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The UK Franchise Growth Index

Just Clear

Waste Management and Recycling · Waste · Domestic Waste

Just Clear is a UK clearance-services business offering a franchise opportunity in the collection and removal of unwanted items. The company identifies Brendan O'Shea as its founder and presents environmental responsibility as a central part of the brand. Its customer offer covers both households and commercial organisations.

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Overall Five Fibre score
70/100
Assessment
Independent
Last reviewed
Data confidence
High

The Five Fibre score measures this network against Twine Growth's Five Fibre Framework™ using the information available at the assessment date. It is not an endorsement, a financial recommendation or a recommendation to purchase a franchise.

About the network

More about Just Clear.

Services include house and office clearance, rubbish removal, commercial waste clearance, fly-tipping clearance and electronic-waste recycling. The business describes sorting suitable items for reuse or recycling, including donations to charities and auction sales of commercially valuable items on behalf of customers. Those practices express its service approach rather than a guarantee that every collected item can be reused.

The franchise opportunity involves an owner leading a local operation and developing demand within a franchise area. The recruitment page looks for management, leadership, financial, communication and organisational skills, together with the ability to promote the services locally. It also stresses the importance of an applicant's environmental and social outlook matching the business's approach.

Published support includes training, operational guidance, marketing assistance and continuing contact with the central team. The company also describes direct support from its founder and interaction with other franchise owners. The model combines a branded service and operating framework with the franchisee's responsibility for managing their team and building the business in their area.

Just Clear states that financial information is provided to suitable interested applicants during recruitment. Its website notes that the capital requirement depends on how the owner intends to scale the operation. The reviewed official material does not establish a single comprehensive current investment figure or a verified total of trading franchisees. Claims about resilience, growth and potential earnings should therefore be understood as promotional statements rather than assured commercial outcomes.

At a glance

Just Clear at a glance.

Industry
Waste Management and Recycling
Franchise category
Waste
Sub industry
Domestic Waste
Founded
2012
Franchising started
2021
Approximate franchisees
15
Headquarters
London
BFA member
Yes
UK origin
Yes
Recruitment status
Active

Investment

Franchise investment.

Investment from
£65,000 plus VAT
Management franchise
Yes
Mobile
Yes
Executive franchise
Yes

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Five Fibre assessment

How the foundations score.

Every franchise network is assessed across the five connected areas Twine Growth believes support sustainable franchise growth.

How the Five Fibre score is calculated

01 Assess Strong13/20

Assess: Just Clear demonstrates a working franchise format with named local operators and a specific management proposition. Its strongest foundations are role definition and differentiation through responsible clearance and recovery. Achieved representative retained profit and the precise thirty-day founder-independence test remain less visible. Published scale, positive customer feedback and a growing service range should therefore support context without automatically completing every commercial-readiness criterion.

  • Profitable core business: Partially, 2.5/5. Named UK operators and reported trading activity establish replication beyond the original van. Representative achieved net profit was not publicly verified, so scale and review ratings are not profitability evidence.
  • Operates for 30 days without daily founder input: Partially, 2.5/5. Operational teams, local owners and support specialists demonstrate delegated functions. The precise ability to operate successfully for thirty days without daily founder input was not independently established.
  • Ideal franchise owner defined: Yes, 3/3. The primary criteria specify leadership, commercial management, customer service and team-building capabilities. These identify the practical ownership role beyond a generic wish to own a clearance van.
  • Realistic owner money: Partially, 2/4. Investment ranges and cost categories are disclosed across sources, with fuller information promised privately. Achieved owner returns after crews, vehicles, disposal, marketing and central costs remain unverified.
  • Different opportunity: Yes, 3/3. Responsible reuse, recovery and professional property clearance underpin a defined offer. Multiple customer types and a scalable team model explain how the opportunity differs beyond a generic sustainability slogan.
02 Build Scale Ready18.5/20

Build: The public package includes specific transfer mechanisms, with stronger training detail than a general promise of help. Manuals, competence preparation and practical experience support repeatable operation. Credit reflects published provision rather than inspection of confidential resources or proof of universal adoption. The central-access criterion remains partial because the presence of CRM and other tools does not by itself show that every required resource sits in one maintained owner location.

