Franchises Attract Graduates To Business

The Guardian:

While most fellow graduates are fretting over job advertisements and application forms, and coming to terms with the brutal reality of months – if not years – of unemployment, Emma Luxton spends her days leaping around playing “musical bumps and statues” with toddlers in church halls and in front of nursery classes.

Just months after graduating with a degree in drama from the University of Exeter in June this year, the 22-year-old is running her own business, and clearly loving every minute of it. Luxton, who had a bit-part in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and has also worked with makeover guru Gok Wan, has taken up a franchise with Pyjama Drama, providing drama and play classes for two- to seven-year-olds. Carry on reading.

Photo: Jim Wileman for the Guardian.

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