{"id":1531,"date":"2018-07-11T17:20:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2018-10-01T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T16:22:17","slug":"driving-instructor-swaps-nottingham-roads-for-kitchen-with-launch-of-oven-valeting-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/driving-instructor-swaps-nottingham-roads-for-kitchen-with-launch-of-oven-valeting-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving instructor swaps Nottingham roads for kitchen with launch of oven valeting firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><h3>A former driving instructor has accelerated his self-employment ambitions after launching an oven valeting franchise in Nottingham.<\/h3>\n<p>Rob Sansom has started out in business as owner of Ovenu Nottingham North, following a varied career.<\/p>\n<p>Rob, 53, who is from the city, previously worked as a driving instructor and driver for the last 12 years, having spent six years in the Armed Forces as a vehicle mechanic and working for British Gas and Rolls Royce.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked for himself before, as a driver and driving instructor, Rob was interested in franchising and was going to take on another franchise, but came across Ovenu and decided to pursue the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI have enjoyed a varied career and have many years&#8217; experience being a self-employed business owner, which sets me up perfectly for this new challenge with Ovenu. I am from Nottingham so have a very good understanding of the local area and am excited to get started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hoping to establish the business over the coming months and am looking forward to meeting and building strong relationships with customers. Hopefully in the not too distant future I will be in a position to grow the business and take on a sub-contractor to support the day-to-day duties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ovenu Nottingham North serves homes and businesses throughout Hucknall, Arnold and surrounding villages.<\/p>\n<p>Rik Hellewell, Managing Director and Founder of Ovenu, said: \u201cRob has a lot of experience of running a small business, and has all the tools necessary to be a successful Ovenu franchisee. I would like to wish him all the very best in this new chapter of his career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ovenu is a franchise network made up of more than 100 businesses owned by men and women working throughout the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former driving instructor has accelerated his self-employment ambitions after launching an oven valeting franchise in Nottingham. Rob Sansom has started out in business as owner of Ovenu Nottingham North, following a varied career. Rob, 53, who is from the city, previously worked as a driving instructor and driver for the last 12 years, having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ovenu","category-cleaning-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/oven-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}