Friday 29th May 2015

We had 5.4 million visits on our activities in term one and two. This equates to 11.5% more young people gaining access to high quality PE, sport and physical activity against the same period last year.

Danny comments: “There were 30-odd kids on my course, which was great, but the look and feel was terrible. A few A4 posters from the Inspire to Engage range randomly put up on walls, there were a line of cones / markers leading to the doorway but they had all been kicked around and the rubbish hadn’t been swept up. The registration desk was bland with no tuck-shop or merchandise displayed and there were a few ‘boot room’ branded posters on the wall. It certainly wasn’t ‘WOW’”.

In contrast, Franchisee Adam Kempton has gone above and beyond for his customers. He’s hired a vintage coffee van for £50 per day to give free drinks to parent’s as well as ensuring they all receive his summer course leaflets. If Adam gets four bookings as a result, it covers the cost of the van for the day.

He’s factored the costs into his marketing budget and it is certain to ‘WOW’ his customers!

Our new Marketing Executive, Jasmine has created and launched 15 ‘official’ Facebook pages on behalf of business owners that completed the recent CIM social media online and face-to-face training. This means the brand exposure national and locally is set to reach record levels. Are you missing out?

We are pleased to announce that, from August 2014 to now, we have already carried out more assessments on Activity Professionals than the whole of the previous year August 2013 - September 2014.

To date, 1084 assessments have been scheduled or carried out across the network. As we enter the half way stage of the summer term, Activity Professionals should now be receiving their 3rd assessment of the year. These are great opportunities to monitor staff improvement and performance, making CPD recommendations ready for the new school year.

The Skills & Compliance team are in consultation with our legal team this week, discussing how changes to non exclusivity clauses in zero hour contracts could affect our network. We’ll update you ASAP.

The Premier Performing Arts network has already grown by 61% this academic year against last year and we still have three months to go! This demonstrates the positive impact existing licensees are having on potential new licensees.

As this is the time of year that you will be setting your prices for September, we have put together this video and worksheet to support you to charge appropriately.

• Support video
• Worksheet

Correct pricing for your products is absolutely key to running a successful business, therefore, we have provided the minimum product prices for you to use as a baseline, including the minimum recommended mark ups for each product.

There are two similarities between the success stories recently submitted by Golden Mile licensees. 1) All have been invited to multiple cluster meetings within their territory which has averaged potential access to 35 new schools in 1.5 hours of work. 2) All licensees have a Physical Activity Coordinator in post.

Next Wednesday 3rd June, PEG Training Academy will be without power due to an upgrade of high voltage equipment in the area. As a result of this, the building will not be manned and ALL phone calls will be fielded to our database, which will be picked up and actioned the following day.

This is a situation which is out of our control.

Apologies in advance, for any inconvenience caused.

This month we have received 4,000 payments through our payment gateway (Sage Pay). We have just successfully completed our quarterly compliance check which ensures we continue to accept payment from the various card schemes.

The Golden Mile’s multi-facetted approach is playing its part in growing licensees businesses as well as retaining it! We’ve heard some fantastic success stories recently and indeed the importance of the structure surrounding them. Another excellent example of all of the above is from licensee Elliot Anderson.

Golden Mile Director, Karl Fox commented: “Elliot has implemented the correct structure with a Physical Activity Coordinator in post and has started to see the benefits, not only from a new business perspective but securing his existing business with some extraordinary results”.

If you have a question or comment about the products/services on the new Irongate platform, you can contact [email protected]

We now have 18 businesses across the network launch their official Facebook pages following the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) online modules and face-to-face training at HQ. Their Twitter accounts will also launch next week.

The next training course is now available to book via the online shop. But first, hit ‘The process’ button below to find out what is required before being able to connect with your local stakeholders.

Is the information held on the BMS for your company and its Directors correct?

We currently hold two sets of addresses for Directors on the BMS. Your company’s Registered Office address must match those details held at Companies House and the Director’s address/es should be the operating address, i.e. where post and packages should be delivered to.

If you need to make a change to any address on the system, simply email [email protected] who will amend the details on your behalf.

September 9th is National Fitness Day and this year ukactive – the leading not-for-profit health body for the physical activity sector – are excited to work with schools to help make it the most active day of the year.

Thousands of people up and down the country will be taking part in National Fitness Day. From schools and colleges to offices and gyms, there will be lots of activities taking place.

National Fitness day is about getting children of all ages to engage with physical activity in a positive way, helping build strong relationship with exercise and habits that will set them up to be an healthy adult.

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

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

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