RE: UKIS & GUSC Discussions/Research20 Apr 2015 16:57
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GUSC
I met with Tony Humphreys the NED.
Basically, They are concentrating on developing and maximising their investment in Soortsdata Ltd and providing all the support needed to make sure that this investment is successful.
The first product that Sportsdata have available is 'Skills2Achieve' which was launched a few months back (Feb 2014).
The main thing here is the connection that Sportsdata have through the Youth Sports Trust, This is opening doors for them all over the place starting with Primary Schools - Therefore, the first target market is primary schools - up to 22,000 of them!
They are already having some decent success. In Fab 2014, (in GUSC's RNS), they announce that 40 schools had already signed up and were fully paid. They also stated that a further 160 had signed agreements to buy, so one assumes that the majority if not all completed on this commitment. That's 200 schools already or just under 1%. And remember that was back in Feb 2014. In the RNS released back in Feb 2014, GUSC say that this was their target and yet in that same RNS the board of GUSC believed that this would be achieved by the start of the Summer term (ie. by now). Clearly since then 2 months have passed and one assumes that word of mouth has got out, with the Youth Sports Trust promoting it too, that more schools would have signed up.
Now, why would schools sign up? The following is taken from their sales brochure on the product but not directly quoted .... It means that the schools should they subscribe to Skills2Achieve (the main Sports data product at the mo), then its in their interest as it supports OFSTED judgements around 'Health and Well Being, Behaviour and personal, social and cultural moral development'. Their are other USP's too including the product is set against the National Curriculum for PE as well as it provides a clear framework for PE assessment without levels and allows tracking and recording of sporting achievements for each and every pupil.