Women's unemployment is at an all time high but Tatty Bumpkin franchisees are maintaining their work-life ambitions whilst achieving financial success.

In year 2 of her franchise, Catherine works 11 hours per week and earns up to £2,000 per month

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Tatty Bumpkin offers a unique, dual-income, ethical franchise with an award winning yoga-inspired programme for babies and children, and a range of organic clothing and fair trade products.

About Tatty Bumpkin

Launched in 2004, Tatty Bumpkin is THE natural lifestyle brand for children from age 0 to 7. Focusing on a more creative and imaginative world for children and parents, we have a worldwide following and won Best National Physical Activity for Children (Organix and What's on for Little Ones Awards) in 2008.

Our yoga-inspired movement programme is CACHE accredited (Council for Awards in Childcare, Health and Education) and fully aligned with the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. Each class is fully supported by a wide range of teaching materials, weekly lesson plans, accompanying music CDs etc.

Tatty Bumpkin has a licensing deal with TUI travel and Canvas Holidays to deliver our award-winning classes in their overseas Holiday Clubs. One of our franchisees discovered Tatty Bumpkin while on holiday in Egypt, so you never know where the Tatty Bumpkin bug will bite!
We have also worked in partnership with some great ethical and environmentally-aware companies ncluding: Innocent Smoothies, Ecover, The Co-operative Bank and First Choice Holidays as well as HSBC Bank, Asda Sporting Chance and many, many others.

Tatty Bumpkin was also featured on Dragons Den last year and Peter Jones enjoyed taking part in a Tatty Bumpkin Discovery Day.

Listed as one of the top 100 ethical companies in the UK (New Consumer
Magazine) we are committed to ethical working practices. All our teaching
materials are made by a fair trade Co-operative in Sri Lanka. We have an accompanying range of Organic and Bamboo clothing for children aged
0-7 years.

In 2010 we produced The First Carbon Neutral Clothing range for babies and children on our whole clothing manufacturing, transport and distribution process and is now audited independently to assess environmental impact. We then 'offset' the Carbon Emissions by supporting a chosen environmental project through Piqqo.com. We make clothes that kids love to move in, our clothes are

‘Clothes to feel good in, clothes to feel good about’....

The Franchise

We launched our franchise in March 2008. Since then, we have exceeded all our targets and have a wonderfully diverse club of franchisees from all different walks of life and experiences.

The Franchise Programme gives franchisees the opportunity to market the range of Tatty and Baby Bumpkin products and classes within an exclusive territory, giving the benefit of multiple income streams; classes for babies and toddlers as well as organic clothing - all with the support of a well respected and positioned brand.

A Tatty Bumpkin franchise allows you to run your own ethical business using a successful formula. The great thing about franchising is that you can build up your business to sell at a later date should you find a new direction, meaning all the time, energy and hard work put into creating your own Tatty Bumpkin business benefits you twofold - in the short term but also in the future. Most franchisees start off teaching classes as well as running the business side of things, but shortly after launching, you will work with your own network of teachers and experience a diverse and challenging working life.

You don’t need any prior experience to run a Tatty Bumpkin franchise - however we are looking for people who understand and believe in the product they are selling and who can communicate the Tatty Bumpkin story to new customers. You will need to commit a minimum of 20 hours a week to running the business.
Ideally you should have business drive and a sense of fun and it is possible to work with a partner

Availability

The United Kingdom is broken up into pre-determined number of territories, so once an area has been sold only the Tatty Bumpkin franchisee will be able to run classes within that territory. If you are lucky enough to live in an area as yet un-licensed, this could be a fantastic opportunity for you to have lots of fun running a successful business which fits around your family, as well as making a difference to the global environment and your own locality.

If you would like to find out more about our Franchise, please contact us so that we can send you more information. If you would then like to come along to one of our Discovery Day sessions to see a class in action by Samantha Petter the Owner and Founder herself and get an insight into the world of Tatty Bumpkin, our next sessions are:-

Benefits of the Tatty Bumpkin franchise

We’d love to hear from you, if you think that Tatty Bumpkin may be for you.

We are now members of th British Franchise Association Tatty Bumpkin are delighted that have been accepted as Associate Members of the British FranchiseAssociation (bfa). One of the bfa's main roles is to help potential franchisees recognise the good franchises and the not-so-good, as well as to help businesses involved in franchising to secure their own position amongst the "good". Franchisors and professional advisors to the industry wishing to be accredited must put themselves forward to the bfa to be tested against its strict and extensive criteria. Only if they successfully pass accreditation are they then able to join the bfa as a member, gain access to the benefits of membership and become represented by the Association.