Here at Club Hub we have put together a list of fantastic suppliers for Kids Activity Providers who can help you and your business. They include insurance, admin and booking systems, first aid training, marketing, advertising and memberhip bodies.
Firstly we thoroughly recommend signing up to our website – Club Hub UK. The UK’s largest Kids Activity Directory. We receive over 250,000 views from parents across the UK each month, 80% of that traffic coming from organic search.
We only do targeted marketing based on proximity so you get maximum exposure to people you want As a result of our work many local kids activity providers have been inundated with messages from parents. Club Hub is Free for Charities and Non Profit Businesses and £32 per year for all other Kids Activity related businesses.
What’s included in my Club Hub Membership?
Since 2012 membermeister has worked closely with business owners across a variety of activity and education businesses, from dance schools to swimming clubs and language schools to martial arts. They have first hand experience of how stressful and time consuming it can be to manually keep on top of your student data, enrolments, invoicing, payments, emails/communications and lots more!
Their award winning, industry leading software is super simple to use, will reduce your admin by more than 80% and automate your billing – so you never have to deal with late or missed payments again.
Why choose membermeister?
For a free, no obligation 30 day trial just head over to: www.membermeister.com
Paediatric First Aid Courses – Ofsted and HSE Compliant
Daisy First Aid are approved providers of paediatric first aid training. This paediatric first aid course meets the requirements of the Early Years foundation stage statutory framework. The course focuses on emergency scenarios that are faced by professionals, including teachers, au pairs and playgroup leaders, looking after young children.
The Platinum+ 12 hour course meets Ofsted requirements for registered childminders and the requirements for nannies under the Approved Carers Scheme. It can also be used as evidence for employees working towards an NVQ in Childcare and Education. The trainers that provide these courses are fully qualified in both experience, first aid and training.
The courses are CPD accredited and start at just £20!
Hey – I’m Chris Ryu, Founder of Dorset Tech – an award winning social enterprise that proves that you can be successful without being greedy!
We build websites and apps (including Club Hub!) at discounted rates, then donate the profits to various community projects including our own kids clubs and our very own education centre.
Digital has allowed businesses of all sizes to compete on a level playing field. We’ve helped micro-businesses knock multi-nationals off the top spot on Google and platforms like Club Hub help build awareness for even the smallest of budgets.
www.dorset.tech/web-design-services
Known as one of the UK’s leading childcare insurance specialists, Morton Michel has over 54 years’ experience in the Early Years sector!
Our Children’s Activity Group policy is designed to provide expert insurance for children’s activity providers. We recognise the importance that children’s activity providers bring to a child’s learning and development and the flexibility your business needs. The package also includes FREE Early Years training, legal expenses cover and loads of exclusive discounts and benefits as part of our ChildCare Club!
Known for her straight talking but supportive style, Cerys Keneally helps dance teachers and kids’ activity providers to get more work with UK schools & nurseries without cold-calling them so that they can begin to approach schools with confidence, even if they’ve tried emailing them in the past with no response. In times of crisis, she’s also been helping members of her community to quickly get their businesses online without expensive platforms or lots of ‘tech’ so that they can continue doing what they love.
As an ex primary school teacher with 10 years experience of running a dance company that works with UK schools, Cerys has combined all of her experience with her coaching & mentoring training to create the Primary Dance & Activity Provider Business Club and its VIP Lounge, which is her private coaching and online training community.
To work with Cerys, sign up to her mailing list at www.ceryskeneally.com where you can find out more about her 5 day free challenges, group memberships and one to one coaching packages. Cerys will send you her free ‘Approaching Schools’ workbook & ‘Get Your Kids’ Activity Biz Online’ guide in return.
Most people think their website and booking system works a treat on a phone, sadly, that is often not the reality. This is where FranScape can help. FranScape uses cutting edge technology to prepare your business for the digital revolution without the big investment.
We use amazing tech to digitally transform your business off the shelf:
All of this and more from just £10 per month. No upfront fees and no charges for onboarding.
Our friendly team help great businesses just like yours process close to 100,000 payments every month. We cater for all clients, some at the start of their business journey right through to multi-million-pound industry veterans.
If you are reflecting on how to take your business forward from a digital perspective, reach out to our friendly team. We just love what the right technology can do for a brand. Even if we are not the right fit for you, we would be more than happy to point you in the right direction.
We’re told that FranScape is one of the most exciting kids’ activity suppliers in the UK. Even though we were founded during the pandemic, we have already won the 2021 UK Business Awards for Best New Business.
Get in touch and say hello, we would love to hear from you
Website: www.franscape.io
Trustist was founded by Nigel Apperley in August 2014. At the time he was the director of E-commerce at Kwik-Fit and has held senior positions at Slendertone, Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton and Canon Europe. Nigel also started Internet Cameras Direct in 1999 and grew the business from nothing to a turnover of over £20m before selling to a French company. Trustist generates sales opportunities for franchises and children’s activities businesses by using your customer reviews.
They do this by:
You can book a free personalised demonstration with Trustist here: www.trustist.org/
The Institute of Children’s Activity Providers (ICAP) is a professional membership body for the children’s activities sector. We support providers through advice and thought leadership; best practice and compliance; education and networking; and we champion and promote collaboration in the industry.
Andy is a leading Franchise Business Consultant – fiercely committed to guiding business owners build happy, profitable and successful franchise networks.
With qualifications in Business, Management, Digital Media and Marketing, he has over 13 years franchising experience and has helped build, advise and grow leading 6 and 7 figure franchise brands in the past decade including a number of high profile children’s activity brands.
His strategic big picture thinking, small detail orientated focus and general down to earth approach allow clients to start working ‘on’ the business instead of ‘in’ the business and focus on scaling both nationally and internationally.
Don’t just take our word for it, find out what others say about working with Andy here: https://fransquared.co.uk/
If you are ready to transform your business and take it to the next level using franchising as a vehicle he’d love to work with you.
Blackcurrant Babies have been putting brands in mum’s and dad’s hands for over 5 years working with some of the best loved baby and toddler groups in the UK. We work with popular national brands distributing their products in sample sized packs, giving parents and carers the opportunity to ‘try before they buy’. We know parents and carers love the free goodies and our brands often give additional money off-coupons and run fun competitions through our networks.
The product are supplied free of charge to groups and nurseries, all we ask is that they are distributed with care and where possible supported on social media.
If you are a baby or toddler group or nursery you can sign up to be part of our distribution network by filling out our registration network. We look forward to meeting you.
www.facebook.com/Blackcurrantbabies/
With over 10 years experience across the franchise industry and in developing businesses, the main mission of Franchise Futures is to provide consulting and specialist support services to: franchisors, franchisees, prospective franchise buyers and business owners considering franchising as an option for successful business growth.
“My job is simple, I want to help build successful franchises and on the back of that, ensure franchisors have successful and positively happy franchise partners.”
Hi Everyone My name is Lucy and I am the proud owner of Sofia Grace Advertising.
My main aim is to help people get noticed on social media with high quality, cost effective advertising. I offer bespoke promo adverts however my main concentration at the moment is helping businesses with daily video content to provide a consistent message across all their social media platforms.
On my newly designed website I have a shop section where you can choose your own video out of a selection of targeted videos towards Children’s industry. Once you have chosen your video you can upload your own logo. This will appear as a water mark throughout and at the end where you can also add your own tagline.
www.sofiagraceadvertising.co.uk