Walfinch, a network of leaders
Imagine being part of the home care revolution, not designed to ‘keep people at home’, but focused on streamlining clients’ daily lives and helping them to Thrive in (and beyond) their homes.
Let’s talk cash: the financial information
The minimum investment with a Walfinch franchise is £110,000 - 120,000, with a franchise fee £41,000 + VAT, along with an ongoing management support fee of 5%.
These figures underline that, while there is a serious investment, you’re backed by a proven model and recognised brand, with strong relationships with the banks. The opportunity is substantial, and the potential for return is transformative.
Walfinch was designed by a former home care franchisee
Walfinch is rooted in forward-thinking leadership, with our CEO, Amrit Dhaliwal having been a former home care franchisee. Our model combines entrepreneurial energy with care expertise, nationally supporting franchisees to set up their own Walfinch home care businesses. Could your individual expertise enrich our vibrant network of entrepreneurs? We want to hear your vision. When you join Walfinch, you’re signing up to a brand which values ambition, innovation, and seizing opportunities within a market that’s primed for growth.
Could Walfinch be the investment for you?
What kind of industry do you want to start a business in? Future-proof, deeply profitable, scalable, meaningful? You’re looking right at it. Walfinch is actively tapping into a broadening market, therefore, an undeniable demand.
Better yet: you’re not starting from scratch. You’re plugging into a brand with tested systems, operational tools, referral pathways and a growth-oriented mindset – a brand that is actively redefining what care means. This isn’t for people content with following, this is for leaders in the making.
As you build, your Walfinch business earns both social and commercial value. You’ll be creating jobs, contributing to communities and building something you can scale or sell. Walfinch franchisees are already seeing notable turnover and that momentum is infectious.
Are you what Walfinch is looking for?
We’re looking for driven, ambitious individuals who share our values of possibility, progress and perseverance. People who set new standards, people with passion, people with a hint of revolution in them. If you’ve ever looked at something and seen exactly what needs to change, you are suited to Walfinch.
We welcome franchisees from diverse backgrounds (we’ve had Marketing Executives, Accountants, Care Managers, Nurses, even Television Producers all become proud Walfinch business owners). Previous care experience is a bonus but not required.
All you need is the Thriving mindset:
- You believe great care comes from genuine human connection and operational excellence.
- You’re driven to build something in your local community; generating employment, creating value, making a difference.
- You embrace technology, systems and high standards, because you know that scalable success comes from disciplined frameworks.
- You’re willing to lead, to learn, and evolve.
- Previous experience of running a business or managing teams.
- You’re willing to get out there, shake hands, and become a person of influence within and beyond your local community.
As a Walfinch franchisee, you will…
- Be your own boss and have control of your life, with the backing of an award-winning brand.
- Work in a rewarding, high-impact sector: you’ll be helping people live better lives in their own homes.
- Support your local community by creating jobs, fostering partnerships, and building a reputation for excellence.
- Leverage a ready-built model: from referrals and service lines to admin systems and compliance frameworks.
- Potentially reach significant turnover, some franchisees are achieving up to £1 million turnover or more.
- Enjoy the support, network and ongoing development that comes with being part of a Thriving franchise system.
Training and support: marketing and regulation made manageable
Walfinch understands that care is a highly-regulated sector. So, we have designed our training and support to match. The start of your journey includes:
- A rigorous 10-day initial formal training programme covering business set-up, operations, compliance, marketing and more.
- Full assistance with registration (for example with the regulator Care Quality Commission in England) so you can get trading as quickly and smoothly as possible.
- A 90-day business launch plan that gives you clear milestones, actions and support.
- Office setup assistance, software training, marketing support and system implementation.
- Weekly and ongoing coaching meetings, business development workshops and compliance coaching.
- Access to a network of fellow franchisees, sharing best practice, referral networks and collaboration.
- Dedicated leadership team support, so you’re never left on your own.
How does the Walfinch franchise business model work?
The model is smart, clear and built to work in today’s digital age while staying human centred. At its core: you operate a home-care business under the Walfinch brand, delivering services in your exclusive territory. Our system ensures you have the technology, processes and branding to deliver standout service.
Key components:
- Exclusive territory license: You’re supported to establish a dominant local presence, with an expertly researched territory based on the population of potential clients.
