The UK Franchise Growth Index
Choice Home Tutoring
Choice Home Tutoring is a UK tuition network providing personalised support to families, schools and organisations. Established in 2010, it offers both home visits and online learning, with individual and group tuition. The service is organised around the learner's needs, combining academic progress with attention to confidence and the relationship between student and tutor.
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About the network
More about Choice Home Tutoring.
Tutors cover English, mathematics, science and other secondary subjects, alongside preparation for the 11+, GCSEs and A levels. The published offer also includes homeschooling and support for learners with special educational needs or an education, health and care plan. Matching considers subject expertise, experience and personality so the student works with someone suited to their requirements.
The franchise model gives local owners responsibility for developing a tuition business within their territory. Applicants do not need a teaching background, but the company seeks organised, motivated and professional people who care about students. Its recruitment approach emphasises selecting partners who share the network's standards and commitment to personalised service.
The company's published organisational statement describes comprehensive franchisee training aligned with its operations manual and franchise agreement. The local business recruits and retains tutors while maintaining relationships with customers and partner organisations. The wider framework includes safer recruitment and safeguarding procedures, with identity, qualification and reference checks used when selecting tutors.
Choice Home Tutoring describes a collaborative franchise community supported by its central team. The operating approach brings together tutor coordination, administration, financial processes and customer communication, allowing tutors to concentrate on teaching. For the owner, the business depends on maintaining a dependable local tutor team, understanding learner needs and delivering a service that families and education partners can continue to trust.
At a glance
Choice Home Tutoring at a glance.
- Industry
- Education and Tuition
- Franchise category
- Tutoring
- Sub industry
- Exam Tuition
- Founded
- 2010
- Franchising started
- 2019
- Approximate franchisees
- 6
- Headquarters
- South Manchester
- BFA member
- Yes
- UK origin
- Yes
- Recruitment status
- Active
Investment
Franchise investment.
- Management franchise
- Yes
- Home based
- Yes
- Executive franchise
- Yes
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Five Fibre assessment
How the foundations score.
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Assess: The management role and applicant profile are clear. Public trading and satisfaction evidence does not establish typical owner net profitability or founder independence.
- Profitable core business: Partially, 2.5/5. The established tuition service, operating franchisees and reported teaching activity support a functioning model. Representative current owner net profitability is not independently verified.
- Operates for 30 days without daily founder input: Partially, 2.5/5. Local directors and recruited tutors operate territories within shared systems. A documented 30-day founder absence test was not found.
- Ideal franchise owner defined: Yes, 3/3. The current Work With Us page specifies motivated, organised, professional applicants who care about students; teaching experience is explicitly optional.
- Realistic owner money: Partially, 2/4. Recurring charges and territory-specific financial modelling are described. Conflicting joining fees and unavailable representative net results prevent a fully verified current owner-return model.
- Different opportunity: Yes, 3/3. A home-based tutor-management business combines student matching and support for families, schools and organisations, with optional personal tuition rather than requiring the owner to teach.
Build: Structured induction, operating documentation and safeguarding practices are visible. Complete manual inspection and consolidated resource coverage remain limited.
- Documented operating playbook: Partially, 2.5/5. The BFA describes a 300-plus-page manual and the official governance statement confirms training against it. The complete current manual and controlled revisions were not inspected.
- Structured onboarding: Yes, 4/4. The published 25-hour induction and official training page cover tutor recruitment, safeguarding, software, customer management, finance and local marketing, including observed practical activity.
- Documented brand experience: Yes, 4/4. Published recruitment, safeguarding, tutor conduct and customer-matching procedures define how the service is delivered, including post-first-session follow-up.
- One central resource location: Partially, 1.5/3. Policies are accessible through CRM profiles and business software is shared. One verified location for every manual, training and marketing resource was not established.
- Launch without constant founder involvement: Yes, 4/4. A personal franchise manager, expert support team and collaborative owner network provide identified support beyond delivery by one founder.
Launch: A complete public discovery route connects applicant fit, due diligence, commercial discussion and opening support.
- Clear franchise proposition: Yes, 5/5. The franchise site explains a home-based management role, service model, territory and support package. Fee inconsistencies are disclosed separately.
- Targeted applicant recruitment: Yes, 4/4. The opportunity page speaks directly to teachers considering a career change, while the current brand page welcomes other suitably organised and professional applicants.
- Ownership enquiry journey: Yes, 4/4. Direct information forms and a scheduled-call route lead to an initial director conversation and a Franchise Overview. Neither was submitted or booked.
- Pre-acceptance discovery: Yes, 4/4. Next Steps explains initial discussion, further meeting, confidentiality agreement, detailed business and earnings analysis, mutual agreement and signing before training.
- Go-to-market approach: Yes, 3/3. Training includes territory preparation and customer/tutor acquisition. Published launch support adds a local web presence, social campaign and printed materials.
Grow: Selective owner recruitment is clear, but consistent ownership enquiries, attribution and conversion remain publicly unverified.
- Monthly ownership enquiries: No public verification, 0/5. No monthly ownership enquiry series was found. The brand's account of enquiries from families concerns tuition customers.
- Enquiry sources and best prospects: No public verification, 0/4. Direct forms and directory exposure show channels, without verified ownership attribution and comparative applicant quality.
- Ownership enquiry conversion: No public verification, 0/4. No ownership enquiry-to-accepted-franchisee or enquiry-to-opening conversion was found. Indicative recruitment timescales do not establish conversion rates.
- Next territories identified: Partially, 1.5/3. Exclusive territory demographics and named existing owner areas are described. A current prioritised list of available development territories was not verified.
