You consider yourself quite the baker; cupcakes, chocolate cakes, cookies, and the rest, or maybe you are quite handy with a trowel, fork and pruner in the garden, or perhaps you are the party planning type. However, since becoming a mother, your skills have taken a back seat to the children and now that they’re in school, you feel it is time to get back on the job train, but you don’t want to do what you were doing before.

The solution is simple, those hidden skills and talents you’ve shelved away are an opportunity for a business waiting to happen. You could run your own business, work the hours that suit you and enjoy the work you do because you chose to do it. However, the idea of starting a business can be daunting to some, so instead of starting from scratch, franchising can give you the business framework and support you need to get yourself started.

Franchising is an agreement between a business (the franchisor) offering a service or product and yourself (the franchisee) to operate the same offerings under the business’ name. For example, Yogabellies offers yoga classes to mums and babies; you will pay annual registration and training costs and eventually run your own classes from which you keep 100% of the earnings.
At workingmums.co.uk, they have categorised franchises into businesses that you may be interested in, for example food and drink, education, travel and leisure, fashion and care to name a few.

The kind of franchise described above is what is known, as a single operator franchise, which requires more flexible hours to cater to the customer, is relatively low in start-up costs and can be done from home. Other types of franchises; retail (McDonalds, Subway) and management franchises (office based) have high start-up costs, require trained staff, committed working hours (9-5 or more) and good locations. Not entirely ideal if you are a working mother.

So if you are looking for something different, something that allows you to continue earning money and at the same time be a hands-on mum, then why not check out the Franchise Zone on workingmums.co.uk and see what franchise opportunities there are for you.