Thanks for the recommendation Vin
I've been running my franchise organisation since 2006, had a few hiccups along the way but nothing too serious. Major benefits are that you need no investment to get started, no tax/NI involvement, franchisees do all their own scheduling, invoicing, trouble shooting etc - all the sorts of things that take up so much time when you're employing. Only drawbacks are that you have less control, it's (slightly) easier for a franchisee to go rogue than an employee and returns are less per head than employing.
I haven't done any 'on the tools' work since 2009 and I've had a good (and steadily increasing) income throughout. Now approaching my 80th birthday, Lise and I are finally retiring on 31st August.
Altogether very, very glad I started my organisation 18 years ago at the age of 62
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I reckon I could have made a better job of manufacturing it in my shed.