Friday 6th May 2016

As highlighted at this week’s 100 Club event at the Olympic Park, we want all our Franchisees to be running million pound businesses, which we know you can all do. To support you to achieve this, we’re investing £15,000 back into your businesses to generate leads and gain new customers at a time when schools are looking to invest for next year.

You should have all now been invited to take part in the superb opportunity to get your share of the £15,000 of funding we’re investing in you. Working with our strategic partners and lead generators TIME Associates, we’re funding over 350 sales appointments on your behalf.

At the last ever 100 Club event this week we was delighted to launch our brand new incentive scheme – Going for Gold! Danny Melling explained the rationale behind the decision which has been driven by franchisees ‘Raising the bar’.

There were 90 people in attendance at the event and all were challenged with the following outcomes:

• Quality – remember why we do what we do
• Have a positive, growth mindset
• Take massive action

This week we’re looking at Core Value #7 “Nurture strong relationships through excellent communication”.

Communication is key to maintaining your relationships, both in your personal and work life – society simply couldn’t function without communication. Communication is a natural form of interacting with another person – dolphins “click” at each other, birds sing, and humans speak. However, great communication takes far more than just speaking to someone...

When we launched our new partnership with Creative Sport & Leisure (CSL) as national apprenticeship provider back in August 2015, we could never imagine the impact it would have on the network.

Based on previous years, the ambitious target of 50 apprentices was set and surpassed in the first two months. Entering the final term of the year we are just shy of 100 apprentices in learning, across the network.

We’ve recently conducted a full review of all your Facebook pages. Following this review, we have identified a handful of Facebook pages as being inactive (haven’t posted anything in the last few months).

If you cannot facilitate the daily management of social media within your current business structure, we do offer an excellent Social Media Management package that is great value for money – View the package here.

Following the launch of this summer’s 10,000 free ‘Inspire to Engage’ places, we’ve had over 150 parents register in just over seven days. This provides you with a great opportunity to convert these into paying customers.

The summer campaign is backed by Chris ‘Kammy’ Kamara and was launched at franchisee; Michael Johnson’s (pictured) Sandringham Primary School.

We got loads of great pictures and some awesome footage including interviews with Kammy, Michael, parents and the children. Check them out below.

This week we welcome Ricky Goddard to the finance team.

Ricky joins us a Finance Assistant and will support in all aspects of finance working alongside Courtney.

Feel free to drop Ricky an email to introduce yourself.

Following on from Andy’s ‘Irreplaceable’ video, this video from Danny Melling is a brilliant case study of being ‘Irreplaceable’ to schools.

Do you have formal review meetings every term?

On Thursday 21st April the Department for Education announced a new Grant for the provision of PE and school sport for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The successful bid will deliver a new programme to increase engagement and improve sports provision.

The closing date for grand applications is 2 p.m. on 09th May 2016.

Monday’s ‘Operations’ GoToMeeting will be from 10am - 11am. Danny will introduce the new ‘Going for Gold’ incentive scheme and how you can qualify.

If you want to add any points to the meeting agenda, please email these over to Operations Director, Danny Melling before Monday’s session.

Login details –

1. To join the meeting, go to - https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/250214829
2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.  Or, call in using your telephone.
   Dial +44 (0) 20 3713 5010
   Access Code: 250-214-829
   Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
   Meeting ID: 250-214-829

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been measuring the impact of the new Premier Performing Arts sales proposal and the results have been breathtaking. By utilising an education consultancy approach, licensees are maximising the opportunities within each school. In fact, one licensee has generated a whopping £17k of PPA business in just one school.

By using this document in existing schools, we have added at least two events for this school year, including holiday courses and enrichment weeks.

A regular ‘Delivery’ Q&A GoToMeeting with our National Quality Development Manager, Andy Heald.

Andy Heald will take any questions / queries / guidance he receives via email to form the agenda points in these sessions. The chances are, other franchisees / Activity Professionals will benefit from your question being answered.

Hit the button below and you’ll be given the option to secure your place on the following session/s -

Date: Tuesday 31st May
Venue: Derby (venue TBC)
Time: 9.00 – 16.30
No Lunch Provided

We thought you would find it useful to create a Weekly News Update archive housing previous newsletters from this academic year.

‘Read more’ to catch up on any news you may have missed.