- Technology-enabled operations: From rostering and care-monitoring to client management and compliance., the systems handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on growth and relationship-building.
- Marketing and referral strategy: You’ll be trained on how to build your network of referral providers, community relationships and local leads.
- Service diversity: You’ll offer a full range of care, from hourly/daily visits to live-in support, from simple companionship to complex care for conditions like dementia, stroke recovery, MS. That broad menu means you’re not locked into one niche, and you can scale your operations.
- Scale opportunity: While you might start as a single-unit franchisee, the model gives you potential to scale to multi-unit or multi-territory.
- Ongoing business development: Support doesn’t end at launch; you’ll be coached, updated, networked and encouraged to maximise the value of your business via best practices, operational innovation and strategic growth.
Stop surviving, start Thriving
By joining the Walfinch network you gain access to a proven platform: a recognised brand, a complete operating system, and a market position built for the future - with your own, exclusive territory. Why bother? Because setting up a home care business in such a regulated, evolving industry is tough. With Walfinch you get the backing, training and systems you need to succeed. Because it’s never enough just to survive. Through this high-potential business, make it your Time to Thrive.
What Would I Do Ad a Franchisee | Amrit Dhaliwal
Walfinch CEO gives his advice on buying a franchise
Hi!
My name is Amrit Dhaliwal. I'm the CEO and founder of Walfinch. And today I'm going to talk about how I would buy a franchise if I was buying a franchise. I've been a franchisee and now I'm a franchisor.
And so if I was buying a franchise in any space, I would do a couple of different things. I would make sure that I have either spoken to five different companies, at very least within that one sector that I'm looking at, whether that's home care, grass care, restaurants, anything.
I would look at their unit level economics, you know, really think about the numbers and think, well, is it a profitable business? Is a core business profitable? Are the franchisees profitable on hold? Not just revenue, but actual profitability. Is a franchise or interested in that profitability? I would look at the support level and the people that I'm being supported by within the franchise.
So not just who's leading it and CEO and the founders, because that is super important and thinking about their direction, but also about who they employ. What calibre of people do they have working with you? Because when that Tuesday afternoon problem kicks in, you're going to be picking up with that support team, not with that CEO in variable. So I think it's super important to think about, can I speak to the support team?
The other thing that I don't get asked enough, and I always push really heavily onto anyone looking at buying the franchise is speak to franchisees of your choice, not people that I've curated and said, you can only speak to these three, speak to anyone and really go far and wide. Spend your time, figure it out. Because as a franchisor you're always going to say the great things. But the franchisees that are receiving that support and working with that franchisor day in, day out are the ones that will always give you the real juice and tell you what's what. And that's the important part.
Now what I would always say to a franchisor is give me a mixed bag, give me a top performer, someone average and someone struggling. Don't tell me who they are, bung them up and give me, let me pick up the phone for them. Invariably you might find that the top performers are people that are really out there driving. And maybe the reverse is true for those are not performing. And sometimes it's a franchisor issue and support level issue and so on. But it allows you to ask the right questions, get a gut feeling on what's going on and get out there.
The other thing I would do is make sure that I have got a franchise lawyer, that you can go to the British Franchise Association's panel of law firms and speak to a franchising lawyer. Not an off the shelf kind of high street lawyer, specifically a franchising lawyer, ideally someone vetted by the BFA, the British Franchise Association. And I would really pick up with them and say, please look at these agreements and tell me what I'm signing and really what are the questions I need to ask.
And in fact, if you're going down that journey with a couple of franchisors and you've spoken to the franchisees, you've looked at their profitability, you've spoken to the support team, you've spoken to the CEO and founder, you've looked at their franchise agreement, you've got a BFA lawyer that has looked at the franchise agreement. You'll really get a sense of what it is.
The other thing I would really love to do if I was buying a business, especially from the industry that I've not been in, is going to sit in an office for a little while, or retail premises or whatever the business might be, get in there, get a vibe of it and see what it's like, maybe even mystery shop and say, hey, look, you know, I want to go and buy a burger and see what their service is like and really get a sense of the business from both sides of it, as a consumer, as a business owner and so on. I think take it slowly, think about the whole process, make sure you speak to a few people so you've got something to compare. I hope that's been useful and that's how I would do it as a former franchisee.
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