Government Plans Welcomed

FranchisingWorks Programme Director, Simon McNeill-Ritchie,welcomed Government plans to help people off benefits into work announced today. “Franchising is a proven way to help people into self-employment and to create further …

Latest Unemployment Figures

The latest statistics show that the number of people claiming unemployment benefit fell in December. The claimant count dropped by 4,100 people in December to 1.46 million, the Office for …

Launch of Social Franchising Paper

The Shaftesbury Partnership have published Scaling Up Success, a paper looking at how lessons from commercial franchising can be applied to the social sector. Over the last 12 months, The …

FW Workshops Underway

The FranchisingWorks pilot in Greater Manchester opened its doors to the general public on 11 January with its first ever workshop. Interest in the workshop, entitled ‘Finding Out About Franchising’, …