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Paws for thought... Paws for thought visits Anrich Dog Grooming School in Wigan. In 2020 during lockdown, the operation decided to expand and has invested £70,000 in an extensive state-of the-art salon and training facility.
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nrich has been established for 35 years and its grooming training school offers courses based within the veterinary hospital environment. Alongside the school is a busy working salon with a team of five groomers offering quality grooms. The new facilities include a purposebuilt separate bathing and drying room alongside a styling and working area with six grooming tables. The academy accommodates up to eight students at a time giving them plenty of individual tuition. Managing director, James Weston, shares the operation’s journey: We constantly strive to develop our courses to ensure students leave us fully equipped and confident. We have formulated a course that covers every aspect of dog grooming so students feel ready to start their new careers as soon as they finish the course. We believe in hands on training as the best way to learn and our Elite model club has a huge variety of dogs of all breeds for students to work on and our groom standards are extremely high with attention to detail. You will leave us fully equipped to embark with confidence into one of the biggest growing industries in the UK. All our students go on to have successful and rewarding careers. This is all very different from how we started - with one tutor and a small class of four students. Alongside it we had a small working salon with one groomer. We progressed rapidly and soon needed to build a more spacious school to accommodate two tutors and an assistant and a class of eight students.
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