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Welcome to our fourth edition of the #morethansport newsletter.
At the heart of any successful national franchise network is having clear and two way communication. It is vital that all the good stuff our franchisees are enjoying and the challenges faced are shared so that everyone benefits. This is why Premier has Franchisee Champions situated across the UK who facilitate regular regional network meetings. This format is great for sharing best practice, practical tips and for Premier to let the network know of future developments.
Ben Pattenden is our Franchisee Champion for the South East as well as a Premier Sport franchisee operating the Kent territory. Please take some time to see what he has to say.
Kind Regards,
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Phil Gaffer
Business Development Director
Premier Education Group
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Meet franchisee and Franchise Champion, Ben Pattenden
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Awarded for improving Franchisees support
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We’re pleased to announce that Premier Sport was last week presented with the ‘Continuous Improvement Award’ at this year’s 2014 Best Franchise Awards, held at the Hilton, Milton Keynes.
This is the 3rd year Premier has entered the awards and this particular accolade is given to those Franchisors which have improved their support and service to their Franchisees year on year.
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From Act Pro to ownership - the latest young entrepreneur to complete the ‘Premier Journey’...
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This week we are delighted to introduce another young entrepreneur who is starting out on his business career with Premier Sport. Marcus Lahiff now owns the Premier Sport franchise in East Ham, London. Marcus took some time out this week to share with us his experiences to date, from working in a franchise to owning his own franchise.
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Parents respond in large numbers to recent Chewits Sport Course Survey
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As you might have seen via our Facebook page, we sent a survey to our parent database earlier this month requesting feedback about our Chewits Sport Courses.
The results below are a credit to you and your inspiring team of Activity Professionals...
- 99% of parents ‘strongly agreed’ or ‘agreed’ they are happy with the variety of sports offered during the school holidays.
- 96% of parents ‘strongly agreed’ or ‘agreed’ that they find the Activity Professionals (coaches) to be friendly, helpful and knowledgeable.
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Proving our impact in schools - 96% of schools have rated overall effectiveness of the service provided as outstanding or good
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At the beginning of November we asked the 1000s of schools we deliver PE and Sport in to complete a short survey. We’ve been overwhelmed by the number of schools that have completed the survey and the results so far.
Schools have until Friday 19th December to compete the survey but here’s one stat we couldn’t wait to share with you -
96% of schools have rated overall effectiveness of the service provided as outstanding or good. |
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Controlling our finances is key to success, says CE David Batch...
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As Chief Executive of Premier Education Group, one of my key functions in the business is to control the finances, ensuring what every department and individual does is to budget, and that predicted income is being realised.
I always stress the importance of being in control of our finances to my department heads, whether that’s in the short term (weekly), medium term (monthly) and long term (annually).
Here’s a brief insight on how we do this; weekly, monthly and yearly at PEG head office...
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“Premier Performing Arts has directly increased our Premier Sport sales”
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We’ve recently featured a number of Performing Arts licensees in this Weekly News Update and we’re very pleased to hear that delivering dance is having a positive effect on Premier Sport business across our network. Not only have we heard that offering dance and sport has increased sales for licensees/franchisees but it’s also strengthening school relationships which is key to long term sustainability.
This week we spoke to Peter Bennett, Performing Arts licensee in Essex & Colchester. Take it away Peter...
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Suffolk children set for gold with nationwide fitness initiative
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170 children from Grundisburgh Primary School in Suffolk have taken their first golden steps within the safety of their own school grounds after launching a successful national physical activity initiative called The Golden Mile.
To promote the benefits of regular physical activity and in conjunction with Premier Sport, the school has set the children a challenge for every child to walk, jog or run the two laps daily to ensure every pupil completes 50 miles of physical activity over the school year. |
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Premier Business Awards - and the winners are...
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We are very close to announcing our first years annual Premier Business Awards. We will contact you directly in the next couple of weeks if you have won an award. Once all of the successful parties have been notified, we will share with the network.
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Award Categories
- Community Award – awarded to the Premier Sport franchise that has retained the highest percentage of customers throughout the school year on their Chewits Sports Courses.
- The Golden Mile Award – awarded to the Golden Mile licensee who has achieved the highest proportion of newly activated schools in the 2013/14 school year.
- Premier Performing Arts Award – awarded to the Premier Performing Arts Licensee who has achieved the most amount of new business in the 2013/14 school year.
- Activity Professional Excellence Award – awarded to two activity professionals from the Premier Education Group network through nominations and positive feedback.
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Catch up on previous #morethansport newsletters...
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Don’t worry if you’ve missed any newsletters, here are the links to the previous ones we’ve sent you –
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