The UK Franchise Growth Index

Orange Moon Training

Education and Tuition · Training · Professional Training

Orange Moon Training is a Nottingham based provider of professional training for early years, schools and residential childcare. Its company website dates the training operation to 2010, while Orange Moon Training Limited was incorporated in November 2015. Those dates describe different aspects of the organisation's history and should not be treated as an independently verified franchise launch.

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The service offer includes apprenticeships, professional qualifications and continuing development for practitioners and leaders. Published programme areas include early years practice, teaching assistants, school leadership and residential childcare management. Training is intended for both people entering these roles and existing staff developing their skills or taking on greater responsibility.

Delivery combines online learning with face to face provision in a number of UK regions. The website describes a team with backgrounds in teaching, school leadership, nursery management and residential childcare. It also identifies international activity involving teacher development and collaboration between education organisations, extending the service beyond domestic training delivery.

The related Orange Moon Education business describes partnerships with universities, schools and other education providers for teaching apprenticeship programmes. Orange Moon Training also identifies @Home Childcare as a sister business supporting childminders. Those relationships concern education delivery and childcare support; neither establishes by itself that the training company sells independently owned local franchises.

The public sources reviewed did not verify an Orange Moon Training franchise recruitment offer, territory agreement or franchisee package. Its published training programmes describe services for learners and employers, rather than an evidenced franchise onboarding system. The organisation can therefore be described as an established specialist training provider, while its franchise designation and current recruitment availability remain unconfirmed by the research.

At a glance

Orange Moon Training at a glance.

Industry: Education and Tuition
Franchise category: Training
Sub industry: Professional Training
Founded: 2010
Headquarters: Nottingham
BFA member: No
UK origin: Yes
Recruitment status: Inactive

Investment

Franchise investment.

Management franchise: Yes
Home based: Yes
Mobile: Yes
Executive franchise: Yes

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Five Fibre assessment

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01 Assess Weak Foundation5/20

Assess: An active specialist training business is verified. Independent franchise ownership, owner economics and an ownership proposition are not, so business credibility is not converted into franchise-readiness claims.

Profitable core business: Partially, 2.5/5. Companies House shows an active training company and Ofsted independently verifies established apprenticeship delivery. Profitability itself was not demonstrated, so the proven-and-profitable question receives partial credit.

Operates for 30 days without daily founder input: Partially, 2.5/5. The inspection report describes leaders, managers, tutors and defined staff roles, supporting some delegation. It does not demonstrate successful operation for 30 days without daily founder involvement.

Ideal franchise owner defined: No public verification, 0/3. Public material identifies suitable learners, employers and education partners. No independently verified profile for an Orange Moon Training franchise owner was found.

Realistic owner money: No public verification, 0/4. No current franchise agreement, commercial model, fee structure or actual franchisee returns was independently verified. Learner career progression is not evidence of franchisee earnings.

Different opportunity: No public verification, 0/3. Specialist training services are described, but no distinct franchise ownership opportunity was established. Provider positioning cannot alone answer the question about differentiation of a franchise opportunity.

02 Build Critical Gap0/20

Build: Education delivery systems are evidenced, but the specific franchise operating, owner-onboarding and resource-access questions cannot be verified for an independently owned network.

Documented operating playbook: No public verification, 0/5. Published training and safeguarding procedures relate to the provider’s service delivery. No operating playbook intended for independent Orange Moon Training franchisees was verified.

Structured onboarding: No public verification, 0/4. Apprentice training and staff development are documented, but no structured induction for new independently owned franchise businesses was identified.

Documented brand experience: No public verification, 0/4. The organisation has a public identity and education standards. No documented brand experience supplied to independently owned franchisees was independently verified.

One central resource location: No public verification, 0/3. Learner technology and training resources do not establish a central franchisee hub. No platform for verified independent Orange Moon Training owners was found.

Launch without constant founder involvement: No public verification, 0/4. Multi-region course delivery does not demonstrate that a new independent franchisee can launch without repeatedly asking the founder. No relevant owner launch example was verified.

03 Launch Critical Gap0/20

Launch: Learner and employer offers are visible. A current franchise ownership proposition, applicant journey and discovery process were not independently verified.

Clear franchise proposition: No public verification, 0/5. The retrieved and indexed material explains apprenticeships, professional qualifications and employer services. It does not establish an offer to buy an independent franchise.

Targeted applicant attraction: No public verification, 0/4. Learner, employer and staff recruitment messaging must not be counted as franchise-owner recruitment messaging. No independent current ownership campaign was verified.

Ownership enquiry journey: No public verification, 0/4. A general contact route and course enquiries exist. No specific franchise applicant journey, qualification stages or next-step information was identified.

Pre-acceptance discovery: No public verification, 0/4. No structured pre-acceptance franchise discovery process was independently verified. Meetings about courses or apprenticeship suitability serve different audiences.

Ownership go-to-market plan: No public verification, 0/3. International placements and expansion of educational delivery are not an ownership go-to-market plan. No current franchise launch campaign was verified.

04 Grow Critical Gap0/20

Grow: No verified franchise applicant pipeline or independently owned territory expansion process was found. Training enrolments and employer partnerships are different measures.

Monthly ownership enquiries: No public verification, 0/5. No verified franchise enquiries occurring consistently each month were located. Apprenticeship enquiries and training demand cannot be substituted.

Enquiry sources and best prospects: No public verification, 0/4. No franchise ownership source-attribution system or comparison of the best owner prospects was verified. Learner or employer channel tracking would answer a different question.

Ownership conversion: No public verification, 0/4. No enquiry-to-franchise-owner conversion rate was found. Apprenticeship completion and learner outcomes are not ownership conversion measures.