  • Documented operating playbook: Yes, 5/5. The primary franchise package explicitly includes comprehensive business manuals. This directly supports an operational playbook, without asserting that its confidential contents or practical completeness were inspected.
  • Structured onboarding: Yes, 4/4. The BFA profile describes classroom learning, forty practical hours and a competence certificate. This is structured preparation linked to real work, rather than informal founder advice alone.
  • Documented brand experience: Yes, 4/4. Published manuals, trained crews and specified service controls connect the brand promise to delivery. The probate material also describes shared accountability and consistent preparation across the network.
  • One central resource location: Partially, 1.5/3. CRM and operational technology are explicitly provided. Public sources do not establish a single maintained location integrating all required instructions, templates and business resources for an incoming owner.
  • Launch without constant founder involvement: Yes, 4/4. Specialist-led preparation, experienced teams, peer learning and territory launch assistance provide a launch mechanism beyond constant founder questions. This credits published provision rather than guaranteed implementation quality.
03 Launch Strong16.5/20

Launch: The primary ownership invitation clearly distinguishes franchise investment from buying a clearance service. Applicant capabilities and a direct enquiry route are identifiable. The public information is less complete about mutual discovery and the coordinated campaign used to attract suitable people. Full financial disclosure is promised to interested applicants, which supports a staged conversation, but does not expose every assessment and acceptance decision.

  • Clear franchise proposition: Yes, 5/5. The primary page describes protected-area clearance ownership, responsibilities and support. A prospective applicant can identify the business format rather than confuse it with a request for a collection quote.
  • Targeted applicant attraction: Yes, 4/4. The opportunity targets commercially capable people able to manage teams and grow a practical service business. The intermediary reinforces the intended transition beyond permanently working on one van.
  • Ownership enquiry journey: Yes, 4/4. A primary ownership form and specialist intermediary contact route are identifiable. No enquiry was submitted, so private response times, qualification quality and eventual handover were not tested.
  • Pre-acceptance discovery: Partially, 2/4. The brand promises financial information to genuinely interested parties. A complete published mutual-discovery sequence, including territory validation and pre-acceptance decision criteria, was not verified.
  • Ownership go-to-market plan: Partially, 1.5/3. Brand pages, intermediaries and industry exposure create recruitment assets. A dated coordinated plan linking ownership channels, responsibilities, suitable-applicant objectives and delivery capacity was not publicly established.
04 Grow Weak Foundation7/20

Grow: There is visible development capacity and third-party support for ownership enquiries, but no published monthly recruitment funnel. Named expansion opportunities and an appointed-looking intermediary route provide stronger evidence than a founder-only contact page. They still do not establish recurring suitable demand, analysed source quality or conversion into signed owners. Those measures should be separated from household collections, national-account work and historic franchise appointments.

  • Monthly ownership enquiries: No public verification, 0/5. No dated monthly UK ownership-enquiry series was found. Historic owner appointments demonstrate outcomes in specific periods, not a verified consistently replenished suitable-applicant pipeline today.
  • Enquiry sources and best prospects: No public verification, 0/4. The inspected primary ownership form captures contact and postcode details. No source-to-qualified-prospect comparison was verified; customer CRM and general advertising assistance concern a separate acquisition process.
  • Ownership conversion: No public verification, 0/4. No current ownership enquiry-to-agreement conversion cohort was disclosed. Public coverage figures and announced appointments do not supply the reporting period, applicant denominator or lost-candidate outcomes.
  • Next territories: Yes, 3/3. Current opportunity listings identify available areas including Birmingham, Cornwall and Plymouth. This establishes geographically specific development opportunities beyond merely stating an ambition to cover the UK.
  • Consistent recruitment without founder-driven conversations: Yes, 4/4. PartnerWise presents a dedicated Just Clear ownership offer and enquiry route through its organisation. This supports recruitment handling beyond the founder, without claiming its private funnel performance was audited.
05 Amplify Strong14.5/20

Amplify: Customer acquisition is a tangible part of the ownership proposition, supported by national work, local visibility and central marketing assistance. The Aylesbury example connects a named owner to a customer-facing local page. Complete current owner coverage, individual continuing plans and joined commercial reporting remain partly evidenced. The practical opportunity is to understand which owner needs more demand, better conversion, additional crew capacity or stronger retained job contribution.

