Help 🌈 TotsCrops Kids Hairdressing Post Covid

Our project's goal is to raise £10,000 for our established 🌈 Children's Hairdressing Service based in nursery, child-friendly locations and mobile 🏡 Due to the debt accrued from our three-year nursery location closure due to COVID, we are unable to obtain money through traditional channels. Losing our revenue over night and struggling to keep the business solvent was incredibly challenging during 2020-23. We survived by warm calling our database and offering and Children’s Mobile hairdressing service, using the TotsCrops method for cutting children’s hair.

Over the last 17 years we have taught thousands of Children how to enjoy having their haircut.

The relaunch of the nursery service in January 2023 post-Covid has been exciting and challenging! Families lifestyles and habits have changed, so we have had to change our business model. Children are not in day care full time any more because parents are now more able to work from home. This has meant our customer demographic has changed and our prices too. Converting into a franchise means the stylists can work locally to their area and charge accordingly. They can visit nurseries, children friendly locations and offer a mobile service.

Our Story

I created TotsCrops from scratch in 2006 when I walked into my daughters nursery and thought crumbs all the kids need a haircut. I have been the driving force of the business for so many years and to see it evolve has been incredible.  I am not going to lose my business because of Covid, It has too much heart and integrity for that to happen. Please help us continue our good work and save this wholesome business. 

Thank you so much for helping us get to the next chapter.                                  Debbie Imber and all the Team TotsCrops xxx 

www.totscrops.com 

We have converted TotsCrops into a low cost hybrid franchise. I have personally contributed £20,000 to make this happen, but we / I officially have no more funds. To finalise the new launch, we are asking for your support and kindness. The £10,000.00 is going to be used to complete the Franchise Operation Manual, build and launch the PR and Digital Marketing Campaign. Our rewards start at £13 and go up to £75. Or you can pledge without receiving a reward.

2 minute video explaining the Franchise opportunity 

The cash injection will enable us to continue transforming the way kids get their haircut, finalise the re structure of our business, enable hairdressers who are frustrated with salon life or parents wanting to return to the workforce with a career that allows them to pursue their passions, balance obligations to their families, and be their own boss!

MUST WATCH (1min) Meet Keelin TotsCrops Pilot Franchisee Children’s Hairdressing Expert !

We have lovely incentives that are unique to TotsCrops as rewards for your kindness. 

During Covid, I wrote a book about a young child who has their haircut in nursery by Debbie the hairdresser! I bought my daughter an i-pen and together we illustrated the book In 2021, it is published ready to read!

Embarking on mobile hairdressing service we had to use a lot of PPE and hand sanitiser. We partnered with a lovely company La Sent whom made us a bespoke hand sanitiser which we still use today. The fragrance is lovely and the hairdressers generally use it as a perfume as well as a hand sanitiser!

La Sent were also able to make a head lice repellent product. If you spray TotsCrops The Defence head lice product on your child every day, they will not get head lice! This is a prevention, not a cure. 

💛 A spray a day keep the head lice away 💛

The hand sanitiser and the head lice Spray are made out of essential oils and have no nasties in them. So safe for everybody over the age of 3 years.

 Especially for this crowdfunding La Sent have made us a candle 🕯️ as a reward, the perfect Christmas present. 

We are offering our uniform as a reward for the kids! They can role play as the hairdresser! A lovely kids T-shirt with the TotsCrops logo rainbow on it.

Tickets to a ‘We did it party!’ In January 2024 entrance & free drink On arrival. Depending on how many rewards we sell, will depend on the location for this event. Courtesy of Beach Blanket Babylon in Nottinghill we have been offered ‘The ballroom!’ Dress to impress 🪩🥂🕺🏼💃🏻 DJ to be confirmed. I promise you it will be absolutely amazing. One definitely not to be missed. Early bird tickets start from £25-£75. We are aiming for January 31st, so anyone with a birthday in January let’s collectively come together. If you are buying tickets for your birthday please be sure to email in and let us know. We will accommodate you with a private table and extra bi

If you are choosing to support us out of the goodness of your heart, your name will be added to our finally post and documented as a supporter who got us to the next chapter of TotsCrops. 

If we run over our target the funds will be used to give our new franchisees a deposit to secure their lending.

Here are a few things you might not know about TotsCrops:

We actually teach your child how to have their haircut, giving them a life skill. Seeing them convert from a nervous child into a confident child is so rewarding.