Next territories: No public verification, 0/3. Orange Moon Education describes delivery regions, not allocated independent franchise territories. No verified plan for next franchise-owner locations was established.

Consistent recruitment without founder-driven conversations: No public verification, 0/4. A provider team exists, but no verified continuing franchise recruitment function was found. Employment, education partnerships and learner intake do not establish this capability.

05 Amplify Critical Gap0/20

Amplify: The business markets its own training services, but no verified local franchise owners were identified to whom customer acquisition support and performance systems could be attributed.

Local customer acquisition support: No public verification, 0/5. Support provided to apprentices, employers or related childminders is not evidence of customer lead-generation assistance for Orange Moon Training franchisees. No such owner network was verified.

Every owner represented online: No public verification, 0/4. Corporate and programme web pages establish provider visibility, not a local online presence for each independently owned franchise business. No owner list was independently verified.

Continuing local marketing plan: No public verification, 0/4. No continuing local customer marketing plan for verified independent franchisees was identified. Corporate training promotion alone does not answer this question.

Individual owner enquiry and performance tracking: No public verification, 0/3. Ofsted describes learner monitoring and quality assurance. These are not individual-franchisee customer enquiry and business-performance reporting, which were not verified.

Customers beyond personal networks: No public verification, 0/4. The provider has public routes to acquire learners and employers. Without a verified franchise network, those routes cannot establish franchisees’ ability to generate customers independently.

5/100 Overall Five Fibre score

Five Fibre score: 5/100. Assess 5/20, Build 0/20, Launch 0/20, Grow 0/20, Amplify 0/20.

Orange Moon Training is verified as an active specialist training provider. Its designation as an independently owned franchise network remains unverified. This is the central finding and must be resolved before the assessment is interpreted as a conventional comparison with trading franchise systems. The low score records the absence of verifiable evidence for the specific ownership questions, not a judgement that the training provider delivers poor education or should cease trading.

Companies House identifies Orange Moon Training Limited, company 09864506, as active and incorporated on 10 November 2015. Current indexed provider material and the related Orange Moon Education site date the training activity to 2010. Those dates describe different aspects of the organisation’s history and do not establish a franchise launch. The named directors are Barrington Oliver-Mighten and Yvette Queenie Oliver-Mighten. Director registration does not identify a franchise director or prove that a franchise programme exists.

Ofsted provides independent evidence of substantial service delivery. Its April to May 2025 inspection describes an independent learning provider with 337 apprentices at that time and an overall Good judgement, with Outstanding personal development. These are dated educational findings. They are not a current learner census, financial audit, franchisee count or endorsement of an ownership investment. The earlier Requires Improvement inspection should not be presented as the latest overall outcome.

Related organisations create a risk of mistaken relationships. Orange Moon Education describes specialist programmes and partnerships with schools and universities across several regions. @Home Childcare describes Orange Moon Training as its sister training company. Childminder business support and educational consortia do not by themselves establish that Orange Moon Training sells local franchise businesses. Regional delivery, apprentices, learners, tutors and partner institutions must not be counted as franchise owners or territories.

The workbook’s existing franchise description already identifies this uncertainty and recruitment status is Inactive. The older public Twine Growth page, however, labels recruitment Active and displays high franchise scores using generic descriptions. That page is not independent evidence for its own claims and has not been used to justify the new assessment. It indicates a discrepancy between the current workbook review and the live public profile, which remains outside this spreadsheet-only task. No live site change or protected status change has been made.

Assess priority: establish the underlying ownership facts before attempting to improve a score. Seek a dated official franchise proposition, agreement basis, owner role, commercial model and identifiable independent franchisees. If the business does not operate a franchise model, the appropriate Index question is eligibility and classification, rather than how to recruit owners. A company can be a credible, successful training provider without being a franchise opportunity.

Build priority: keep educational delivery systems separate from franchise infrastructure. Ofsted describes quality assurance, staff roles and structured teaching, which are meaningful evidence about the provider. A franchise operating manual must additionally explain how an independent owner runs a business, uses the brand, accesses support and meets commercial obligations. There is no basis to infer such a manual or an owner hub simply because professional training resources exist.

Launch priority: identify whether an ownership offer is actually being taken to market. General enquiry forms, apprenticeship applications, tutor vacancies and employer partnerships address other audiences. A current franchise proposition would need to explain who can join, what they own, the investment, rights and responsibilities, and the selection route. Until verified, the related score questions remain unsupported rather than being filled with assumptions from unrelated education services.

Grow priority: do not apply learner or employer measures to owner recruitment. Course intake, completion, provider expansion and international placements measure educational activity. They do not establish monthly franchise enquiries, ownership source quality, applicant conversion or allocated territory growth. No evidence has been found to support those questions independently of the Index’s own old profile.

Amplify priority: verify the existence of the owners who would receive local customer support. The provider’s corporate marketing and its support for related education professionals cannot be presented as a local acquisition system for Orange Moon Training franchisees. If a franchise network is subsequently confirmed, its own local web presence, marketing plans and performance measures should be assessed using direct evidence tied to that network.

Some direct website requests timed out during this review, so indexed first-party text was considered alongside accessible related-company pages, Companies House and the Ofsted report. That access limitation alone is not the reason for the finding. Repeated independent searches did not establish an ownership offer beyond Twine Growth’s existing assertions. The assessment is deliberately explicit about unknowns so the provider’s genuine operating history is preserved without carrying forward unsupported franchise claims.

Benchmark

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This network5

UK Index average64

Overall, against Education and Tuition (37 networks)

This network5

Industry average62

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