Turn your skills and compassion into meaningful local support. As a micro-provider, you can work flexibly, make a real difference in your community, and create a rewarding role that reflects your values whilst being paid.
The joy of being a micro business in care is building strong, trusting relationships with clients while choosing your hours, your services, and your clients — managing both the finances and the responsibility.
This scheme helps you set up your own enterprise and gives you access to a network of like-minded peers for support and advice.
A micro-provider is an independent care and support professional who runs their own small business. You base your service on your own skills and experience, whether from previous employment or lived experience, with kindness and understanding as the most important qualities. You manage your own finances and responsibilities while building trusted relationships with the people you support. Micro-providers work flexibly and independently, without being part of a larger organisation, providing personalised, local support that allows clients to direct their own care and make choices about the support they receive.
Micro-providers can offer a wide range of support tailored to clients’ needs. This could include complete domiciliary care, meal preparation, befriending, household tasks such as cleaning, DIY or gardening, transport to appointments, outings or social clubs, mobile hairdressing and therapies. You could also run creative activities at home—painting, crafting, knitting, or anything that promotes wellbeing. The goal is simple: help clients stay independent, combat loneliness, and enjoy a better quality of life at home for longer.
