Friday 15th May 2015

In the month of April we processed a total of £712,413 payments - that’s a payment of £424 every minute!

We’re delighted to announce the new Irongate platform is live. Please copy/paste the following URL and this will open up the portal at the login page.

http://icu.irongategroup.co.uk/preedu

Simply enter your unique username and password to gain access to the array of marketing collateral.

Your Unique User Name is: your email address

Your password is: preedu

70% of the top ten performing franchisees in our network rank in the top 15 (out of 105 franchises) for highest % of active schools using the Schools Portal. This is by far and away our single biggest USP, so why wouldn’t you use it?

This article covers the following important areas within your business. Please take time to read this in full -

• First Aid and Emergency Procedures
• Serious Injury
• Serious Incident
• Dealing with an Injury or Incident IN SCHOOL
• Dealing with an Injury or Incident OUT OF SCHOOL
• Injury or Incident Reporting

You don’t have to stick to first name/surname format on ID badges; you can have Miss Hare or Mr Tortoise!

Extracurricular:

• Number of sessions delivered up by 21% on the same period last year (September to April).
• Average income per session up by 22% on the same period last year.
• School funded sessions up by 49% on the same period last year.
• On average, each franchise has delivered 895 extracurricular clubs this year – That’s the equivalent of over 37 days (20% of an entire school year!!).

We’re offering your parent members and their children the chance to be a part of N5L this summer via three exciting competitions to win tickets. Two of the competitions will be via the Parent News Update and Facebook, the other will be a ‘golden ticket’ giveaway. More about the golden tickets next week...

Good news - Danny Bloomfield’s franchise has secured funding to deliver (via Suffolk County Council’s Adult & Community Service Division) a one year Golden Mile pilot across 10 Suffolk nurseries. The long term goal is to secure further funding to offer Golden Mile to all nurseries, early years settings and primary schools across the whole of Suffolk.

Golden Mile Director, Karl Fox says ““It’s no coincidence that the best performing franchise understands the importance of creating the correct structure in order for them to maximise their investments. Unfortunately, just having the right intentions doesn’t generate the same success”.

The eLearning Portal is now accessible from the ‘Links’ section of the BMS, making it even easier for you to access in the future.

The Premier Performing Arts package menu is now available as a resource on the BMS. Using this method for sales has already proven a great success amongst a number of licensees.

On Saturday 6th of June, PEG Director, Karl Fox will take part in a ‘Jackson Williams Corporate Boxing Show’ to raise money for a cause that’s close to him and his family’s heart. Karl will be boxing for his Dad who was sadly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease just a couple of months ago.

Karl said: “My dad has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, so I will be doing this for him and for all those people and families that have been affected by this terrible illness, hopefully raising some money along the way. All his life, Dad has been a keen sportsman but this will be his toughest match yet, so any donations will be massively appreciated by me and my family. My biggest critic, yet my proudest supporter... this one is for you, Dad.”  

The Golden Mile License network has grown 25% since the start of the new school year, meaning more and more franchisees are utilising the Golden Mile to leverage their Premier Sport offering.

The Creative Industries Federation and the Institution of Civil Engineers have joined forces to call for more students to study both arts and sciences. The campaign group says that Ofsted should judge a school as outstanding only if it can show children are given a wide range of cultural experiences. Also arguing, arts subjects should be given more status in England's school curriculum.

In a report, they argue that creative subjects are as important as science, maths, engineering and technology. The government says it provides a broad and balanced curriculum for children in which the arts play a "key role".

Great news for our Premier Perfroming Arts licensees...

Are you finding schools less easy to communicate with? Have you considered that it may not be you, it could be them?

Glenn Hoy from TIME Associates has undergone new research amongst other companies that provide products and services to schools and had found that teachers are now much more ‘savvy’ towards generic sales jargon.

His advice is to make sure your communications become more ‘human’ so schools can feel your personality shining through. This way, you will find schools are more receptive to the PEG brand and the services you have to offer.

As you are all aware, your accounts for the period 1st January to 30th April 2015 are due by 31st May. Please ensure you are/have been proactive in passing your financial information to your accountant in order to achieve this.

This was a key process from our NTE event; we have invested in some resource to be able to provide detailed network analysis from your submissions.

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.