The right support: nearly one in five Minster Cleaning Services franchisees generates sales of more than [pounds sterling]1 million a year. With such an intensive training programme on offer, you could be doing the same.(Focus)

INVESTMENT LEVEL: [pounds sterling]28,000

Starting out in business for yourself is a big step. The benefits of franchising compared with going it alone have been well documented arid, according to the NatWest/British Franchise Association Survey published earlier this year, franchising is still performing well contributing [pounds sterling]11.8 billion to the country's GDP in 2009 -an increase of [pounds sterling]400 million in 2008.

Minster Cleaning Services was established in 1982 and is a full member of the British Franchise Association (bfa). It began franchising in 1992 and is now the biggest and most successful commercial cleaning franchise in the UK with an …