sports hub brochure

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a sporting chance for everyone

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• sports hub is an independent limited company seeking to provide “a sporting chance for everyone” in partnership with Sport England.

• sports hub will help everyone discover the sports they are best suitedto and then provide personalised information to support life-longparticipation in sport and physical recreation.

• At its heart is a tried and tested system – sports search – alreadydeployed in secondary schools in regions across the country withvery positive results.

• Everyone has untapped talent. sports search will help identify thattalent and the sports hub portal will then continue to encourage it.

sports hub – the company


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what is sports search?

• The results of these tests automaticallycalculate a personal physical profile for theindividual. This profile is used to rank thesports the individual is best suited to bycross-referencing with unique algorithms thathave been developed and tested by some ofthe world's leading sports scientists.

• Once a choice of sport from this list hasbeen made, sports search gives the individualdetails of the closest club specialising in thissport. It also notifies the club that anindividual with the potential to succeed inthe sport has been identified.

sports search involves anyindividual completing aseries of 11 simple physicaltasks and entering the resultsgained into the sports hubonline system.

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Once a user has been through the sports searchprogramme they can use the sports hub portal tofind out further key information that relates totheir chosen sport, (and others if they so wish).

Interaction with the portal will be encouragedby regular update e-mails, competitions, textmessages, online statistics, personlisedinformation, a results & fixtures service, advice and much more.

It is planned to build a community of registered sports hub users withsports search being at the core.

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enter through sports search

Top tips from stars

Coaching

Interviews

Equipment tips

Equipment sales

Competitions

Your fixturesYour

results

Your team page

Medical information

Common injuries

Training programmes

What to wear

National news

Your individual sporting history

the sports hub portalSome content areas


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During the pilot they gained the following endorsements.

• 87 (of the 112) national sports governing bodies

• British Heart Foundation

• Cardiac Risk in the Young

• British Association of Lecturers & Advisers of Physical Recreation (BAALPE)

• Physical Education Association (PEAUK)

sports hub are working in partnership with the NSPCC, Child Protection in Sport Unit.

endorsementsThe sports search programme wasinitially piloted by one of sports hubs’key partner organisations Sport England.


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pilot & research

• Without any formal promotion, the pilot succeededin attracting over 300 secondary schools. Theyremain registered and waiting to use the programme.

• In addition, every teacher that worked with it saidthat they would recommend the programme.

Subsequent independent research carried out inFebruary 2004 amongst PE teachers concluded.

• Only 8% of teachers were wary of using such asystem in their school.

• 94% were willing to pay between 75p and £2.00 per pupil per year for such a service.

An equivalent sports search programmewas successfully piloted by SportEngland from September 2001 to July2002 with over 40 secondary schoolsand over 1500 pupils in 3 differentparts of the UK.


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An experienced managementteam, who have already investedin the early development of thecompany, has now beenassembled and plans to launchsports search in secondaryschools in the Autumn of 2005.

sports hub – the people

Sitting (Left to Right)Guy Rees - Managing DirectorAlan Lovell - Chairman

Standing (Left to Right)Gavin Kaye - Financial DirectorNick Prichard - Sales & Marketing DirectorWill Wesson - Non Exec Director

Not picturedPaul Miller - Technology DirectorRichard Budgett - Medical Director


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Guy Rees – Managing Director

Huge commercial experience in seeking to encourage active participationin sport and exercise. A former member of the British Rowing team.

Alan Lovell – Chairman

Currently Chief Executive of Jarvis plc and formerly Chief Executive ofDunlop Slazenger. A former world champion in real tennis.

Gavin Kaye – Financial Director

Ex CEO of Health Media and Supporta PLC. Presently a Director of FMCBCorporate Finance. Passionate Arsenal supporter – but we do not holdthat against him.



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Nick Prichard – Sales & Marketing Director

20 year sales/marketing career at both agency and client. A qualified secondary school teacher. Former first classrugby player, now involved in local sports administration.Completed 3 marathons.

Will Wesson – Non Exec Director

A former teacher, HR Director of Costain Group PLC andCEO of The Whitehall and Industry Group. A soccer Blue,Will is currently training to complete a sub 3 hour marathon.

Paul Miller – Technology Director

Former Managing Director of Miller Starr Ltd, the marketingdatabase division of Interpublic. Marathon runner.

Dr Richard Budgett (OBE) – Medical Director

Currently Director of Medical Services for the BritishOlympic Association. Olympic Gold medalist in the coxedfour, Los Angeles 1984.



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Secondary schools• Approx 4,500 Secondary schools with 3.3 million pupils

Primary schools• Approx 20,500 Primary schools with over 4 million pupils

Private schools• Approx 2,300 Independent schools with 500,000 pupils

Colleges and Universities• Approx 250 Colleges and Universities.

Total pupils in further education is 2.6 million

Youth Clubs/organisations

• Approx 160 organisations with 500,000 members

Government bodies

• NHS staff – 882,000 work in the NHS

• Armed Forces – 300,000 personnel in the Army, Navy and Air Force

• Police – 138,000 in Police force in England and Wales

• Prison Service – Prison population is 71,000

• Local authority/council staff – employ over 2 million

• Civil Service -– there are approximately 500,000 civil servants

In addition, significant markets can be developed in the following sectors

• Major Blue Chip Companies

• NHS referrals

• Private individuals

• Private sports clubs

There are multiple audiences for sports hub.These include…

market potential


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• Licences to institutions / corporates

• Individual memberships

• Online advertising

• Sponsorship

• Online e commerce

• Government / European grants for Healthier lifestyle initiatives

• International expansion

• Data capture and resale

sports hub will have multiplerevenue streams.

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In addition to schools we will also provide this service in collegesand community centres, at the workplace, doctors waiting roomand every NHS trust in the country.

Our vision is to see Britain active with increased levels of sportingparticipation leading to a healthier nation by 2012.

the sports hub visionEveryone has untapped talent. sports searchwill help identify that talent and the sports hubportal will then continue to encourage it.


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, MoorLane, Staines, Middlesex, TW18 4BB. www.sportshub.co.uk

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key contacts

Guy Rees, Managing Director: [email protected] Kaye, Financial Director: [email protected] Prichard, Sales & Marketing Director: [email protected]

For all investment information, please contact Phillip Ellis at FMCB on 020 7405 2626.

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