Carole Rose - Cooking School Franchise

Experience

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  Financial Times

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1993

  Senior Colour Production Manager

  As Colour Production Manager, my role was to liaise with media and advertising agencies , repro & printers worldwide. I was responsible for the correct specification of the material to be delivered to the printers liaising with all nationalities. I won an award for a suggestion to simplify the difference in languages and set up throughout the repro and printers worldwide. I was responsible for the colour production team and every colour advertisement in the paper. Before becoming Colour Production Manager, I held other junior roles within this company and progressed quickly becoming the most junior manager on the team. Show less

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  Self Employed Childminder

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2003

  Childminder

  Whilst my children were young, I set up a business as a Childminder. It was in this role, that I realised I had a passion for cooking with children. The children would go home with stories of how much they had enjoyed cooking with me, with their parents encouragement the seed was sown for Cookies Cooking School.

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  Cookies Cooking School

  Sept 2003 - May 2016

  Business Owner

  It is all about having fun whilst learning ‘what we eat’ and how to make our food exciting at Cookies Cooking School. Our award winning cookery school offers 4 levels of cooking workshops for children of all ages so they can progress based on ability. In addition to the workshops, we offer cake decorating courses and fun children's parties.Cookies is also proud to offer Educational Cookery Workshops with local schools and pre-schools.The Cookies Cooking School Team have built great relationships working with some amazing charities including Essex Community Foundation, Mencap, Enable East and Family Mosaic, plus large organisations including Premier Foods. We have made cooking accessible to those with challenging abilities or circumstances with some amazing, life changing results. Show less

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  AlphaBake Cookery - Cooking School Franchises across the UK

  May 2016 - now

  Director

  We are excited to be rebranding and expanding our hugely successful Cookies Cooking School into AlphaBake Cookery and offering a franchising package to run a proven, successful business model. As an AlphaBake Franchisee, you get a ready-made brand for your business, a tried and tested cooking school structure and all the support you need to launch and grow. It’s the best of both worlds. You get to enjoy all the benefits of being your own boss, including choosing where and when you work, but you also get peace of mind from working with a proven business concept. It means you can skip past many of the hurdles usually associated with starting a new venture.Our carefully put together franchise package includes everything we think one needs to start a rewarding cooking school in a local area. We are committed to training, assisting and supporting our franchisees build a successful business. Show less