise territory and recently completed his first five month’s trading as a Driver Hire recruitment franchisee. Andrew has got away to a flying start, increasing monthly turnover by 200%. Several things attracted Andrew to the business, not least th...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s has opened its latest store within the Wollaton, Nottingham franchise territory.  Kam Bains and Husband Sukhy, first joined the Papa John’s fast food franchise network as franchisees nine years ago and Wollaton is their fifth franchise store within the region. Kam confirms: “Nottingham is clearly ‘hot’ for Papa John’s!  Enquiries from residents in Wollaton, plus numerous customers coming for collection showed us now was the time to open a new s...