The UK Franchise Growth Index
CleanMyBed
CleanMyBed is a specialist mattress care brand developed through licensed operators and national market partners. Its published proposition serves both private homes and accommodation businesses, with CleanMyBed used for residential services and Peace of Sleep for hospitality. The founders identified on the official website are Charlie Wright and Gary Harrod.
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About the network
More about CleanMyBed.
The customer service uses a dry, chemical-free mattress treatment process delivered by trained local operators. The brand markets this around mattress hygiene and the removal of accumulated material, with equipment and service protocols managed centrally. Its hospitality offer adds documented service records and certification for properties such as hotels and short-term rentals.
The expansion model includes exclusive country licences and local operator opportunities. A national licensee receives rights to both customer-facing brands within the agreed market, while local delivery is organised through trained operators. These are different levels of responsibility, so the national development opportunity should not be described as identical to buying a single local cleaning franchise.
The published licence package includes equipment, onboarding, operator certification, service standards and marketing resources. Its Sentinel platform is described as supporting bookings, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, customer information and business reporting. Continuing head office assistance includes platform development, operational guidance, research and brand campaigns, with the licensee developing the local market within that framework.
The UK position remains a launch-stage proposition in the official material reviewed. The homepage labels the United Kingdom as launching soon, while the national licensing page marks the territory as under review. Neither statement confirms an established UK network of trading operators or an immediately available UK licence. The specific role, territory and commercial package therefore need confirmation through the company's market-development process.
At a glance
CleanMyBed at a glance.
- Industry
- Cleaning Services
- Franchise category
- Specialist Cleaning
- Sub industry
- Carpet Cleaning
- Founded
- 2020
- Franchising started
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Tachbrook Park
- BFA member
- No
- UK origin
- Yes
- Recruitment status
- Active
Investment
Franchise investment.
- Investment from
- £700,000
- Home based
- Yes
- Mobile
- Yes
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Five Fibre assessment
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Assess: The service and national-licensee profile are specific, but the current UK offer must be separated from historical local franchises and overseas operating evidence.
- Profitable core business: Partially, 2.5/5. Overseas service activity and historical UK operator launches support a functioning service concept. Representative current UK owner net profitability was not verified; an active company registration is not profit evidence.
- Operates for 30 days without daily founder input: Partially, 2.5/5. Local operators and automated workflows indicate delegated service delivery. No documented month-long founder absence test was located, and current licensing remains founder-facing.
- Ideal franchise owner defined: Yes, 3/3. The current national opportunity seeks a sufficiently capitalised business builder with sales, management and local-market knowledge. This is a different applicant from the historical local service ambassador.
- Realistic owner money: Partially, 2/4. The UK national prospectus displays a £1,090,000 headline licence fee and an indicative model using South African benchmarks. Unpopulated calculator outputs and incomplete ancillary terms prevent verification of a complete realistic UK owner net-income model.
- Different opportunity: Yes, 3/3. Specialist dry mattress care combines residential services with the Peace of Sleep hospitality assurance proposition. This is identifiable positioning, not verification of medical outcomes or a competition-free market.
Build: Published training and quality arrangements are detailed. Complete manual access and practical deployment for a current UK licensee remain less established.
- Documented operating playbook: Partially, 2.5/5. Current licensing material identifies operational playbooks and the certification page describes service checklists. The complete current operator and national-licensee manuals were not inspected.
- Structured onboarding: Yes, 4/4. The training page sets out four modules, online learning, practical assessment and normally two to three days of initial training, followed by refreshers and certification renewal. This documents the programme rather than proving every UK participant has completed it.
- Documented brand experience: Yes, 4/4. The certification framework specifies operator assessment, equipment records, service sign-off, customer countersignatures and renewal controls. These are published network standards, not independently audited UK compliance results.
- One central resource location: Partially, 1.5/3. Sentinel is presented as a common system for training, brand assets, customers and operations. An authenticated UK owner resource hub containing all current manuals and assets was not inspected.
- Launch without constant founder involvement: Partially, 2/4. Modular training and regional trainer roles support repeatability, but current onboarding is explicitly founder-led and a current UK launch completed by a delegated support team was not verified.
