Friday 16th October 2015

Inspired by the traditional fable; Tortoise and the Hare demonstrates even if you do not think you can succeed, with the best effort, focus and determination you may be surprised at what you can acheive.

The characters are the perfect advocates for our Inspire to Engage programme – designed to inspire all kids to enjoy being active during the holiday periods.

To support your Inspire to Engage programmes, we’re nearing the final stages of producing our mascot Tortoise and the Hare costumes, which will be available to hire upon completion (‘Read more’ to see the progress pictures).

We’ll create your branded YouTube Channel complete with the new animated intro/outro’s for Premier Education Group and Premier Sport.

If you’re unfamiliar with uploading and editing videos then don’t worry, we’ll give you a quick demo.

The benefits of having your own business YouTube Channel are endless. We’ve managed to highlight seven benefits that will give your business a little extra va-va-voom!

We’ve had a number of franchisees requesting a wider selection of networking events running alongside (not instead of) your regional network meetings. It’s been well documented of the huge success of last April’s 100 Club Celebration Day at St. George’s Park, an event which allowed business owners the opportunity to network with other business owners of similar size, who face the same challenges and goals.

Therefore, this year, as well as the regional network meetings, Operations Director, Danny Melling is inviting different groups of franchisees to attend ‘differentiated’ networking events to ensure that everybody leaves each event with relevant, useful information to help push their business to the next level.

Following the launch of the new updated Delivery Operations Manual, we’re pleased to be launching the new and improved Activity Professional Manual, coming soon.

The new manual has been updated with all the latest developments including lesson planning, new policies and the Schools Portal. Its new layout is easy for Activity Professionals to refer to and essential for all new starters.

All Activity Professionals will be receiving their own hardcopy manual in the post over the next couple of weeks, so it’s important to make sure that their postal address is correct and that your workforce is up to date on the BMS.

With October half term around the corner, hopefully all your literature is printed and in the hands of parents. Just as a reminder, if you are including a phone number for bookings on your literature/banners/etc. you are required to have the Premier Sport head office number (01953 499040).

If you would also like to include your own business number for enquiries, please ensure it is a landline number only. Mobile numbers should not displayed on your literature in any circumstances.

Premier Performing Arts have teamed up with The Sun Perks to celebrate BBC One’s hit show, Strictly Come Dancing.

This exclusive offer for The Sun readers promotes your Premier Performing Arts activities, driving new customers onto your holiday and extracurricular courses.

To take advantage of this offer, parents will need to book via our central Customer Services team.

To view the offer, click here.

In the past couple of weeks, we’ve shared with you video tutorials on -

• Give your Activity Professionals access to the BMS.
• ‘Administrator Privileges’ video.
• How to access your online bookings...
• How to invoice curricular courses
• invoicing extracurricular courses

This week we’d like to highlight the video tutorial ‘Scheduling Activity Professional Assessments.’

The number of Activity Professionals across the network grew by 34% last year.

So far this month (10 working days), we’ve already processed over £650k in franchisee/licensee payments, with at least two payment runs a week.

With the launch of our brand new website Make Sport Your Business, we’re set to increase the price of becoming a business owner with Premier Education Group. This is great news for you - without doing anything, this means the value of your business has increased.

Not only will the value of your business increase, we’re giving 100 Club members the chance to invest in an additional territory, enjoying a 50% discount. In addition, the price increase will be on hold for 100 Club members until Saturday 31st October to maximise the savings and value of your investment.

National Quality Development Manager, Andy Heald will be hosting his second monthly GoToTraining session this Monday, focusing on Behaviour & Safety.

Last month’s GoToTraining with Andy was fully subscribed, so please ensure you register your Act Pro’s now to guarantee a spot!

October’s Theme - Behaviour & Safety
Date – Monday 19th October 2015
Time – 12.00 - 13.00pm

We carried out 25% more assessments on staff last year than the year before and we were 12% more productive on like-for-like figures.

Finance Director, Steve Girling is calling for all business owners to join him and his team for a GoToMeeting support session this Monday from 10-11am.

Steve will answer your questions or queries you may have around the subject of Finance and covering subjects such as bookkeeping, cash flow, profit & loss, balance sheets, budgeting, forecasting, VAT and financial analysis.

If you would like to focus on any particular finance question, please drop Steve an email so he add this to the agenda.

Before joining the call on Monday, please register now.

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.