Friday 10th July 2015

The booking deadline is next Friday 17th July to book onto the next CIM Social Media course at PEG HQ (Monday 14th September).

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 not being active on social media. We bet your competitors are!

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.

Arsenal & England Ladies star, Carla Humphrey visited Gareth Simpson’s schools last week, as a result, the Marketing team generated over £10,000 worth of printed and online press exposure, reaching over 800,000 people. Check out the online news feature from Carla’s visit.. 

This questionnaire is to be used as part of your impact report linked to ‘improving attitude towards PE and sport’. The evidence from your questionnaire will prove your worth in the children’s eyes to the school.

To complete the questionnaire simply share your personalised questionnaire link which can be found in this spreadsheet, with all class teachers and ask them to ensure all children complete every question. Please ensure you test the link before sending on to your schools.

School funded clubs have increased by 293% since the introduction of the School Sport Premium Funding.

We’ve pledged over £150,000 of sport as part of the ‘Responsibility Deal’.

This week, the Skills and Compliance Team hosted live complimentary training webinars, offering advice and updates on current topics that affect you.

The complimentary training was free to attend and the topics included:

• Activity Professional Apprenticeships
• The New Activity Professional Training Framework and MOS
• Zero Hours Contracts

There are half a million pupils within our active schools.

We’re delighted offer Premier Sport and Inspire to Engage Packages via the Irongate shop. These give you the opportunity the buy our latest literature and merchandising saving you time and money. It consists of eight different packages which include the most relevant marketing materials that you need to promote your business successfully. Also, each package offers you a discount of up to 10%.

The next complimentary Skills and Compliance webinar topic will be ‘Training Framework’ held on Thursday 23rd July, 11am - 12pm.

You can now order a customised Interview Backdrop from the Irongate shop. To improve your visual marketing the requested interview walls are now available for interviewing children or parents, before/after attending your holiday courses.

Remember, you must always get consent from the parent before you video their child(ren).

Are you using social media to promote your business? You can include your social media pages on the artwork, helping you to promote the brand and product range more effectively.

Courtney has spoken to or sent correspondence to over 100 schools and councils so far this week as we continue to ensure payments and remittances are reaching the correct destination.

The submission date for your NSSW videos has now passed and we’ll be announcing the winner of the ambassador visit soon. In the meantime, check out the latest video by hitting the play button.

Golden Mile Director, Karl Fox said “As per my ‘Golden Nugget’ last week, it’s fantastic that you now have these Golden Mile video case studies but it’s crucial that they are marketed to your customers and in a way that will have the most impact. Please ask the marketing department for support. We are all aware of the power of video and referrals, so make it count!”

Research shows 83% of satisfied customers are willing to refer... only 29% actually do, 54% missed referrals are due to lack of a system in place... make sure you’re optimising your Golden Mile NSSW video case studies...

Some great news ahead of the summer’s Inspire to Engage courses, so far this year, we’ve seen the following growth in holiday time activities -

• 10% increase on daily income across the network
• 6% increase on average daily attendance

Remember to keep the courses professional and fun, returning customers are key, consider incentivising your staff on courses and encourage parents to book additional days throughout the summer.

Premier Performing Arts holiday sessions are up by 83% compared to last year and you still have two weeks to promote the summer courses. Well done guys!

So you want to get involved with Premier Performing Arts and you can see the benefits following Nick Shirley’s video last week, but the big question on your mind is...

RECRUITMENT!

We can talk to you about the numerous ways to attract performing arts specialists in your territory but what better way to find out by listening to the no.1 business owner in the network, Danny Bloomfield. Danny explains how he’s recruited and integrated the correct person into his business.

This briefing provides a summary of Chancellor George Osborne’s first budget of the new government and the first budget of an all-Conservative government for 19 years. The budget outlines spending plans and cuts for the next five years and seeks to clarify where £17bn worth of savings will be made out of a total £37bn for the coming parliament.

9th September 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 our franchisees and schools to help make it the most active day of the year.

We want to make it as easy as possible for schools and teachers to get involved, which is why we will be sending out extensive FREE collateral packs (listed in the ‘read more’ section) to all schools that sign up.

TIME Associates’ Glenn Hoy attending a meeting with Lead Activity Professional, Ross Catchpole and a PE Coordinator in Norfolk yesterday and said the following;

“Ross had obviously done his pre-visit preparation so that he could brief me about who we were meeting and he led the meeting from the start.

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.