The Founder and Director of Club Hub UK

Tessa Robinson ‘Club Hub’ journey began back in September 2014. After having not as much acting work as she had hoped for she decided to create ‘Tessa’s Jazz Hands’; her own Musical Theatre Children’s Club in East Sheen in South West London.

Tessa Robinson was already a well-known babysitter in the area. With her Mum working at the local school, she managed to secure a few children to join her club. Tessa started teaching children every Wednesday after school, everything she could in terms of acting, singing and dancing. At the time she only had a few children coming each week which sparked her idea which has now become ‘Club Hub’.

Tessa Robinson thought that there should be a way that she could promote her club to all the local parents. She then thought about creating an app where people could locate all the children’s clubs in their area. A simple app where parents could input their child’s age and interests, and the search results would list local clubs and their details.

This was just a pipe dream though as financially it wasn’t viable, so she continued to promote ‘Tessa’s Jazz Hands’ on social media similar to every other children’s club she knew. She put the idea to the back of her mind and began working in other jobs to support herself financially.

Then Tessa Robinson found Ideas Britain, an app where you could upload your idea and get it out to the world.

Following advice, feedback and virtual investments ‘Club Hub’ began to gather momentum and gain massive public interest, getting hundreds of views each day and rising to the top of the #Insport competition that Ideas Britain had created.

Suddenly Tessa received an email from Ideas Britain asking her to have a meeting with the founder and CEO of ‘The Lighthouse Company’ (one of the coaches supporting the app). This was an incredible opportunity for her and she couldn’t believe the amount of support everyone was giving her.

On the 25th of February 2016 Tessa Robinson came second in the #Insport competition. She started to develop ‘Club Hub’ with the support and guidance of several Ideas Britain coaches such as Marcus Isman-Egal and Menno Marien who, with discussion, gave her additional Ideas for the app. Tessa started building up a database of parents and children’s clubs on social media and asked her college friend (Ella Harding) to create the app logo.

In the months to follow Tessa Robinson researched many different app developing companies and it wasn’t until one of her twitter followers ‘The Atom Club’ mentioned a social enterprise company ‘Dorset Tech’ in April 2016 that she finally found her creators of ‘Club Hub’.