Recruiting And Consulting For The Cleaning Sector

About CleanBow

Cleanbow Recruitment & Consulting Evolved From The Depth Of The Cleaning Sector To Champion Cleaning Excellence

From Our Founder

After 16 years dedicated to providing professional cleaning srvices, we are not turning our experience into tools to help the cleaning sector drive excellence through recruiting of professional cleaning staff and helping cleaing businesses inthe secto imporve perfomrnce, transition into the digital world and increase sustainable growth.

We work with cleaning businesses and in-house cleaning and facilities managers nationally across automotive, commercial and industrial sectors. We also help schools with their term-time cleaner hiring, large events staffing needs, offices cleaners, medical cleaners, retail cleaners, and CSCS certified construction sites cleaners from our base in Loughborough, East Midlands.

Our Journey
2009
Green Heart Wash

Green Heart Wash Was formed - providing Eco-friendly Mobile Valeting Service in Peterborough

2010
Carpet and Domestic Cleaning

Bought a Rug Doctor carpet cleaning machine and started cleaning houses, employed first staff

2013
M&S Food Hall, Barratts London

We became a construction cleaning subcontractor on a number of  Marks and Spencer Food Hall constructions and Barratts London Luxury apartments

2017
CleanBow

As our team grew we discovered that the cleaning sector is plagued with an unusually high level of staff turnover, we set out to fix this by introducing our in-house training and recruitment for cleaners. It's success meant an increase of staff retention from 35% to over 85%.

2018
Industrial Cleaning

We took on our biggest Industrial and construction cleaning project at the old AstraZeneca site in Loughborough involving 50 professional cleaners

2019
The Cleaning Cabinet

We started a retail sustainable cleaning brand to help consumers learn simple ways to be environmentally conscious. This venture ended in 2023 but sowed a seed for the next stage of change.

2025
Recruitment and Consulting transformation

A significant loss of 90% business operation during Covid-19 led us on a quest to change our business model. After much consideration, we discovered that we have a solution that most cleaning organisations face- staff recruitment and retention. Our Cleaning recruitment and and consulting is born - we rebrand as CleanBow.

Get Started
Let us Help you Find Your next Cleaning Team Member
We know the drill, we have recruited and trained over 500 cleaners. Let us take the hassle of recruitment off you so you can focus on delivering a good clean.

FAQs

CleanBow is no longer just a cleaning service provider. We now offer specialist recruitment and consulting services tailored to the cleaning industry—helping cleaning businesses hire better, train smarter, and grow sustainably.

We support:

  • Cleaning business owners (all sizes)

  • Facility managers and subcontractors

  • HR and operations leads in larger organisations

  • Cleaners and supervisors seeking job placements

No, CleanBow now focuses entirely on recruitment and consulting for the cleaning sector. However, we use our 15+ years of experience in cleaning operations to help others succeed in the sector.

We provide:

  • Cleaner and supervisor recruitment

  • Vetting, onboarding, and referencing

  • Short- and long-term placement support

  • Culture-fit and skills-based matching

Yes! Our Cleaning Consultancy offers:

  • Bespoke onboarding services

  • Induction and refresher training, can be planned and delivered as required

  • Retention strategy planning

  • Staff performance improvement - tools and guidance

Our consulting support includes:

  • Business growth and scalability strategy

  • Operations and service delivery audits

  • Employee engagement and satisfaction reviews

  • Cost-saving and productivity improvement plans

Absolutely. Whether you manage your own staff or subcontract your cleaning, we can help optimise your hiring, training, and performance processes.