One week to go: CareYourWay prepares for the European Franchise Awards 2026.

A little over five years ago, the CareYourWay franchise didn’t exist.

Next week, CareYourWay will be at the Grand Final of the European Franchise Awards 2026, competing for one of European franchising’s major accolades.

That is quite a milestone for a franchise network launched only in 2021.

On Thursday 17th September, the CareYourWay team will join leading franchise brands from across Europe at the European Franchise Federation’s Grand Final, where CareYourWay is representing the UK as a finalist for Franchisor of the Year.

The occasion marks the latest chapter in what has been a remarkable few years for the growing home care franchise.

From Emerging Franchisor of the Year to the European stage

CareYourWay secured its place at the European final following its success at the BFA x HSBC British Franchise Awards 2025, where it was crowned Emerging Franchisor of the Year.

The national award recognised the development of CareYourWay’s franchise model, the growth of its network and the support being provided to franchise partners across the UK.

To now follow that achievement by reaching the European Franchise Awards represents another significant step forward.

It also comes at an exciting point in CareYourWay’s wider growth, with the franchise continuing to expand into new territories and bring its model of relationship-led home care to more communities across the country.

20 years of care behind five years of franchising

While CareYourWay’s franchise journey began in 2021, the story behind the brand stretches back much further.

CareYourWay was founded more than 20 years ago as a family-run home care service in South Devon, built around a simple belief that exceptional care should be personal, relationship-led and shaped around the individual.

Two decades of frontline home care experience subsequently became the foundation of the CareYourWay franchise model, giving new franchise partners the opportunity to build their own local home care businesses with an established care model, infrastructure and support network behind them.

Five years later, CareYourWay has grown from that original family-run service into a national franchise network of locally owned home care businesses.

And throughout that expansion, protecting the culture and standards behind the original CareYourWay service has remained central to the organisation’s approach.

Setting new standards across UK home care

Today, CareYourWay sits proudly as the UK’s No.1 Home Care Group on homecare.co.uk, reflecting feedback from clients and families receiving care across the network.

Combined with its recognition from the British Franchise Association and now the European Franchise Federation, the achievement reflects an ambition to build a franchise where commercial success and exceptional standards of care strengthen one another.

For CareYourWay, growth has never simply been about adding more locations to a map.

It is about developing strong local home care businesses, creating opportunities for exceptional people and ensuring that, as the franchise network grows across the UK, the quality and values behind the CareYourWay name grow with it.

Those principles can be summed up simply:

Exceptional care. Extraordinary people. Leadership that gives both the space to thrive.

One week to go

With just one week remaining until the European Franchise Awards Grand Final, excitement is building across the CareYourWay network.

Behind the finalist badge are five years of hard work, ambitious growth, difficult decisions, lessons learned and, most importantly, the contribution of franchise partners, care professionals and Head Office colleagues across the country.

Whatever the result on 17th September, reaching the European final represents an important moment for a home care franchise still only five years into its franchising journey.

From one family-run care service in South Devon to a growing UK franchise network, CareYourWay has come a considerable way.

Next week, that journey reaches the European stage.

And the CareYourWay team cannot wait to see what comes next.