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Foot Health and Comfort
The UK’s first in-school shoe fitting service
goes down a storm
T
here was a definite buzz around the Bollin health. In fact schools can even download free
School, Altrincham, as Twofeet, the Twofeet worksheets on feet and foot health from
UK’s first ever in-school professional shoe the Teachingzone website to use as part of their
fitting company launched its brand curriculum.
new service. The school’s love the service, as a donation
Designed to take the hassle out of buying shoes from each pair of shoes sold is given back to the
for busy parents there was understandably a good school in return for hosting the service. So by
uptake. As mums chatted, their children played buying from Twofeet parents are directly
with their friends, provoking comments like ‘ I’m supporting their child’s school.
surprised that it’s taken so long for someone ‘It has taken over a year of hard work to get to
to think of this!’ and ‘this is great I can now take this stage, so it is great to see it becoming a
the kids swimming on Saturday instead of reality. Our first franchisees are on board,
slogging round the shops and queuing for hours with backgrounds ranging from shoe shop
with tickets!’ management to school uniform sales and there is
The Twofeet team are all professionally trained no reason why this success can not be replicated
shoe fitters and it was obvious that parents were on a national scale. Territories are now being
impressed by the amount of information given to reserved so people interested in providing this
them about their children’s feet combined with service in their local area need to contact us
the excellent range of quality shoes available. immediately.’ Conor Quealy, Twofeet’s founder
Twofeet is all about protecting the health of commented.
children’s feet and raising the awareness of the
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Tel: 0161 929 1394
damage that ill-fitting shoes can do to long term Email: cquealy@twofeet.biz www.twofeet.biz
RIVA presents two
exceptional
ranges. Shoes that
fit every woman’s
wardrobe
FIREBACK the
modern lifestyle
brand that is
created to stand
out in the crowd.
For further details
telephone
01953 - 457 429
Tel: 01953 457 429
11 MAURICE GAYMER ROAD Fax: 01953 451 091
ATTLEBOROUGH, NORFOLK NR17 2QZ Email: sales@rivashoes.co.uk
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FOOTWEAR TODAY
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MAY 2009
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