Friday 24th April 2015

It’s been a busy but productive few weeks at Premier HQ and we’re very pleased to announce a number of exciting new opportunities to support your business over the coming months.

Firstly, we’ve secured the support of Darren Campbell MBE to officially launch our Inspire to Engage programme. Darren is in the top six British sprinters of all time and has 21 medals to his name, including Olympic gold for the 4x100m relay in 2004, and Olympic silver for the 200m at the 2000 Sydney Games. He is a great advocate for the brand and the new programme which he officially launched at Sandringham Primary School in Newham.

Premier Performing Arts is now a fully registered LAMDA centre enabling you to offer exams to your pupils.

Following this year’s National Training Event, we are now able to release the Business Structure Operations Manual which can be found on the BMS resource section under Business.

With input from all PEG departments, Franchise Champions and outside consultants - this manual is a comprehensive guide to the structure and functions required in running your business the Premier way.

This week, the marketing department invested a massive £15,000 on two ambassador events which will result in national and local exposure for your business.

It has been brought to our attention from our server management company that some franchisees maybe operating their email accounts and internet browsers without antivirus protection on their computers.

This could potentially have devastating effects on your business if left unchecked. Viruses can penetrate your software via email and internet resulting in software failures. Your emails can become blacklisted and fail to reach intended recipients. This too has a wider effect on all the @premiersport.org and @premier-education.com domains thus affecting other mailboxes throughout the organisation.

We invest £15,000 per year on your behalf, in our partnership with ukactive. This ensures we’re the first to know on all new policy / industry changes meaning we can react the quickest! Another great benefit is their key contacts within government – recently we met with the Department for Education to evidence the great work you’re all doing with young people.

From March 21st to April 21st, we generated 364.7k impressions via our social media platforms. This is the combined number of potential users that viewed official content associated with our Twitter & Facebook profiles. That’s a lot of people finding out about the great work YOU do!

The Finance department spent one day this week with the latest cohort of new franchisees / licensees talking about key processes for their business.

This time last year, following our Golden Mile central communications, Director Karl Fox negotiated a deal on behalf of Northumberland franchisee Steve Hoey with Programme Manager & School Games Organiser (SGO) of the Tynedale PE & School Sport Programme to purchase the Golden Mile. Not only did this generate a substantial amount of revenue for Steve (year 1 licensee at the time), it also created what has proven to be a very important relationship with a key stakeholder.

85% of the 100 Club members are Golden Mile licensees, further demonstrating a growth mindset amongst our top business owners.

Hopefully you’ve all now watched and read the feedback from 100 Club members that attended last week’s celebration day? Given the huge impact from the day, the attending franchisees chose to put a high value on their time (circa £500 - £5,000 per hour) - some 100 Club members have already secured business contracts worth £15,000 as a direct result of their learnings.

Some 100 Club members chose not to attend or were too busy working in their business - these franchisees chose to deliver a session instead, putting a value of £8 - £10 per hour on their time!

How do you measure the value on your time?

The new eight page Performing Arts schools brochure is now complete and available to order via the online shop.

Premier Performing Arts are now registered as a London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA) training centre which allows us to be able to enter students for exams in a wide range of genres including, communication and performance qualifications as well as musical theatre and public speaking.

There is a fantastic programme with LAMDA coming up in July that will support you delivering the syllabus. Check it out here. Frankie Worthington (our Creative Director) will be there and we would also like to give you the opportunity to attend. The cost is only £60 per day.

Our Marketing team invested over £5000 this week in another ambassador visit as part of their pledge to provide ‘even more’ to franchisees in 2015.

Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew MBE visited four of Gary Scroby’s hub schools in Aldershot and Ash yesterday to enthuse the pupils and talked about the positive impact that sport and physical activity has made on his own life and the important role it can play in staying fit, healthy and happy.

There is STILL over £60k worth of Holiday Camp’s that are awaiting Camp Return Forms. Please reconcile you camp bookings against the BMS and provide Courtney with your return form to release payments.

Of the camps that are outstanding, 22% of them are currently ‘non-compliant’ due to no Activity Professional being allocated to the course. Please note that your money will not be released until your course is compliant.

We’re proud to support The Outdoor Kids Sun Safety Code, the first accredited sun protection initiative designed for specifically for outdoor activity leaders. This spring they have launched a new and improved format which aims to help ‘Blow the Whistle on Sunburn!’

Devised by the Myfanwy Townsend Melanoma Research Fund, the Outdoor Kids Sun Safety Code is partnered with the Youth Sport Trust, the Association for Physical Education (AfPE), the Child Protection in Sport Unit and sports coach UK. Following its launch in 2014, the Outdoor Kids Sun Safety Code has increased its support to over 80 national governing bodies and outdoor activity groups, all of whom are encouraging their members to sign up and get involved.

On Your Marks...

ukactive have launched a new strategy for children’s physical activity, underpinned by a new ukactive kids membership category and a policy report due to be launched in early June calling for a greater focus on children’s activity levels by the next government.

This move follows the merger between the Compass Association and ukactive and has led to the formulation of a new ukactive kids board which will oversee the strategic direction of the new membership category and ukactive's vision of a more active childhood.

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.