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Franchising - What does Little Fidgets Provide?

As a Little Fidgets franchisee you'll begin by attending a full training course lasting 3 days; we'll teach you how to deliver classes for an entire range of settings (day nurseries, church halls and primary schools), we'll guide you through the business requirements of running your franchise (book-keeping, marketing, advertising etc) and we'll cover business expansion, employment, insurance, media interviews etc.

The support doesn't stop there, however, because once you're back in your own territory we continue to provide on-going assistance with all aspects of running your business, from the recruitment of your first employee to the negotiation of your first round of advertising bookings. We also have an annual Little Fidgets conference, where franchisees can benefit from training updates, can make contact with other franchisees to share best-practice and generally enjoy being part of the wider Fidgets team.

As a Little Fidgets franchisee you (and/or your teachers) will work from a set of highly detailed lesson plans for all the age groups and settings in which you'll be running classes. These include special scripts to ensure that native speakers communicate effectively with their pupils of all ages and also to help British-born teachers sound like they're native speakers. All our lesson formats and activities have been very thoroughly tested over a period of several years by a wide range of teachers in different venues, so you can rest assured you are working with a highly effective and well-researched method of language teaching.

We also provide you with a full box of teaching resources worth over £600, containing percussion instruments, two dozen puppets and a wide range of props for all our popular role play activities (visiting a pretend supermarket, post office, delicatessen, doctors, garage, hardware store, cake shop etc); you'll also get a set of flash cards, handmade puppet bags and resource bags, a colour line, a number line and other laminated items. Our aim is that franchisees should be able to spend the majority of their time on running their businesses as successfully as possible in their local area rather than sitting at home at night slaving over a hot laminating machine or cutting out 200 elephant ears!

We provide franchisees with a highly detailed franchise operating manual, documenting all the business processes they need to know about, including sector-specific guidance on marketing, advertising, venue sourcing, negotiation etc. The manual will become your daily reference point when dealing with customers, renewals, finding venues etc. This manual is based on the extensive expertise we have built up in the languages market which means you can benefit from all that we have learned - we made mistakes so you don't have to!

All franchises have their own Little Fidgets webpage and email address and a clearly defined territory in which to operate. You'll also have the rights to use Little Fidgets logo and branding and we give you a full set of marketing materials to get you started in your new territory.

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