Friday 19th June 2015

ukactive launched their much anticipated Generation Inactive report this week at the Law Society in Holborn. The event, attended by more than 80 of ukactive’s Strategic Partners and senior stakeholders, discussed the growing issue of physical inactivity in childhood. Delegates were invited to debate the report’s findings via a panel session featuring well-known faces from the sector as well as leading figures from children’s health and wellbeing such as former Children’s Commissioner Sir Al Aynsley-Green.

Over the past week, the Marketing team secured £11,340 of local press exposure on behalf of Essex franchisee, Chris Pipe and Taunton franchisee, Andrew Ovehill following Duncan Goodhew’s visit to their respective territories. These visits were at no cost to the franchisees!

Premier Education Group regularly provide activities in 12% of UK primary schools.

PEG and Creative Sport & Leisure have designed a suite of new fit for purpose Traineeships and Apprenticeships for both Premier Sport and Premier Performing Arts, combining accredited competency based and technical qualifications at every level, including the brand new Premier Passport unveiled at PEG’s 2015 National Training Event.

Last week’s ‘Golden Nugget’ was about ensuring your business allocates enough resource to next week’s NSSW video competition, here’s why – research shows ‘an introductory email that includes a video receives an increase click-through rate of 96%’.

The method for our payments is BACS (Bankers Automated Clearing Services), BACS is an electronic system to make payments directly from one bank account to another. BACS payments will take 3 working days to clear.

Following the release of Ofsted’s new 2015-16 handbook for inspecting schools, they have released a useful video to explain the changes.

We’ve highlighted four key points of observation on your behalf. When reading these points, please ask yourself how your  business would rate in a self audit of these areas and within the practice of supporting schools in the curriculum...

The Skills and Compliance and Marketing team are pleased to launch the new and improved process for booking onto Qualifications and Training events which is now via our homepage – following our investment, we’ve even managed to freeze the prices for you at the current rate (see article for more details).

The Golden Mile & Base Line Measurements continue to impact licensees’ revenue, schools awareness of their pupils physical activity levels and the measurement of pupils’ fitness.

Director Karl Fox commented “ukactive are calling for routine testing of children’s fitness following the release of Tuesday’s Generation Inactive report, revealing less than half of primary schools are recording time spent being physically active. We’ve been doing this for well over a year now, which has supported our licensees in a differentiated approach, providing tailored solutions for the specific, individual needs of our customers, which is fantastic!!”

Over the past three months, the marketing department have invested one hour every day during the launch and the ongoing development of IronGate. This level of time invested is to ensure we’re offering you an outstanding service when buying your literature.

Whilst we don’t issue contracts of employment to our network, we do provide the Non Compete Agreement. If your contracts of employment for zero hours do contain exclusivity clauses we advise as before, you get them checked by a solicitor and or the BFA prior to use.

Our standard Non Compete Agreement is still enforceable for full time or fixed hour contracts and will remain on the BMS for use in this way.

Since June 2014, we’ve provided 3,341 days on our Inspire to Engage holiday courses – that’s an increase of 51% from the previous year.

Over the past 3 months, we’ve invested significant time and money improving the way we offer you qualifications and training events.

As a result, it now couldn’t be easier to enrol on upcoming qualifications and training events. All you need to do is go to our homepage and click the ‘Qualification & Training’ option. It’s that easy!

Premier Performing Arts Creative Director, Frankie Worthington has launched a book club on behalf of licensees to share good practice and exchange notes on ‘business building’ publications such as, “Sell or be Sold” by Grant Cardone and “Think & Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill.

Premier Performing Arts, Creative Director Frankie Worthington is delighted to launch three new products on behalf of our licensees:

• Premier Achievers
• Young Arts Ambassadors
• Teacher Twilight package

Please click on the ‘read more’ sections for a brief of each new product.

The booking deadline is drawing ever closer to the next CIM Social Media course at PEG HQ. Launching your official Facebook and Twitter pages presents your business with a proven tool to communicate directly with your local stakeholders.

Your business is seriously missing a trick without being on social media. We bet your competitors are!

The next training course is now available. Before you book the course via the shop, hit ‘The process’ button below to find out the few simple steps required before being able to connect with your local stakeholders.

Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew MBE visited the Jim Peters Stadium to launch one of the biggest athletics events in the sporting calendar for over 300 primary school children in Barking and Dagenham.

Duncan raised the flag on the School Games Quad Kids Athletics Championships which is organised by the Barking and Dagenham School Sports Partnership, which sees year 3 and 4 children from local schools go head to head.

Great news - our young ambassador, Alfie Hewett will be making his Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon this year.

Alfie will partner Joachim Gerard in the doubles after receiving a wildcard for the prestigious Wimbledon Wheelchair Tennis Doubles Event which takes place at The Championships on 10th - 12th July 2015.

We wish him the best of luck!

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.