Personal touch, professional standards
Earn £100,000+ a year without getting your hands dirty
Poppies' technology, systems and processes make this a business that’s simple to operate and control. The Poppies bespoke business management system minimises your admin and lets you focus on what’s important: stellar service and stellar growth.
By running a successful home based cleaning business you will be minimising overheads, and only move to an office when your cash flow allows – meaning no further investment is required.
Poppies is Britain’s oldest-established domestic cleaning franchise and has been setting the standards others follow since 1980. Our most successful franchisee, Chris Wootton, now owns and operates the franchise network as the Poppies MD. The result is a culture of rare and genuine passion to help people like you with the oomph and the ambition to build your own financial freedom and security, just as he did.
The Poppies Cleaning Service Franchise Opportunity
The primary role of the franchisee is to build and maintain great relationships with both clients and staff. The ability to get on with people and enjoy providing help to other people’s lives is one of the cores Poppies are looking for in their franchisees. The skills around cleaning they can teach; but the understanding of how to create happy clients is something that is invaluable.
As a Poppies Franchisee, you will employ cleaners your customers can rely on to be honest, efficient and discreet. Poppies will share with you their extensive inside knowledge about recruitment in the industry, which has been built up over many decades. From cleaners to managers and administrative staff, rest assured they will guide you through the very best practices to recruit and retain a dream team who will ensure your franchise flourishes.
Note: the above figures are based on 2019 financials for the top 20% of franchisees who have their own management team.
What you’ll need to be a Poppies franchisee
Buying a franchise is a low-risk way of sharing in the success of a high-profile business, backed all the way by the people who know it best and made it all possible.
We’ll let you into our trade secrets, support you with marketing and operations, and mentor you to become a confident Poppies franchisee.
You don’t need to have owned a business before.
1. A great communicator
2. Business-minded
3. Methodical and motivated
4. Proud and personable
5. Willing to reinvest to grow your business
A business journey, taken together
You can have your own Poppies domestic cleaning business either by setting one up in a new territory or by buying one that’s already established. Either way, Chris and his team will mentor and guide you on following the proven business model.
Poppies prides itself on the personal touch – something our customers have appreciated for decades. As a franchise owner, you’ll employ cleaners your customers can rely on to be honest, efficient and discreet. They won’t raise an eyebrow if the house they’ve cleaned is in uproar the next time they visit, and they’ll even park your liveried van around the corner if the customer wants to claim the credit for all their hard work! Like you, they’ll make it their business to keep clients happy.
What you’ll need to be a Poppies Franchisee
Buying a Poppies franchise is a low-risk way of sharing in the success of an established brand, backed all the way by the people who know it best and made it all possible.
Poppies will let you into their trade secrets, support you with marketing and operations, and mentor you to become a confident Poppies Franchisee.
You don’t need to have owned a business before, but you do need to be:
- A great communicator
- Driven and determined
- Methodical and motivated
- Proud and personable
… are a real people-person
… enjoy providing excellent customer service
… want to build and lead your own team
Find out more
If you’d like to know more about the Poppies franchise and…
… are a real people-person
… enjoy providing excellent customer service
… want to build something of your own, surrounded by experienced people
Please get in touch with us below:
The best ways to boost hygiene in the workplace over the winter season
And with evidence suggesting the Northern Hemisphere is on course for a surge of COVID-19 cases this winter1, any additional facilities or policies to protect yourself and your colleagues will be welcomed. Here, Chris Wootton, Managing Director of domestic cleaning company, Poppies, provides his top tips on how businesses can put measures in place now to protect against infection risks for the winter season ahead.
Have quick access to disinfectant and other cleaning products
The ‘seasonal sniffle’ is almost an inevitability, but with workplaces forced to think about more serious issues this winter, workforces must have access to sanitiser, disinfectant and other products that will help reduce the spread of infections. Even simple products such as facial tissues can help this effort massively. Placing a few boxes around the workplace for quick and easy access can help keep infections at bay and under control.
Regularly wipe down common touch points
Regularly disinfecting shared workspaces is vital when team members are most likely experiencing a seasonal cold. However, regardless of the time of year, a workplace cleaning routine should always have a strong focus on the most common touch points and areas with a lot of foot traffic. The most common areas include keyboards, phones, seats and door handles. Guidelines suggest that these spaces should be disinfected at least twice a day, but there’s never any harm in doing it more frequently.
Reduce clutter on your desk
One of the most important tips for boosting winter hygiene involves keeping your desk or personal workspace as clear as possible. While your personal hygiene is imperative, it is only half the battle, with cluttered desks generally carrying more germs and foreign bacteria. Put simply, more clutter means you will have more to keep clean. While desk mascots and memorabilia are a lovely sentiment, it may be best to pack them away over the colder months.
Keep workplaces well ventilated
We have all been well educated on how infections spread in unventilated environments over the last few years. Bringing fresh air into a room and removing older stale air, that can contain virus particles, reduces the chance of spreading respiratory infections2. While the winter months make us want to wrap up warm and close all the windows, it is vital that you sporadically open a window to help eradicate airborne viruses. As well as this, regularly opening a window is a great way to freshen up an office when the heaters will most likely be on.
Ensure hygiene is a joint effort
None of these measures mean anything without a shared commitment from a whole workforce. While remote work has increased dramatically, we still share a lot of time face to face with our colleagues. In fact, we still spend 25-30% of our whole time in the workplace3. This means that workplaces must be well maintained by every member of the team, no matter how much or how little time they spend in the office.
There are plenty of ways you can keep infection risk under control and maintain good workspace hygiene. We have all become acutely aware of the risk associated with spreading germs, so, if you do feel unwell this winter, the best measure you can put in place for yourself is ‘don’t be a hero’ – either work from home or take time to recover to protect those you work with.
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