Scottish Franchise Week, a week of franchise events aimed at helping to raise the profile of franchising in Scotland, provided whichfranchise.com with the ideal platform for hosting a party to celebrate Scottish franchising.

Held in Glasgow's trendy Catch 22 bar, the whichfranchise.com party, supported by O2, brought together key players in the Scottish franchise community for a night of networking and fun!

As well as cocktail demonstrations, music and plenty of food and drink, a free prize draw for Elton John tickets and a charity prize draw also took place. The prizes, donated by O2 and whichfranchise.com, and presented by Bill Hendrie, Chairman of the bfa Franchise Group for Scotland, were won by the following:

• Adam Clark, Amold Clark, and Martin Ward, Signarama - iPod Shuffles
• Judy Seaman, Franchise Development Services, and John Coubrough, Mail Boxes Etc - Sony PSP
• Ken Wilson, Myhome - 02 Xda Orbit
• Carris Moir, Myhome - Elton John tickets
• Norman Dow, Business Gateway - Donny Osmond tickets
• Caroline Marshall, Business Gateway - Rod Stewart tickets
• Tony Marsh, Signs Express - Take That tickets
• Kevin Booth, French Duncan - champagne
• Robin Page, Cash Generator - champagne
• Alan Bow, Reface Scotland - whisky
• Dave Wilson, Snap on Tools - whisky

Nearly £1000 was raised for Aberlour Child Care Trust, a charity which works with children, young people and families in Scotland who need additional support, to promote their development and well being.

Johnny Sellyn, whichfranchise.com MD commented, "We are delighted with the success of our first franchise party. Feedback from guests has been extremely positive, so much so that we will be looking to make it an annual event.

As well as providing guests with a chance to network on a social level with their franchise colleagues in Scotland, we are happy with the contribution our party made in helping to raise the profile of franchising in Scotland."