Last year, we changed the terminology of our delivery staff from Coach to Activity Professional and nearly one year on we again share with you the reasoning behind your change in title.

Here are just five reasons why you offer so much more than just a coach -

1. ROLE
2. LANDSCAPE
3. PROCESS
4. SERVICE
5. TRAINING 

Last week, Premier Education Group hosted this year’s National Training Event at the stunning Dunston Hall. We welcomed business owners from across the group, including Premier Sport and Premier Performing Arts to the two day event.

Visit the Premier Education Group’s facebook page to view a selection of the images from the two days.

We would like to thank you for your positive feedback following the launch of the new holiday programme and supporting materials.

Jan Miller franchisee in Swindon said:

“I just wanted to let you know that the new holiday leaflets look great and have had a massive impact on my numbers already. We began distributing the new leaflets on Tuesday this week and already we’ve had bookings from pupils at schools we have never dealt with before. Our numbers have already doubled from October Half term.

The Hare and the Tortoise

Our new mascots offer better possibilities of engaging with our customers. They resonate with customers, inspiring them to engage in conversation and share content. Also, it helps to personify the brand, increasing brand awareness and attractiveness of the brand.

For the Hare and the Tortoise, social media allows the mascots to develop their own identity, becoming the face of the new holiday programme. A successful example of a social media site is Aleksandr Orlov, the mascot from Comparethemarket.com.

Business partners, Chris Pipe and Jonathan Mills from the Romford, Dagenham, Barking and Ilford territory in Essex set to work towards the back end of the last academic year to indentify unnecessary ‘waste’ in their business to ensure a LEANer way of working. To achieve this goal, Chris indentified the promotion of extra curricular (EC) clubs as the most labour intensive aspect of his job. For example, leading up to a new term, Chris spent most of his week delivering leaflets to schools and collecting booking forms from secretaries (weekly) etc.

In September 2014, the National Dance Teachers Association and Dance UK sent correspondence urging as many people as possible to send individual responses to the Ofqual consultation reviewing GCSE and A/AS level dance.

ukactive has been informed of impending changes to the vision and objectives of the Primary PE and Sport Premium. The School Sport Premium is a government fund that provides money directly to primary school head teachers, designed to help primary schools improve the quality of the PE and sport activities they offer their pupils. These important changes to the premium have been agreed by Ministers but have yet to be officially announced.

Firstly, the overall vision for the Primary School PE and Sport premium has been updated. The vision will now become:

We have exclusive opportunities available for somebody that you might know wanting to run their very own Premier Sport business.

It might be a family member or a friend, whoever it is we’d love to hear from them and it’s so easy to get in touch!

All you need to do is send them the link below for them to complete the short online form. We’ll then get in touch for a chat!

Jonathan Mills, Franchisee in Romford, Dagenham, Barking, and Ilford tells us of five year old, Daisy’s first experience on a Premier Sport event -

“Five year old, Daisy Joyce has just started attending Premier Sport events. As the only girl on the course, she was initially hesitant about attending but her mother tells us her daughter now loves it.

Don’t worry if you’ve missed any newsletters, here are the links to the previous ones we’ve sent you since August –

• January 2015 issue 2
• January 2015 issue 1
• December 2014 issue 2
• December 2014 issue 1
• November 2014 issue 2
• November 2014 issue 1
• October 2014 issue 2
• October 2014 issue 1
• September 2014
• August 2014