Walfinch is a home care agency that provides personalised health care at home to individuals and families nationwide from offices across the UK.
Start your own local home care business with training, support and guidance from Walfinch
We’re different: at Walfinch we aim to provide home care that people want, rather than simply what they need. We’re growing, and we are looking for people to join us. If you want the personal and financial rewards that come from running your own business providing bespoke visiting and live-in care at home, talk to us. We have the business and care expertise to help you start and succeed in this fast-growing sector.
The Care Home Alternative
Home care is a sizable, expanding, and under-served market. With a Walfinch home care franchise, you have the chance to improve your neighbourhood while earning a solid living. This set of benefits is rare in business.
An alternative to care homes is offered by Walfinch. We are aware that more than 90% of people say they would prefer to receive care in their own home if they ever needed it. Franchisees of Walfinch provide customers with home care in a compassionate, expert manner while upholding ethics, excellence, teamwork, and fun.
As a Walfinch franchisee, you can
- Work in a rewarding sector, helping others
- Support your local community through offering employment opportunities
- Achieve business independence
- Build an asset: 60% of Walfinch franchisees reach £290,000 turnover in year one
- Potentially generate £575,000 in turnover by year three
- Join a welcoming, supportive team
- Enjoy your job and have fun!
In addition, we offer customer management systems enabling you and your team to log clients’ medications, eating habits, hobbies, and anything else required to provide a five-star care service.
As an award-winning organisation for franchisee satisfaction, we pride ourselves in the innovative efforts of going paperless.
Our CRM and payroll functions are monitored using technological systems to maintain accuracy and efficiency.
Initial Training & Support
- A 10-day initial formal training programme
- Help with CQC registration
- 90-day business launch plan
- Marketing and business development training
- Software training
- Assistance with office set-up
- Support meetings
- A full administrative system
- Operations manual
- 250 business cards
The Package
- Use of the Walfinch brand
- Dedicated webpage on the main website
- Social media support
- 500 promotional leaflets
- Advertising materials
- Assistance building 100 key contacts
- Lists of and introductions to referral providers
- 250 Business Cards
- 500 Flyers
- Territory Map
- Roller Banner
- Window Vinyl
Exclusive Territory Licence
- Your territory will cover a minimum of 250,000 people, including
- 40,000 people aged 65+
Advanced Back-End Systems to Facilitate…
- Business development
- Financial management
- Compliance and procurement
- Recruitment and training
- Rostering
Ongoing Training and Support
- 45 hours of ongoing training and support annually
- Recruitment workshops to help you recruit and retain the very best caregivers
- Business development workshops to help you grow your business
- Compliance coaching to ensure you meet – and exceed – the highest regulatory standards
- Business coaching
- Periodic CQC-style inspections led by the franchisor, to prepare you for the all-important official CQC inspections or Care inspectorate in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Click below to request more information about this amazing opportunity!
News
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Walfinch Home Care Offers Free Information to Help Tackle Soaring Bills
Care provider urges: “Don’t turn off the heating until you have read this!” A list of sources of help is available on the Walfinch site and on leaflets that Walfinch carers are handing to clients. Homecare provider Walfinch is coming
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Carers walk 100,000 steps for Age UK Oxfordshire
Carers and support staff from Walfinch Oxfordshire have collectively walked 100,000 steps, in less than one week, raising funds for Age UK Oxfordshire. The walk has raised £200 and a further £300 was donated by Walfinch to bring the total
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Walfinch Appoints Homecare Industry Expert Julie Farrow as Senior Business Development Manager
Walfinch, the national homecare provider, has appointed Julie Farrow as senior business development manager, to support its national network of franchisees as the group continues to pursue its ambitious growth plans. Julie joins the business with 25 years care experience
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Walfinch Franchisee Sally-Ann Celebrates Carer’s Good Turn that gave Dorothy, 80, her Appetite Back
When Dorothy Bowen, 80, was reluctant to eat, her carer Rosina Davies stepped in with a treat that got Dorothy’s appetite back. In return, Rosina received a treat herself. “Dorothy was hesitant about eating and she was losing weight,” says
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Warsop under-7s football squad celebrates new kit, thanks to Walfinch
A newly-launched under-7s football team in Warsop is celebrating after receiving sponsorship from homecare business, Walfinch Mansfield, for team kit, boot bags and equipment. The team, which meets at the John Fretwell Sporting Complex in Sookholme, was set-up in the