Launch: A structured national licensing proposition and enquiry route are visible. UK local operator availability and a fully evidenced recruitment-to-launch sequence remain unresolved.
- Clear franchise proposition: Yes, 5/5. The official opportunity distinguishes country licensing, local market participation and strategic partnerships. National rights include two brands. This is assessed as the currently published licensing model, without asserting a conventional UK unit franchise is available now.
- Targeted applicant attraction: Yes, 4/4. Country-specific prospectuses and separate entry routes address national investors and local operators. Historical directory recruitment also demonstrates use of an ownership audience; its old local offer is not treated as current.
- Clear ownership enquiry journey: Yes, 4/4. Country selection leads to a UK prospectus and enquiry route. The contact form includes a licensing category and business details. The visible route was inspected without submitting any information or testing follow-up.
- Pre-acceptance discovery: Partially, 2/4. Current material offers a platform walkthrough and describes due diligence before definitive terms. The 2023 Wilmslow story describes founder and existing-owner calls, but a complete current UK selection, discovery and approval sequence was not verified.
- Go-to-market plan: Partially, 1.5/3. Current material allocates local sales execution to the licensee and promises campaign resources. The historical 100-day Ignition offer is more specific, but its continuation under the current national model is unconfirmed. A dated UK recruitment launch plan was not located.
Grow: National availability is labelled, but current UK ownership recruitment performance and delegated recruitment capacity are not publicly demonstrated.
- Monthly ownership enquiries: No public verification, 0/5. No monthly UK ownership-enquiry volumes, qualified-applicant counts or sustained trend was located. Under-review status is not a monthly lead measure.
- Enquiry sources and best prospects: No public verification, 0/4. No ownership-recruitment channel quality or source-to-owner analysis was found. Sentinel customer marketing attribution is not evidence of licensee-recruitment attribution.
- Ownership conversion: No public verification, 0/4. No current UK enquiry-to-meeting, approval or signed-owner conversion rates were located. A historical individual recruitment journey does not establish network conversion performance.
- Next territories identified: Partially, 1.5/3. The official country list identifies available and under-review markets and marks the UK under review, while local UK participation is coming soon. A confirmed UK regional territory sequence or awarded master licence was not verified.
- Recruitment beyond founder: No public verification, 0/4. The current contact page assigns licensing and partnerships directly to co-founder Gary Harrod. The 2023 consultant-led introduction shows historical assistance but does not establish a current autonomous recruitment team or process.
Amplify: Local customer acquisition infrastructure is described, with historical UK launch support. Current UK owner coverage and recurring commercial execution need verification.
- Local customer acquisition help: Partially, 2.5/5. The current licensing offer includes campaign templates and global marketing support. The older directory describes a dedicated paid-advertising launch campaign, but present delivery to a current UK owner was not verified.
- Every owner represented online: Partially, 2/4. The national offer promises a localised website, and historical UK material describes personalised booking pages. The current country finder labels the UK launching soon, so complete live UK owner coverage cannot be confirmed.
- Continuing local growth plan: Partially, 2/4. Ongoing campaigns and licensee-led sales are described, but no current UK owner-level marketing calendar, recurring planning cadence or delivery record was located.
- Individual owner enquiry and performance tracking: Partially, 1.5/3. Sentinel describes operator-level earnings, country sales dashboards and attributed customer leads. These are specific advertised capabilities, but actual current UK owner enquiry and performance review use was not verified.
- Customers beyond personal contacts and referrals: Partially, 2/4. The model describes paid social, website enquiries and B2B hospitality sales, and older UK material includes search advertising. Current UK delivery and customer acquisition results through those channels were not established.
CleanMyBed scores 55/100, Growth Gaps, from an unrounded weighted total of 55.0. Fibre totals: Assess 13/20; Build 14/20; Launch 16.5/20; Grow 1.5/20; Amplify 10/20. Launch is strongest; Grow is weakest. This assesses the current public licensing proposition and evidenced service history, not an assertion that a new UK national licence has been awarded or that historical UK operators have stopped trading.