- Recruitment beyond the founder: Partially, 2/4. Forms and wider support capacity are visible, but the published recruitment journey specifically requires company directors and business owners. End-to-end delegated recruitment was not verified.
Amplify: Local digital representation, marketing training and recurring business planning are visible. Individual acquisition reporting is less fully demonstrated.
- Local customer acquisition help: Yes, 5/5. Local marketing instruction, launch assets and ongoing social, advertising and sponsorship guidance support territory customer acquisition.
- Every owner represented online: Yes, 4/4. The published package provides local mini websites and territory pages; the current customer site routes postcode enquiries to the local director.
- Continuing local growth plan: Yes, 4/4. The franchise support page specifies recurring planning meetings, territory support and quarterly training, establishing an ongoing local business-development cycle.
- Individual owner enquiries or performance tracked: Partially, 1.5/3. The tutoring CRM manages customers, tutors, timesheets and payments. Complete owner-level acquisition attribution and consistent commercial reporting were not verified.
- Customers beyond personal networks: Yes, 4/4. Public customer enquiry routes, local web pages, launch campaigns and work with schools and organisations provide routes beyond personal referrals.
Choice Home Tutoring scores 71/100, placing it in the Growth Ready band. The unrounded weighted total is 71. Strongest fibre: Launch, 20/20. Least publicly evidenced fibre: Grow, 3.5/20. Its published discovery, onboarding and local support arrangements are stronger than publicly measured ownership recruitment outcomes.
Priority 1, Grow: evidence monthly ownership enquiries, lead attribution and applicant quality, conversion through approval and opening, and current prioritised territory availability. Clarify recruitment responsibilities beyond directors.
Priority 2, Assess: reconcile joining fees and the complete funding requirement, then substantiate representative owner net returns and downside cash flow. Demonstrate founder absence resilience.
Priority 3, Build: verify current manual contents, revision controls and consolidated access to operating, training and marketing resources.
Research date: 4 November 2026. Reviewed the current main website and its Work With Us, customer journey and governance pages; the linked dedicated franchise website and investment, recurring-cost, earnings, training, support and discovery pages; BFA profile and survey news; industry and owner-story sources. No form, tuition enquiry or call booking was submitted. The supplied /franchise/ route returned 404; the current Work With Us page and linked recruitment site were added to sources.
Fee conflict: Your Investment states an initial £6,650 plus VAT franchise fee and the BFA repeats that figure. A separate live Franchise Opportunity page states £15,000 plus VAT as the joining fee. These cannot safely be treated as the same current package or silently reconciled as minimum versus total. Obtain a dated schedule. The recurring-cost page lists 8% of turnover management services, 1% national marketing levy and approximately £1,000 yearly for tutoring/CRM software. Confirm current amounts, VAT treatment and package inclusions. Earnings are modelled using students, charge rates and tutor pay, with detailed disclosure during due diligence; this does not provide a public representative owner net-income distribution.
Support discrepancy: BFA describes weekly one-to-one meetings, especially in the first year. The dedicated site describes at least four management meetings yearly after settling in, additional first-year support and quarterly training. These may refer to different stages or offers, but the current contractual cadence remains unresolved. The assessment awards recurring support rather than assuming every detail applies simultaneously.
Survey scope: BFA's 23 May 2025 member news reports 100% franchisee satisfaction and explicitly notes a small network of six franchisees. This is a reported survey result, not a current owner census, audited profitability measure or guarantee of future satisfaction. The current main site repeats the result without supplying a new date or sample. Reported tuition hours, tutor totals and students served are distinct from franchise-owner recruitment and income.
Governance date discrepancy: search snippets presented a September 2026 approval date, but the opened Modern Slavery Statement displayed approval on 6 September 2024 and a next review date of 3 September 2026. The opened text was used; a completed 2026 review was not assumed. It confirms policies available via CRM profiles and training against the manual, not that all resource categories are in one hub. Tutor vetting and DBS requirements concern delivery staffing and must not be substituted for franchise-owner selection stages.
Current national tutoring-policy funding and older programme references were not treated as guaranteed present revenue. No precise current owner or territory census was inferred from named examples. The existing Twine index was excluded as independent proof. Publishing Status and business metadata were preserved. No public verification means evidence was not found, not that a private capability is absent. This score concerns publicly evidenced readiness, not investment suitability or audited returns.
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Sources
Research sources.
19 public sources used for this profile
- https://www.whichfranchise.com/nonFeaturedFranchises/
- https://www.thebfa.org/franchisors/choice-home-tutoring/
- https://www.hometutoringfranchise.co.uk/leadership-team/
- https://www.choicehometutoring.co.uk/latest-news
- https://www.choicehometutoring.co.uk/about-us
- https://uk.linkedin.com/company/choice-home-tutoring-limited
- https://www.choicehometutoring.co.uk/work-with-us
- https://www.choicehometutoring.co.uk/find-a-tutor
- https://www.choicehometutoring.co.uk/modern-slavery-statement
- https://www.hometutoringfranchise.co.uk/your-investment/
- https://www.hometutoringfranchise.co.uk/franchise-opportunity/
- https://www.hometutoringfranchise.co.uk/ongoing-costs/
- https://www.hometutoringfranchise.co.uk/earning-potential/
- https://www.hometutoringfranchise.co.uk/training/
- https://www.hometutoringfranchise.co.uk/ongoing-support/
- https://www.hometutoringfranchise.co.uk/next-steps/
- https://www.hometutoringfranchise.co.uk/get-in-touch/
- https://www.thebfa.org/news/franchisee-satisfaction-survey-the-results-are-in/
- https://www.thosewhocan.org/my-story-my-franchise-choice-home-tutoring/
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