{"id":18609,"date":"2023-05-18T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=18609"},"modified":"2023-05-18T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:34:20","slug":"blossom-cornwall-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/blossom-cornwall-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossom Cornwall Case Study"},"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><p>Grace Angilley just knew, from the moment she read about Blossom Home Care, that it was the franchise for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve worked in social care for years and seen some dreadful things,\u201d she says, \u201cbut Blossom leapt out at me because it offers the standard of care I\u2019d want if I needed it myself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like me, Blossom believes in caring for its carers, paying them decently, and giving them the chance to care for clients properly in their own homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From her first conversation with Blossom founders John and Fiona Leggott, Grace felt at home and knew she\u2019d be joining a company that shared her values and genuinely wanted to make a difference to people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlossom is vastly superior to so many home-care companies out there,\u201d says Grace. \u201cInsisting that home visits are at least 50 minutes long makes a world of difference to clients and to the carers themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives them a chance to build friendships and spend time having coffee together or playing Scrabble once the basic needs are taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn and Fiona gave me straight answers to every question I had, and they\u2019ve kept all their promises, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace has taken on the whole county of Cornwall as her territory, helping John and Fiona further realise their dream of turning Blossom into a truly national network.<\/p>\n<p>Their reach now extends from the North of England right down to the toe of Cornwall, to the Midlands in one direction and to Canterbury in the other.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-award-winning network offers a true alternative to residential care, enabling its clients to retain their independence and remain in their own homes.<\/p>\n<p>Grace intends to create at least 150 jobs in her first three years, beginning with a base in Truro then opening other offices as her business grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Angilley just knew, from the moment she read about Blossom Home Care, that it was the franchise for her. \u201cI\u2019ve worked in social care for years and seen some dreadful things,\u201d she says, \u201cbut Blossom leapt out at me because it offers the standard of care I\u2019d want if I needed it myself. \u201cJust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1477,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-blossom-home-care","category-care-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Picture2-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18609","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}