  • Local customer acquisition support: Yes, 5/5. The intermediary describes local digital acquisition support and national-account access. These are identifiable mechanisms for generating clearance customers, rather than only promoting the franchise investment opportunity.
  • Every owner represented online: Partially, 2/4. The Aylesbury page identifies its owner, contact details and services. A complete current roster was not reconciled against all local assets, leaving universal individual-owner coverage partly evidenced.
  • Continuing local marketing plan: Partially, 2/4. Continuing marketing and business-development support are described. Public evidence does not show a recurring territory-specific action plan with objectives, budget decisions and review dates for every owner.
  • Individual owner enquiry and performance tracking: Partially, 1.5/3. Job management, service tracking, CRM and KPI support provide measurement components. Joined owner-level enquiry, booking, retention and retained-contribution reporting was not publicly verified as a complete process.
  • Customers beyond personal networks: Yes, 4/4. Search pages, central enquiries, professional accounts and local promotional support create demand beyond owners’ personal contacts. Their commercial effectiveness still requires separate territory-level conversion and job-margin measurement.
70/100 Overall Five Fibre score

Five Fibre score: 70/100. Assess 13/20, Build 18.5/20, Launch 16.5/20, Grow 7/20, Amplify 14.5/20.

Assessment band: Growth Ready.

Just Clear is an identifiable active UK clearance franchise with documented support and named local operators. Its stronger score reflects visible operational transfer, a clear owner role and practical assistance in acquiring customers. The lower Grow evidence concerns the specific measurement of franchise recruitment. It does not mean the network has failed to expand. The important distinction is between evidence that new operators have joined and evidence of a repeatable, measured system that reliably attracts and converts the right people each month.

The history contains several dates that should not be collapsed. The primary About page traces Brendan O’Shea’s original clearance activity to 2007, while the BFA profile and corporate history describe the Just Clear business from 2012. Current opportunity listings identify franchising from 2021, and the BFA records membership from that year. These can represent different stages in the development of the operating business and franchise offer. The primary franchise page’s description of the business as ten years old is not a reliable way to calculate its age in November 2026.

Network size needs the same attention to definitions. Ashtons reported fifteen franchisees in September 2024, naming Chris Le Thorn in South East London and Euan Martyn in Scotland. The current primary opportunity page advertises forty-six locations and eighty available areas. Those are not necessarily independent owner counts or a reconciled current active estate. A single owner can cover several customer-facing locations. International licence references also do not become UK franchisees. The assessment credits demonstrated replication without converting every coverage page or advertised territory into an existing owner.

The local evidence is commercially useful. The Aylesbury primary page identifies David Mitchell as franchise owner and gives local contact and service information. Earlier August 2024 reporting describes his move from a corporate career and the initial development of his clearance business. That supports the claim that the operating model has been transferred beyond the founder. It does not establish representative net earnings, the average ramp-up time or the result achieved by all owners. A favourable case can demonstrate possibility while still requiring a broader financial sample for investment decisions.

Published investment measures differ. The BFA profile gives a £30,000 to £60,000 start-up range, while a current opportunity listing gives a £30,000 plus VAT franchise fee and a £65,000 to £78,000 minimum investment range, with total investment on request. The primary page identifies separate categories including the fee, vehicles, equipment, business setup and working capital, and promises fuller disclosure to suitable applicants. These figures should be reconciled by package, date and funding basis. They should not be averaged or treated as interchangeable evidence of an all-in cash requirement.

