Friday 24th July 2015

The news we’ve all been waiting for as the government have this week announced they will continue their investment into the Primary PE and Sport Premium Funding.

The Primary PE & Sport Premium was introduced in 2013 and saw the government allocate funding of £150 million per annum for academic years 2013 to 2014 and 2014 to 2015 to improve provision of physical education (PE) and sport in primary schools in England. This funding would go directly to primary school headteachers in order for them to decide how to use it to best provide PE and sporting activities for pupils.

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Do you want to take the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) social media training course? We only have 6 places left for the next CIM training course. We now have over 20 businesses across the network launch their official Facebook pages following the CIM online modules and face-to-face training at HQ.

You can now personalise literature via the Irongate Shop. We’ve created this helpful video to assist you.

To ensure you don’t let the next six weeks pass you by, Danny Melling and James Jennison are giving you a fantastic opportunity to get a head start on 2015/16, by delivering a six week training programme over the school holidays.

The online training will be delivered via GoToMeeting and each week will focus on a different area of your business. To book onto Monday’s session you need to email James by 8pm tonight.

This year, the highest school spend was £88,000. Additionally, we’ve had five who each spent over £50k, 10 schools spent over £35k, 18 schools spent over £30k and 60 schools spent over £20k.

Are you and your schools accessing and utilising our single biggest USP, the Schools Portal?

Premier Sport business partners, Karl Fox and Danny Boswell recently saved a school contract worth over £10k per year purely because of the School Portal. This Headteacher had decided that she could find alternative provision cheaper elsewhere. That was until Danny showed her our unique Schools Portal, which includes years worth of planning and pupil assessments.

Since last week’s Weekly News Update, Danny Melling has released five ‘Operational Structures & Time Management’ videos. To view all five, please visit our YouTube channel.

...said no one ever... but this is what your business is potentially missing out on if you are not utilising Base Line Measurements (BLM’s), even without up-selling a Premier Sport event!

Golden Mile Director, Karl Fox commented; “In my franchises, BLM’s have had a colossal impact on the way we approach schools and indeed in the way we up serve to our customers. We’ve reduced so much waste which has enabled us to employ a full-time and a part-time member of staff to oversee this part of the business.”

Every new franchisee and licensee entering the business undergoes a ‘director interview’ with two company directors. This includes presenting their business plan and financial targets before being signed to begin induction.

The Premier Performing Arts ‘Young Arts Ambassador (YAA)’ is fresh off the press and ready for launch in your area.

Download your free resources that include –

• Poster
• A5 leaflet
• Word document

The summer holiday is the perfect time to start communicating the YAA in your area, spreading brand awareness and gaining extra numbers on your courses.

Premier Performing Arts ‘Young Arts Ambassador’ is live, visit premierperformingarts.co.uk. View the website and keep an eye on Facebook and Twitter for more details.

Your new ‘Make It Personal!’ section is now live on the Irongate shop. This section will enable resources to be customised for overprinting by Irongate and delivered ready for instant use and distribution.

We have invested many hours in rebuilding our artwork to make it better suited for the shop, allowing full customisation of materials for greater local relevancy and to offer instant proofs and artwork files.

You can now customise the following resources...

Over the past three consecutive months (April - June), The Golden Mile has seen its highest ever number of active children averaging over 18,000 each month.

Premier Sport will travel to Tanzania this Saturday as part of ‘The Rafiki Group’, a charity comprising of several partnerships between schools in Devon, USA and schools from Tanzania.

Premier Sport’s Area Coordinator, Alex Ford travels to Tanzania this weekend along with the Head and staff from Redhills Community Primary School in Devon, a school that Premier Sport have partnered with for just over a year now. Alex’s role will be to deliver sports coaching in a number of Tanzanian schools,  similar to the work Premier Sport deliver to 3000+ schools across the UK. Alex will deliver inspirational PE lessons to the children at Donge School in Tanga whilst up skilling the current members of staff and other charity volunteers.

Although there is natural tendency to slow down (or take a well-deserved break) as the schools are now closed, this is also as ideal time to review your outcomes from your 2014/15 Sales Plans.

Did you get more business from existing schools and generate more income from new schools?

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.