Blog - Archive for December 2011

Meet the lovely Suzanne Horton - Greater Manchester franchisee

Suzanne Horton with one of her Puddle Ducks

When Construction Lawyer Suzanne Horton started looking for a career change in order to spend more time with her family and have more flexibility and independence she came across the Puddle Ducks baby and toddler swimming franchise.  Suzanne had always been a keen swimmer and swim competitively during her school years.  She therefore immediately loved the Puddle Ducks concept and was impressed by the high quality of the lesson programmes, the teacher training programme and level of technical oversight.

Posted: Wednesday, 21st December 2011 by Tracy
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Congratulations to Jo Gribben - Teacher of the Term

Jo Gribben - Teacher of the Term

This term, we feel particularly honoured that the amazing  Damian Hughes, international speaker, best-selling author and sports psychology consultant, chose our Teacher of the Term.  Damian has worked with some of the UK's greats including Sir Richard Branson and Sir Roger Bannister.

After reading the nominations, Damian said: 

"These are really impressive. As a Dad of a 2 year-old-boy, I can really empathise and understand a lot of the emotions and feelings that are expressed by these parents and I find it so reassuring that your teachers are so lovely and caring.

Posted: Friday, 16th December 2011 by Tracy
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A HUGE welcome to our newest Franchise in Gloucestershire

Charlie and Jodie - our Gloucestershire franchisees

WELCOME to Charlie Goodenough and Jodie Coles who have just launched our latest franchise in Gloucestershire.  How exciting!

Charlie and Jodie were both Puddle Ducks teachers for Bristol and Bath.  Charlie said "Myself and Jodie had a conversation one afternoon whilst our boys played, and realised that we both wanted even more of a challenge and to further our career - and nothing but Puddle Ducks would do!" They decided there and then to set up on our own.

Jodie was an Airline Manager prior to having her son Archie in 2008.

Posted: Monday, 5th December 2011 by Tracy
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Puddle Ducks is Best Overall Franchise

Co-Founder, Jo Stone, receiving her Overall Best Franchise award

What a day Wednesday 30th November turned out to be!  Jo was asked to present a seminar on Puddle Ducks' story at the Smith & Henderson Best Franchise Conference ... where she found out Puddle Ducks were finalists in four awards, and came away with two of these including Best Overall Franchise.

Our story started back during the Summer holidays when we were invited by Smith & Henderson to benchmark our franchise operation and receive some valuable, anonymous feedback from our franchisees.

Posted: Friday, 2nd December 2011 by Tracy
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