Priority 1, Grow: Establish the authoritative UK recruitment status, contracting entity and territory sequence, then maintain monthly ownership-enquiry counts, channel quality and stage conversion, with accountable recruitment delivery beyond the founders.
Priority 2, Amplify: Verify current UK owners and their working pages, then demonstrate a recurring local customer plan with enquiry, booking, repeat purchase and commercial performance reviewed for each operator. Separate supplied software capabilities from evidence of use.
Priority 3, Assess: Reconcile the national and local investment offers and provide current UK owner unit economics, complete costs, working capital, earnings assumptions and founder-independent operating evidence.
Research and discrepancies, 4 November 2026: cleanmybed.com/franchise/ redirects to national licensing. The licensing list marks the UK under review, while the market participation page and customer finder label it coming soon or launching soon. This is materially different from the older BusinessesForSale local ambassador listing, whose search extract quotes a £7,850 plus VAT franchise fee and £17,850 plus VAT total investment. The direct directory fetch failed, so those legacy figures are attributed to the indexed extract and are not presented as available current terms. The national page is a different investment scope. Its indicative overseas-benchmarked calculator is not independently verified UK net profit; underlying output values were blank in the readable page. The proposed national licensor is styled CleanMyBed UK HoldCo, whereas Companies House confirms CLEANMYBED LIMITED 13702682 is active. Their exact contracting relationship needs confirmation rather than assumption. The registry filing list shows 2025 accounts filed in April 2026, but the accounts document could not be retrieved and no profit figure is inferred.
The Point Franchise story is dated June 2023, updated July 2023. It evidences historical Wilmslow recruitment, training and existing-owner introductions, not current UK recruitment capacity. The old directory Ignition programme and launch advertising are not automatically carried forward into the current national licence. The current About page focuses on South African operations, while other country pages also label Denmark live; none establishes a completed new UK licence.
Important demonstration discrepancy: licensing and platform material describes House Harrod as a real production property, but the linked public verification page expressly labels it a demo property with fictional data, shows demonstration certificate references and uses an example contact address. It therefore demonstrates presentation of the certification journey, not a verified trading UK hotel, genuine customer contract or live owner commercial results. The linked service-certificate page exposed only download/print controls in the readable output, so its underlying record was not verified. Certification and training scores recognise documented standards and programme structure, not independent accreditation or proven health outcomes.
Primary sources reviewed include licensing, the UK prospectus, market participation, training, certification, Sentinel, About, contact, customer finder and the House Harrod verification page; Companies House supports company status and filing dates. Historical trade coverage and directory extracts supplement them. Customer sales pipelines are kept separate from ownership recruitment measurement. No enquiry form, financial gate or property application was submitted, and no authenticated owner dashboard was inspected. Missing public verification does not establish missing internal systems. Existing business description, publication status and unrelated workbook fields remain unchanged; the current UK offer and demo discrepancy warrant a separate factual-status review.
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Sources
Research sources.
21 public sources used for this profile
- https://www.whichfranchise.com/nonFeaturedFranchises/
- https://cleanmybed.com/opportunities/licensing/
- https://www.pointfranchise.co.uk/news-cleanmybed-signs-new-ambassador-for-wilmslow
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13702682/filing-history
- https://cleanmybed.com/
- https://cleanmybed.com/franchise/
- https://cleanmybed.com/opportunities/licensing/gb/
- https://cleanmybed.com/opportunities/markets/
- https://cleanmybed.com/company/platform/training/
- https://cleanmybed.com/company/platform/certification/
- https://cleanmybed.com/company/platform/sentinel/
- https://cleanmybed.com/company/about/
- https://cleanmybed.com/company/contact/
- https://cleanmybed.com/services/consumers/
- https://cleanmybed.com/services/find-cleanmybed/
- https://cleanmybed.com/za/
- https://peaceofsleep.vip/za/verify/pos-za-00001/
- https://za.app.cleanmybed.com/certificate.html?id=46e47135-d892-41e7-b5c5-5bd8f495ed07
- https://uk.businessesforsale.com/uk/franchises/opportunities/clean-my-bed-franchise-uk
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13702682
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13702682/officers
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