What Franchise - Issue 21.2

El Recreo Spanish LANGUAGE OPPORTUNITY On a mission to become the UK’s leading Spanish language and culture experience for children and families, this brand plans to grow to more than 20 franchise locations within three years, expanding its presence in schools, nurseries, and community hubs, and developing online resources for bilingual families worldwide. Petpals PET CARE This pet care franchise offers nearly 25 years of trusted services, including dog walking, pet sitting, and home boarding. With comprehensive training and ongoing support, the brand is seeking passionate, business-minded franchisees to join its steady UK expansion in delivering exceptional, welfare focused pet care. Franchise sectors to watch • Health, fitness and wellbeing: Ongoing consumer focus on preventative health is driving demand for fitness, recovery, and wellness concepts. Models with flexible formats, manageable footprints, and strong community engagement are proving particularly attractive to UK franchisees. • Home services and B2B franchises: Essential services such as property maintenance, commercial cleaning, logistics, and professional services offer resilient demand, repeat revenue, and lower operational complexity, appealing to both first-time and multi-unit operators. • Care services: An ageing population and increased demand for domiciliary care, specialist support, and wellbeing services are creating long-term, needs-led opportunities. Care franchises benefit from essential demand, recurring income, and strong local authority engagement. • Education and children’s services: Childcare, tutoring, skills-based learning, and enrichment programmes continue to performwell, driven by parental investment in education and flexible delivery models that adapt to local communities. • Food and QSR: Well-positioned food and quick-service brands are thriving by focusing on affordability, delivery integration, and clear brand differentiation. Concepts with streamlined menus, strong unit economics and scalable formats remain highly attractive to UK franchise investors, especially multi-unit and multi-brand operators. • Experience-led and community brands: Leisure, food, and activity-based franchises that prioritise connection, engagement, and repeat visits are building strong local followings and consistent performance across UK regions. This includes everything from choirs to art classes for seniors. Yolé FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE The frozen yoghurt franchise’s Yolé SKILLS app gamifies learning beyond the brand’s initial in-person induction, enabling users flexilibility in fitting updates and training around their schedules. Users access interactive learning and scenario-based training and can also monitor progress and claim incentives. NLP4Kids LOW OVERHEADS NLP4Kids is a low-overhead, high-impact franchise helping children and teens build mental health and emotional resilience. Franchisees receive expert NLP and hypnotherapy training, a proven child-safe model, and strong marketing and mentoring support. The brand aims to triple its UK network within 18 months, targeting areas of high demand. 53% OF PEOPLE SURVEYED BY THE BFA EXPECT BETTER GENERAL ECONOMIC CONDITIONS GOING FORWARD Franchising offers a tight- knit community that enables you to tap into invaluable support and knowledge 28 WHAT FRANCHISE Issue 21.2 What ’ s hot for 26 | PARTNER CONTENT