Successful Co-Productions
Producing and Touring
To consider the elements - artistic and administrative - needed for a successful co-production.

ITC/Equity Contract
Legal
To give participants the tools to successfully manage a company of performers using the ITC/Equity agreement; to ensure practical understanding of the contract’s terms and conditions and encourage good management practice in implementing them.

Recruiting and Inducting New Board Members
Leadership
To highlight best practice in inducting new board members. You will also explore how to drive your mission strategically and productively with your board.

Finance for Board Members
Leadership
To provide an overview of basic financial and accounting terminology, and a guide to the integrated nature of financial statements for new and potential Board members.

Working as a Freelance Producer
Careers and Business Development
This course provides an overview of the Producers’ role within performing arts. Participants will explore the several different models of working as a producer, through looking at the advantages and potential pitfalls of each.

Incorporation & Charitable Status
Legal
To help performing arts organisations to understand the legal issues involved in running a limited company and in being a registered charity and, where appropriate, to decide how to structure their own organisation.

Tax, NI and VAT
Finance
To discuss tax and National Insurance issues as they relate to employers within the performing arts.

Promoting and Presenting Young People's Theatre
Working with Young People
To provide a practical and clear insight into, developing and maintaining a family and young people’s audience within a venue.

Conflict Resolution
Personal Effectiveness
This course provides a creative opportunity to enhance your self-awareness. You will explore conflict resolution in a supportive and non-confrontational manner, leaving you with useful action points to take away.

Producing and Touring
Producing and Touring
To provide an opportunity for producers and administrators to explore the challenges and practicalities in touring a production from the initial stages.

Introduction to Arts Marketing
Communication and Marketing
To introduce participants to the basics of good marketing practice and to help you get started, review current practice, refresh skills and build confidence.

Managing Time and Tasks
Personal Effectiveness
To provide time away from the usual work environment to allow participants to explore ways of managing competing work priorities more effectively by using time as a tool.

Managing Change
Leadership
The only constant we will encounter throughout our life is change. As a result, how we deal with and manage change will directly affect the way we deliver our aims and objectives, both personal and professional.

This course will provide an overview of how change works and consequently how we can best manage the process, equipping participants with tips and tools to meet the challenges that the process of change presents.

Personnel Systems and Practice
Management - People
To develop an understanding of best practices for people management, with a particular focus on your responsibilities, structures and systems.

Risk Management
Management - Resources
To help participant’s manage health and safety effectively by completing ‘suitable and sufficient’ Risk Assessments. The benefits of managing health and safety are explored by looking at real issues and examining the regulations that relate to them.

Rural Touring
Producing and Touring
To enable participants to explore the artistic challenges and practicalities of mounting a rural tour.

Promoting your work widely
Communication and Marketing
If you are seeking to develop new audiences and want to explore the different means of retaining your current audience, this course provides practical tips to help you engage with various groups to promote your work

IT for Performing Arts Organisations
Management - Resources
To enable Performing Arts companies to use IT to connect with their audience and run an efficient business.

Negotiations & Contracts
Legal
This one day course will be relevant to any one who has to negotiate contracts in their work. Though it starts with basic principles, it would be useful to anyone wishing to refresh their knowledge and improve their negotiating skills.

Starting a Performing Arts Company
Careers and Business Development
To provide an overview of the different management areas that needs to be addressed in setting up and running a performing arts company.

Tour Booking
Producing and Touring
To help participants develop and establish good working practices and professional standards when booking tours in the UK.

Tax, NI and VAT
Finance
To discuss tax and National Insurance issues as they relate to employers within the performing arts.

Incorporation & Charitable Status
Legal
To help performing arts organisations to understand the legal issues involved in running a limited company and in being a registered charity and, where appropriate, to decide how to structure their own organisation.