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Double celebration as Walfinch nominated for two Thames Valley Business and Community awards
Walfinch, the national homecare provider, has been successfully nominated in this year’s Thames Valley Business and Community Awards. The business is a contender in two categories: the Business of the Year Award, while Walfinch’s founder and CEO, Amrit Dhaliwal, has
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Walfinch Franchisee Sarah Wickham, Nominated for National Care Award
Sarah Wickham, the registered manager of Saxmundham-based homecare company Walfinch Suffolk Coastal, has been announced as a finalist in The Women Achieving Greatness in Social Care Awards; a national awards programme designed to celebrate female contribution to the social care
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Walfinch Bucks Welcomes New Carers with Expansion of Private Client Services
Local home care service Walfinch has recruited new carers to help power the expansion of its private client services – and it’s looking for more. “Our new carers show just how wide an appeal a care career can have,” says
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Walfinch Care to Enhance Support for Franchisees with New Senior Appointment
Walfinch, the growing home care franchise, is to enhance the support it provides for its franchised network with the new appointment of Richard Stanfield as franchise consultant. Richard Stanfield joins Walfinch from one of the UK’s largest domiciliary care providers
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Homecare Provider Launches Career Pathway Programme for New Carers
In a bid to boost recruitment of new carers into the industry, homecare specialist, Walfinch, has launched a new professional career pathway programme for frontline carers. With adult social care across the country facing a recruitment challenge, having been added
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Suffolk Businessman Nominated for Next Generation Award at bfa HSBC British Franchise Awards 2022
Suffolk business owner Cameron Campbell has been shortlisted for the Next Generation Franchisee award of the bfa HSBC British Franchise Awards. Cameron became a Walfinch franchisee at the age of 23. Having left school at 16, Cameron initially worked in
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Walfinch shortlisted for LaingBuisson Awards 2022 ‘Homecare’ category
Homecare franchise network Walfinch has been named as a finalist in the ‘Homecare’ category at the prestigious LaingBuisson Awards 2022, which celebrates excellence across the healthcare sector. The LaingBuisson Awards honours businesses that have set new quality standards in social
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Case Studies
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Gardening with a boxer: How Cameron the Walfinch franchisee is upending the stereotypes of the care sector
How one man went from a semi-professional boxer to a full-time care provider as a franchisee. Picture a professional care provider and it’s unlikely to be a 23-year-old man working with a semi-pro boxer, but the story of how Cameron
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Walfinch franchisee Leena knows that small things can transform lives
“One very independent client said she didn’t want carers. Now she sees her carers like daughters and wants them to be in her 100th birthday pictures,” says Leena Bector, Managing Director of the Walfinch care service in Windsor and Maidenhead.
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Walfinch Franchisee Delivers Satisfaction with Hot Dinners
Walfinch Franchisee Delivers Satisfaction with Hot Dinners “Sparking eyes, a big smile and a hot dinner may be small things but among care clients, they mean a lot,” says Shilpi Verma. Shilpi, who owns the Walfinch business in Harrow, says:
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Walfinch Franchisee Ian Thompson Warns Against Assuming that Post-Covid Memory Problems are the Onset of Dementia
Walfinch Franchisee Ian Thompson Warns Against Assuming that Post-Covid Memory Problems are the Onset of Dementia Carefully tailored care from a Walfinch home care franchisee and his team has helped a former surgeon recover from dementia-like symptoms brought on by
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Walfinch franchisees see the difference that they make to clients
“It’s never too late to improve a life,” says Walfinch franchisee Tiffany Meachim. “Our client Patrick, who is in his 50s, is prone to balance problems, and was only able to complete ten to 15 steps unaided when he became
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How Walfinch franchisee Kathleen solved a problem for Chrissie and Max and won a fashion show – and a new client
Chrissie Oaten had a problem. “I’d been caring for my husband Max, who’s got peripheral neuropathy, for five years. I’m happy to do it, but it means staying at home most of the time. “When my doctor said I needed
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Turning a passion for care into a rewarding business
I fell in love with homecare as a postgraduate student. Now as a Walfinch homecare franchisee I’m running a thriving business in a sector that I love. Bunmi Ganiyu came to the UK from Nigeria to study marketing at Edinburgh
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