Extra Help
Extra Help is one of the UK's premier home help and domestic service providers, offering assistance to the elderly, mothers and everyone in between.
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About Us
Are you a kind and caring person who would love to run a business helping others?
Extra Help is a home-help and domestic services franchise company that operates in a rapidly-growing, recession-resilient market.
A prime opportunity
Recent studies show that Britain’s general population is ageing. The number of older people is rapidly increasing, with many of them choosing, or being forced to stay in their own homes and live independently. Along with the closure of many care homes across the country and the fact that local authorities are mostly unwilling to provide non-personal care, a huge opportunity exists to offer the assistance elderly people need to make their lives easier and allow them to maintain their dignity and independence.
What’s more, we don’t just help the elderly! Extra Help provides flexible home-help and domestic services to literally anyone who needs them, from new and hard-working parents to time-poor professionals.
Due to the nature of the services we provide, Extra Help has been allowed to remain open during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, providing much-needed, COVID-compliant assistance and companionship to clients across the country.
Straightforward business model
Our tried-and-tested business model is straightforward and easy to follow. Clients are charged a flat fee per hour and home-helpers are self-employed, thereby organising their own tax and National Insurance. Your job as a franchise owner is simply to find clients and recruit responsible, caring and honest home helpers to meet their requirements.
Modest, monthly service fees
Extra Help’s service fees are modest and designed to provide you with every chance of success. Your first 3 months of trading are completely free, with service fees of £200 + VAT only payable from month 4. After your first year, fees increase to £250 + VAT per month, or 10%, whichever is greater, with discounts applicable when you achieve your targets.
You can realistically recoup your original investment within the first year, meaning that, upon completion of your first year in business, you could be well on your way to generating serious profits!
Our franchisees’ figures speak for themselves. Several franchisees are bringing in an astounding £5,500 per month, and others are bringing in up to £4,000 per month, proving that Extra Help is a viable and lucrative business opportunity.
Ethical, honest trading
Extra Help is an open, trustworthy company that abides by trading law. We have undergone the appropriate training and background checks to enable us to receive the following accreditations:
- Approved Franchise Association (AFA) Member
- NatWest Bank and RBS Approved
Our franchise package
Franchisees receive a unique, postcode area, covering 100,000 homes; a detailed Operations Manual, comprehensive induction and refresher training sessions; ongoing support from Head Office; a complete, branded stationery pack; telephone number with answer phone service, email address and optimised web page; professionally-designed leaflets and much more!
News
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5-Star Franchisee Satisfaction Award for Extra Help
At Extra Help, we understand that happy franchisees work harder, contribute fresh ideas to the business and strive to exceed customer expectations. Ultimately, all of this works towards improving the overall efficiency of the network, and, therefore, their feedback is
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Mother-Daughter Team Launch Extra Help in Stratford & Warwick
This week sees the official launch of Extra Help in another new area – Stratford & Warwick!It gives us great pleasure to welcome a lovely mother-daughter team, Karen Henry and Sam Abel, to the Extra Help family. Based in Evesham,
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Extra Help Wins National Chamber Business Award
Some of you may remember that, in October, we announced that our managing director, Claire Robinson, had won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Devon & Plymouth Chamber of Commerce Business Awards.As a winner of a regional award,
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Extra Help’s Home-Help Services Now Available in NW Leicestershire
It gives us great pleasure to introduce another new franchisee to our Extra Help family! Sam Bee is now the proud owner of Extra Help North West Leicestershire, launched in mid-October. Extra Help NW Leicestershire provides home-help and cleaning services
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Extra Help launches home-help and cleaning services in South Hams, West Devon & Bude
Here at Extra Help, we’re always excited to be able to announce the launch of a new franchise. However, this week, we’re particularly happy to introduce one of our newest franchisees, Sarah Canny, the owner of Extra Help South Hams,
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How a Single Mum from Bexley Discovered her Passion for Helping Others
We often hear stories of how some of our franchisees struggled to find their niche prior to joining Extra Help. Nicola Eden, the new owner of Extra Help Bexley, is an example of a franchisee who experienced a run of
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Extra Help Wins Top Franchise Diamond Award at Trustist Awards
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. As we’ve mentioned in previous blogs, our franchisees have worked tirelessly over
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Extra Help launches in Shropshire
As you know from our recent blogs, we’ve been focusing on our new franchisees, all of whom chose to join Extra Help within the past few months. These franchisees were specifically attracted to Extra Help because of the flexibility of
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A warm welcome to Extra Help Leeds East
As mentioned in our previous blog, Extra Help has experienced a recent surge in new franchisees during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This is largely due to the resilience of the franchise and flexibility of our services. The fact that we
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Extra Help Launches in Kettering
In this week’s blog, I’m delighted to welcome a new mother-and-daughter team, Deliwe Kamba and Tashinga Kunyarimwe, to the Extra Help family. Deliwe and Tashinga are running Extra Help Kettering together and launched their new home-help and domestic cleaning business
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Lockdown 3: Extra Help Still Providing Support
Again, we find ourselves in a national lockdown! Whilst this is probably one of the worst ways to start 2021, with the rollout of the vaccine, let’s hope that brighter days are on the horizon and we’ll, one day soon,
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Extra Help launches in Wolverhampton
In this week’s blog, I’m happy to officially welcome Mark Phillips, our new franchisee for Wolverhampton, to the Extra Help family. Mark lives in Sedgley, near Wolverhampton, and his new franchise covers Wolverhampton, Sedgley and Dudley. He lives with his
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Frequently asked questions
How much does a Extra Help franchise cost?
Extra Help lists a minimum investment of £12,950. Figures are supplied by the franchisor and are indicative — confirm current costs directly with Extra Help before committing.
Does Extra Help provide training?
Extra Help records training provided as: Yes. Ask the franchisor what the programme covers, how long it lasts and what ongoing support follows it.
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