The Club Hub Podcast

Mum of 3 (if you include the dog) and a primary school teacher with over a decade of teaching experience. Plans to open The Little Play Village started in early 2020 while on maternity leave, indoors during the lock down. She rapidly turned to role play as a means to engage and entertain her toddler, realising how much she had always loved creating play set ups for him. She began to dream of running her own role play village and spent hours researching how she could make it a reality. With the support of her family and close friends, The Little Play Village was born. https://thelittleplayvillage.co.uk/ This episode is Sponsored by Cerys Keneally who helps children's activity & service providers to approach schools & nurseries without cold calling, so they can grow their business with confidence and have a bigger impact on children's lives. You can get in touch with Cerys via her website  https://ceryskeneally.com/

Languages have always been her passion and, after completing her Spanish Degree she went on to spend two years in Santander where she taught English to all ages. Lucy then came back to the Midlands to study for her PGCE and went on to teach Spanish, French (as well as a little Italian!) in schools for many years. https://www.bilinguasing.com/find-a-class/birmingham-south/ This episode is Sponsored by Cerys Keneally who helps children's activity & service providers to approach schools & nurseries without cold calling, so they can grow their business with confidence and have a bigger impact on children's lives. You can get in touch with Cerys via her website  https://ceryskeneally.com/

Music Squad does things differently and they’re on a mission to make music making accessible and joyful for every child. From their ground-breaking books, fresh approach and their obsession with music making, they are constantly trying to find more ways to make learning an instrument as fun and joyful as it should be. https://www.musicsquad.co.uk/ This episode is Sponsored by Cerys Keneally who helps children's activity & service providers to approach schools & nurseries without cold calling, so they can grow their business with confidence and have a bigger impact on children's lives. You can get in touch with Cerys via her website  https://ceryskeneally.com/

Cerys Keneally has combined 20 years of varied experiences as a primary school teacher & subject co-ordinator, children's dance company owner and senior business coach in the activity & leisure sector to help 100s of children's activity providers grow their businesses with confidence through her free challenges, group programmes and 1-1 work. https://ceryskeneally.com/

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠"Samantha Dholakia is an international trainer and specialist in behaviour and emotional regulation, with nearly 20 years of experience in education. She works closely with teachers and parents, supporting positive behaviour management and emotional well-being in children. As the creator of The Behaviour Balance System™ and The Behaviour Bank™, Samantha has developed a holistic, inclusive, and research-backed approach that connects homes with educational and childcare settings.Founder of SPD Training and Consultancy (formerly SPD Tuition and Coaching Ltd), Samantha is committed to driving innovation in education. SPD equips educators, carers, and families with the tools to foster positive behaviours and emotional well-being in children. Focused on transforming behaviour management, the organisation works to improve outcomes across all stages of development, beginning with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)."spdtuitionandcoaching.co.uk

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠"With over 13 years experience in working with children, Bradley has a wealth of knowledge and expertise to share in developing high quality childcare provisions.Bradley started his career as a nursery nurse in a school before progressing to working in the PVI (private, voluntary and independent) sector and then climbing into senior management roles. In this time, Bradley has also worked with children in the USA and Australia.Bradley really enjoys being a part of organisations which positively shape the future for childcare practices and equally loves spending time with children or training staff.Outside of work Bradey enjoys travelling, being in nature and listening to music." https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-flavien-134903133/

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠"At Little Starts Gift Cards, we want to help people gift experiences to little ones that nurture creativity, curiosity and confidence. We provide parents and caregivers with easy access to a wide range of enriching activities, classes and experiences, empowering them to support their child’s development through play and exploration. http://www.littlestartsgiftcards.com/"

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠Esther Roche is a mum of five and the founder of Deroiste Natural Beauty, an award-winning inclusive skincare brand for problem skin. With over 20 years in dental-related fields, she also founded a leading dental nurse training centre. As host of “The Mum CEO Podcast” and a mentor, Esther balances motherhood, community leadership, and entrepreneurship, inspiring others with her resilience and dedication to helping people reach their potential.deroistenaturalbeauty.com

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠Nicole is The Friendly SEND Advisor, a passionate advocate, best-selling author, and expert in sensory processing and neurodiversity. Through her consultancy, she supports children’s activity providers and educators in creating inclusive, sensory-friendly environments, ensuring all children can thrive.With over a decade of teaching experience, Nicole shifted to full-time advocacy after her autistic son was diagnosed with epilepsy. Her personal journey led her to develop resources to support neurodivergent children. She also hosts the Conversations with a SEND Mum podcast, offering support and insights to parents navigating special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).nicolebateman.co.uk

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠Tamara's been on both sides of the children’s activities industry – as a franchisee and leading the marketing for a franchise.Dot & Stripe is an award-winning marketing consultancy for children’s activities providers - providing franchisors, franchisees and independent businesses with the expertise, support, and accountability to nail down the best marketing strategies.dotstripe.co.uk/ 

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠"At Level Up, we are passionate about building partnerships and helping others to achieve their dreams and goals through business and, specifically, franchising. We believe that business is an excellent vehicle for making a real difference in the world. And when you focus on making a difference, success follows. We feel strongly that business can create a real sense of purpose beyond just profit and that people are the most important part of any business." https://www.levelupbcc.com/

