Seniors Helping Seniors

Christian and his wife have been working full-time for the business ever since launch date. They are the only full-time employees but work with around 100 part-time care providers- on a typical month’s payroll the company will have around 40 working care providers. Due to most of the care providers being retired, they will work around 10-20 hours a week, but the shift patterns are very flexible.

Previously, Christian spent most of his career as a successful businessman in the media field. He ran a media monitoring company, and set up Tiscali in Norway (where he is originally from), amongst other business ventures.

Christian wanted to give back to the community. Seniors Helping Seniors is a franchise business and it was already a concept in the USA which has been around for almost 20 years. Christian did some research and noticed that there was a growing demand for this in the UK. It was about helping people first – then thinking about profit. Christian was keen to meet the founder and he flew to America to meet her and discuss the business in more detail. The founder of the company had previously worked with Mother Theresa on other social and charitable projects.

Four years in, the business is now a prime opportunity for people who want to do good and make money in a very important area.

Christian owns the UK rights to the Seniors Helping Seniors franchise company. He is cautious about who he lets start up their own care business as he wants their mindset to put the care of people as the number one priority before making profit from the business. Christian is actively looking for good-hearted entrepreneurs to become Seniors Helping Seniors business owners.

As a successful businessman Christian had been entrepreneurial on behalf of other people but Seniors Helping Seniors was the first time he took a risk with his own money, and this investment came from the heart. It was about doing the right thing for people. Such was the importance of the project and the conviction that he invested the proceeds from the sale of the family home into the venture. The risk was calculated by the amount of good it could do for people. Then Start Up Loans topped up the operations.