Winners announced at the Disruptive Franchise Awards 2024

The winners have been announced for the Disruptive Franchise awards 2024.

The Disruptive Franchise Awards recognise UK based franchise businesses that have successfully transformed existing markets or created new ones through their disruptive strategies, products, services or approaches in their industries.

The awards were sponsored by Atlas Mapping, Big Red Box PR, Darwin Gray, Pebble, Your Team Video and Zest Virtual Support and judged by Dan Archer, Visiting Angels, Anne-Marie Martin, diddi dance, Lee Savage, Savage Martial Arts and Stacey Cann, Daisy First Aid.

The Awards, organised by Jo Middleton, founder of Franchise Business School, took place on Tuesday 18 June 2024 at the Village Hotel Watford in Borehamwood.

The theme of the event was ‘Inclusivity in Franchising’.

Speakers included Anne Marie Martin, owner of children’s dance franchise diddi dance, ‘The One Leg Dancer’ Jack Wells and neurodiversity in the workplace specialist, Maddy Alelxander-Grout.

The winners of the awards were:

• Inventive Franchise of the Year - Kidslingo - Sponsored by Club Hub UK
• Pioneering Franchise of the Year - Showtime Circus - Sponsored by Zest Virtual Support
• Revolutionary Franchise of the Year - Nature Makers - Sponsored by Pebble
• Social Impactive Franchise of the Year - Active Sports Group - Sponsored by Darwin Gray
• Lifestyle Franchise of the Year - Love Science - Sponsored by Atlas Mapping
• Best Only Presence Franchise of the Year - Football Fun Factory - Sponsored by Franchise Business School
• Disruptive Supplier of the Year - AdSmart from Sky - Sponsored by Making Digital Real
• Disruptive Franchisee of the Year - Helen Wilson, FunFest Cheshire - Sponsored by Big Red Box PR
• Disruptive Franchisor of the Year - James Cutting, Football Fun Factory - Sponsored by Your Video Team

Founder Jo Middleton commented on the day: “I feel truly humbled to have been able to host such a powerful and impactful event. The inclusive theme was exceptionally well received with the speakers delivering powerful and incredibly useful messaging, with easy to implement tweaks that we can make to our brands, to further foster inclusivity in its entirety. I am delighted to announce that the Disruptive Franchise Awards 2024 raised a fantastic £1,020.25 for our charity partners, the Limbless Association."