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/Stacey Cann is a leading UK franchise strategist as well as Managing Director for national franchise, Daisy First Aid.She has helped to grow Daisy First Aid to 70 franchises nationwide and loves to support other business owners in franchising and growing their businesses.Daisy First Aid believes that every children’s activity provider should have access to great quality, affordable paediatric first aid training.If a child has an accident or becomes poorly in a class we want both the activity provider and the carer to feel confident that the child is given the best care before medical professionals take over.We are so proud to yet again sponsor these amazing awards and meet so many incredible businesses.www.daisyfirstaid.com/

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠At KoffeeKlatch, we help you protect your business with clear, practical contracts and GDPR-compliant processes. Led by Annabel Kaye, who has over 45 years of experience supporting small businesses, we provide:Contracts designed for child-centred businessesEasy-to-follow GDPR training onlineVideo and group support to help you stay on trackOur partnership with Club Hub gives you access to affordable documents and support, so you can protect your business and share data confidently and compliantly.www.koffeeklatch.co.uk

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/Morton Michel has been working with and supporting the Children’s Activities sector for nearly fifty years so we fully understand the importance that children’s activity providers bring to a child’s learning and development. Our specialist Children’s Activity policy can be tailored to meet individual requirements and includes a wide range of cover, as well as a package of additional benefits designed to support you and your business.www.mortonmichel.com/childrens-activity-providers-insurance

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠Shoo Social Media helps ambitious businesses build simple, effective social media marketing systems to grow their brand and attract more customers online.We take a consultative approach tailored to each client’s needs, offering support through training, strategy development, or hands-on implementation to make social media work for your business.www.shoosocialmedia.co.uk

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/⁠Designed with children’s activity providers in mind, Book That In is the online booking system that gives you powerful booking functionality at small business prices, so you can really compete with the big boys. Dedicated to being the best booking system in the UK at helping you to grow, the intuitive and easy-to-use platform looks great on your website, is hugely flexible, and helps you to attract new customers.Learn more and book a demo at bookthatin.com – quote CLUBHUB to claim a free done-for-you migration service worth £99.

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/Inspired by his experiences with local community groups (Amateur Dramatics & Choir), Daniel started Conveenie - an online marketplace for community-based venue hire, bringing people together in local spaces — to connect, collaborate, support, learn and grow. Everything they do is designed to make local communities work for everyone – They believe that local communities work best when everyone pulls together.Conveenie makes community space hire as simple as a few clicks. Whether you run a local hall or need a venue for your dance classes, Conveenie brings hosts and guests together.For venue owners, Conveenie provides a simple yet powerful online platform to manage space, advertise and generate additional revenue. For those seeking local spaces for clubs and events, Conveenie offers an efficient search and booking system that takes the hassle out of finding, reserving, and paying for community-based spaces.We are honoured to sponsor the award for a charity, social enterprise, or non-profit business in the kids activities industry. Thank you for your incredibly valuable contributions to the community, and best of luck!www.conveenie.com Connecting communities in the local spaces that matter most.

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/Hello, my name is Catherine and I am the creator and franchisor of Popcat’s Music Time Ltd. I am a fully qualified and experienced primary school teacher and I have spent many years teaching from foundation through to year 6. I have continued to tutor primary school children both indivually and in groups since leaving teaching.I have always been passionate about children learning through music and having fun, and after carefully planning Popcat’s for three years I finally decided to take the plunge of a career change in 2014. The satisfaction of knowing that so many little ones enjoy coming to Popcat’s classes week after week tells me that I made the right career choice.www.popcats.co.uk/

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. ⁠https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/LoveScience brings hands-on, exciting, science activities to Early Years and primary-aged children. With a firm belief in ‘practical science for primary kids,’ their sessions break down barriers to learning by making science accessible to all, regardless of literacy level.Through engaging experiments, children explore scientific concepts in a way that encourages curiosity, creativity, and independent thinking. LoveScience also champions ‘safe failing’—a vital part of learning that builds resilience and confidence, empowering children to experiment, adapt, and discover for themselves.www.lovescience.co.uk

Welcome to Season 5 of the Club Hub Podcast – your behind-the-scenes pass to the 2025 Club Hub Event and Awards! This season, we're sitting down with our incredible sponsors and judges to uncover what goes into supporting and recognising the UK’s best children’s activity providers. From inspiring stories to expert insights, discover why the Club Hub community continues to grow and thrive year after year. https://clubhubuk.co.uk/club-hub-event-2025/Cerys Keneally is a TEDx speaker, podcaster and author who delivers award-winning training for the children’s activity sector.  Since starting the Approaching Schools Challenge in 2019, she has helped over 5,000 providers to get their business into schools and nurseries for free.  Cerys is the proud creator of the CPD accredited “Approaching Schools Academy” where she has supported hundreds of providers to grow profitable businesses by working with schools and nurseries. She has also worked privately with over 40 leading franchise brands to upskill their networks. Once a shy child who gained her confidence from extra-curricular activities, Cerys is passionate about building creative confidence with the providers she works with and all the children they work with.Find out more and download your free Approaching Schools & Nurseries Workbook at www.ceryskeneally.com