Assess therefore recognises a coherent proposition while retaining partial financial scores. Clearance income must support crew labour, travel, vehicle costs, waste treatment, insurance, customer acquisition and central charges before an owner retains a return. Resale or recovery income can diversify the model, but requires careful treatment of ownership and entitlement. The March 2026 probate feature reports value recovered for estates during 2025. That amount benefits the estates and must not be presented as franchisee turnover, franchisor revenue or owner profit. Similar care applies to broad claims of economic resilience: a service can address persistent demand without being immune to changing costs or customer circumstances.

Build is supported by more concrete evidence. The primary package expressly includes manuals. The BFA describes four days of classroom preparation, practical work alongside experienced teams and a competence certificate. Its ongoing training description includes commercial and operational development. These are clear transfer mechanisms. A separate current directory sets out a slightly different ten-day allocation across training and territory support, so the applicable present timetable should be confirmed rather than combining every published day into a larger invented course. Full scores concern the existence of structured preparation, not an inspection of private training records.

Central access is less certain than the individual components. Public materials describe CRM, job technology and support, but do not establish that every instruction, template and update is available through one maintained owner resource centre. That distinction matters when an operator encounters an unusual clearance, a disposal question or a customer complaint. The most valuable system should help the owner find the correct current process and escalate exceptions, rather than depend on remembering which person previously supplied an answer. Publication of confidential manuals is unnecessary to explain that access and maintenance responsibility.

Launch benefits from a primary invitation, specific capabilities and an identifiable ownership route. PartnerWise’s current opportunity page reinforces a growth-minded owner profile and provides an additional specialist contact channel. This also supports delegated recruitment beyond the founder’s personal conversations. However, neither a listing nor a contact form verifies response quality, and no enquiry was submitted. Fuller public discovery information could explain how territories, expectations, financial assumptions and operating responsibilities are tested before acceptance. It would help filter applicants seeking a passive investment from those prepared to build and manage a service operation.

Grow has geography and handling capability, but limited public performance measures. Named available areas are stronger evidence than a general nationwide ambition. They still need to be prioritised against local demand, access to crews, vehicle economics and support capacity. No verified monthly ownership-enquiry series, source-quality comparison or enquiry-to-agreement conversion cohort was found. The founder’s strong public presence is not proof that all recruitment depends on him, particularly where a specialist intermediary is visibly involved. Equally, the existence of that intermediary cannot establish private conversion performance or a predictable flow of qualified applicants.

Amplify connects the national offer to local customer demand through digital support, account opportunities and owner pages. The key commercial question is what happens after an enquiry reaches a territory. A low booking rate may reflect slow response, unsuitable job types or quotation quality. Strong bookings with weak retained contribution may instead reflect travel, crew utilisation, disposal costs or underpricing. More advertising would not solve every one of those problems. A continuing local plan should use joined enquiry and performance information to identify the actual constraint and choose an appropriate intervention.

Customer reviews support service continuity, but do not establish owner earnings or satisfaction. The national probate asset-recovery figure concerns value returned to estates, not brand turnover or franchisee profit. Neither that result nor employee reviews should replace achieved owner evidence.

  • Grow: Join monthly ownership enquiries, sources, qualification and agreement outcomes in a consistent pipeline. Prioritise named available areas using local demand, operating economics and support capacity.
  • Assess: Reconcile current investment measures and validate achieved owner returns, keeping estate recovery value, customer spend and retained franchise profit separate.
  • Amplify: Connect each owner’s acquisition activity to enquiries, booked jobs, crew capacity and retained contribution, then maintain a local plan addressing the actual constraint.
  • Launch: Publish the full mutual discovery and acceptance journey, with current financial disclosure, territorial assumptions and clear handling responsibilities across the brand and intermediary.
  • Build: Confirm the applicable training timetable and consolidate current manuals, templates and systems access, with clear ownership of updates and checks on practical adoption.

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Overall, against the whole Index
This network70
UK Index average64

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