Way back in 2010. I designed the children’s hairdressing chair and we have it manufactured in the Uk 🇬🇧 The chair has a high chair safety certificate on it so you know that your child is completely safe and equally important, your child feels safe. We are now on our third generation chair. 

The cutting gown that we use is tailored to the child. The characters featured on it are called The Septuplets! They’re all named after different haircuts, and are sporting the style of that haircut. We use these to engage the child whilst they are having their haircut, I drew these characters back in 2011, and my daughter gave them all personalities.

The booking system we use I created with a company called Shore. A German-based company, I was blessed to work with an incredible guy called Sven Strehlke. Sven believed in TotsCrops, and he got it over the board at the head office to help us break down their code and build our booking system, which is unique. I am forever, grateful to Shore and Sven. So sadly, Sven passed away in 2020, and I never ever got the opportunity to meet him, shake his hand and thank him. I am still in contact with Tony Makau who is now at Sales force. An other amazing guy and if it wasn’t for Tony, we would not of got this project over the line, he was so patient and understanding of everything that I wanted to be changed. We will remain great friends forever!

I have spent the last 17 years putting together a training course to teach the stylist how to cut children’s hair. It’s very different to cutting adults hair, but once you know how it’s so easy.

I have lived and breathed TotsCrops for all these years. I know the franchise a strong business model and the way forward.

I profiled the Franchisee on me, when I was 30 and Ellie 18 months old, I became single mum not out of choice. The same week the barbers I was working at in the city let me go,  because I could only work two days a week. I was completely heartbroken. I kept my daughter in nursery  for some form of structure, but knew I had to get a job. The amazing manager Alex at Ellies nursery, Leapfrog in Liverpool Street in April 2006 gave me an opportunity to cut the kids hair. That was the day TotsCrops started. I was so grateful to be able to continue hairdressing and be a mum.

A TotsCrops Franchisee is a hairdresser that loves their job, but finds it challenging working in the salon. When you become a parent your lifestyle changes, your wants and needs change. So working in the salon is very hard. As a Franchisee, the hairdresser will be able to have a fun job. Be part of a team and a job that fits in around family commitments. The stylist will have the contacts of the children in their area. Once they’ve completed their training course, they will be the children’s hairdressing expert in their area and their business will fly.

When the summer holidays, Easter holidays, Christmas holidays arrive our Franchisees are not going to be suffering from anxiety and thinking ‘how the hell am I gonna go to work and look after the kids, with child care costing a fortune.‘They’ll manage their TotsCrops booking system to fit in around them, their family and their client database. 

Fact people are most loyal to the hairdresser and the dentist!

The TotsCrops Franchise is a business in a box. 

If you are reading this and think you know of a stylist that would love to be part of our team PLEASE get in touch on email 📧 [email protected] 

I’ve research the PR Agency and the Digital Agency that we are going to use to maximise the marketing campaign. Everybody who is a hairdresser aged 24-40 will have the advert land on their Mobile phone, via TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. They will be able to click through and see if they fit our criteria. If they do they can be the TotsCrops franchisee in their area. Everybody is on their phones 24/7 this is how we will find our Franchisee. The PR company will create the perfect exposure for parents to know we offer the bespoke children’s Hairdressing service in their area. 

We have franchises ready to start in Kent, Bournemouth and London. These are already producing revenue ready to be converted to the new franchise business model.

Please find it in your heart to help us get over this line. We will party like rock stars at and all have something in common. We came together to change the way children get their haircut, we are helping stylists do the job that they love and we saved the business TotsCrops ltd that so nearly went under post Covid .

Thank you so much for your time generosity and kindness.

 Debbie Imber xxx

FAQs.

Is postage included?
Yes postage is included on all products delivered within the Uk. There is a separate reward for £5 for delivery 🚚 outside Uk 

When will my product arrive?
T Shirts, Hand sanitizer’s, Candles and The Defence Spray will be delivered in 20th December, in time for Christmas.

Can I bring extra guests to the party
No, only the ticket’s purchased as rewards will gain access to the event.

Do I need to buy drinks at the party?                                  
Yes, there will be a bar at the event selling drinks everyone will receive a drink on arrival.

Can I pledge on multiple rewards?
Yes, but you will need to make each pledge separately. It takes a little longer, but it's worth it, and we really appreciate it!

A massive thank you to everyone xxx