Friday 13th November 2015

Having your own website landing page offers you the advantage of a personalised micro-site for your territory, meaning, with just one click of a button, you can drive your customers straight to your page to view your information, timetables, meet your staff and book your courses.

A benefit of purchasing the ‘Advance’ and ‘Pro’ package, is you’ll able to add your landing page web link on all your artwork meaning you can drive your customers straight to the page.

You and your staff members have now had two weeks to familiarise yourselves with the Schools Portal dashboard via the staging site, ensuring all data is correct before going live.

We aim to go live with a ‘soft launch’ next Thursday 19th November. This means that it will go live but we won’t communicate this to schools until the official launch, a week later on 27th November.

As mentioned in the recent newsletters, we’ll be offering some differentiated support and Business2Business networking days for franchisees. These started with the recent 100 Club event which was a real success. The next event will be a ‘Business Booster’ event for any franchisees that are building towards 100 Clubs status.

Due to the success of the last event and the feedback from franchisees, we’ve decided to repeat the format and include the same speakers, who’ll help you achieve your goals of reaching the 100 Club. You will have seen the number of ‘outstanding ideas’ that we’ve shared from the last event, all of which are helping franchisees to implement growth and expansion strategies.

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The festive period is just around the corner and our Xmas range of literature and merchandise has landed!

You can now personalise your holiday leaflets, banners & posters via the Irongate Store.

How to order your Bespoke Christmas Literature & Banners:

Our Halloween themed Inspire to Engage holiday courses have seen a huge increase in numbers compared to the same period last year.

Across the network we have:

• Delivered 41% more sessions than the same period last year
• Increased the number of children attending by 24%
• Increased Attendance by 27%
• Increased the number of sessions per franchise by 22%
• Average price per hour on holiday courses is £2.52, a 21% increase on year ending Aug 2014

In last week’s Parent newsletter, we asked them to complete a very quick survey based on their experience following half term Halloween activities.

Some highlights from the survey -

1. Even though the average price across the network has increased, 97% said it was excellent/good value for money
2. 97% said your reliability was excellent/good
3. 95% of children extremely enjoyed/enjoyed the activity

Olympic gold medalist Duncan Goodhew MBE surprised the pupils at the John Whitgift Academy in Grimsby to raise the flag on their Road to Rio activities along with new franchisee, Simon Gibbons.

On the day, over 40 children took part from five primary schools across Grimsby trying Olympic disciplines such as, Fencing, Athletics, and Archery, with a little Dodgeball thrown in for good measure too. All the activities delivered by specialists from Premier Sport, the UK’s leading provider of physical education and sports coaching services to schools, whose mission is to inspire young people through PE, sport and physical activity.

Just like we’ve done for Premier Education Group and Premier Sport, we’ve now commissioned a Premier Performing Arts animated intro/outtro allowing you to top and tail your videos.

The easiest way for you to access these is for us to send them to you via WhatsApp. Simply drop us a WhatsApp to 07921 264352 and we’ll send them across.

Have you got an official YouTube channel? If you have, we’ll add the intro/outro directly to your editing suite upon request.

If you haven’t, place your order now via the shop.

“When did you last get an unexpected ‘gift’ from a supplier or client and how did you feel?” asks Glenn Hoy of TIME Assosiates.

Going on to add, “it may not have been a personal gift but could have been some information about your market sector, a business book or even an article about your favourite sport or pastime.”

National Quality Development Manager, Andy Heald will be hosting his third monthly GoToTraining session on Tuesday 17th November, focusing on The Use of Assessments.

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

November’s Theme - The Use of Assessments
Date – Tuesday 17th November 2015
Time – 8.00 - 9.00am

Monday’s ‘Operations Business Development’ GoToMeeting will be discussing ‘Sales’ from 10am-11am.

If you want to add any points to the meeting agenda, please email these over to Operations Director, Danny Melling before Monday’s session.

Login details –

1. To join the meeting, go to - https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/250214829
2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.  Or, call in using your telephone.
   Dial +44 (0) 20 3713 5010
   Access Code: 250-214-829
   Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
   Meeting ID: 250-214-829

A regular ‘Delivery’ Q&A GoToMeeting with our National Quality Development Manager, Andy Heald.

Andy Heald will take any questions / queries / guidance he receives via email to form the agenda points in these sessions. The chances are, other franchisees/Activity Professionals with benefit from your question being answered.

Hit the button below and you’ll be given the option to secure your place on the following session/s -

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.