Courses and Seminars
Our courses and seminars are run by experienced facilitators with expertise in the subject area. Within a structured and supportive learning environment, the overall approach includes:
- Knowledge: techniques, models and ideas presented by the trainer
- Skills development through active participation and exercises
- Peer learning and interaction through sharing of ideas and experiences
- Materials to support the learning and to take away for future reference
- Action planning to apply the learning back at the workplace
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Working with Young People
Assertiveness At Work
Personal Effectiveness
To increase the confidence and develop the skills to act more assertively.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Audience Development
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
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Business Planning for the Future
Careers and Business Development
To inspire those who are preparing a plan and for those who would like to improve their skills. The course will cover the benefits of planning, introduce the main elements of a plan, and suggest ways of getting started. The trainer will also cover the financial tools required to support a successful business plan.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Child Protection and Safeguarding
Working with Young People
This course provides an introduction to safeguarding and child protection practices within the performing arts. The course will introduce Arts Council England’s document Keeping Arts Safe and provide preliminary guidance on the development of appropriate policies and procedures.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Coaching and Mentoring Skills
Leadership
This course is for managers responsible for achieving results through and with teams and individuals.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Creating a Green Action Plan
Leadership
To prepare your organisation for the challenges it will face over the next ten
years: climate change, peak oil, global economics and population growth
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Creating Successful Grant Applications
Funding
This course will develop your skills in writing successful funding applications, focusing mainly on statutory funding and trusts and foundations. You will be given the opportunity to find solutions to the particular issues that your organisation faces in presenting its work to funders. You will also explore techniques in presenting your organisations work and writing applications that will catch the attention of funders and increase your chances of success.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Delivering Workshops and Managing Projects
Working with Young People
To give participants a practical and specific insight into how an established company plans and delivers workshops for young people, both inside and outside the school environment, and how projects are negotiated, supported and evaluated. This is an opportunity to either review existing skills and practices or create a foundation for future work.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Effective Front of House Management
Communication and Marketing
This course aims to equip participants with the skills to create a consistently excellent audience experience and a productive front of house team.
Managing your front of house team is becoming an increasingly demanding role for performing arts organisations, particularly those seeking to welcome new audiences. Front of house managers and duty managers often have to lead a diverse range of staff dealing with stressful situations, while at the same time ensuring the team stay motivated, making a positive impact on the audience.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Effective Fundraising
Funding
To build participants confidence in the value of the work of their organisations and to enable them to communicate that value effectively to potential funding partners. This course will concentrate on trusts, foundations and statutory (e.g. government and arts funding bodies) sources, but will also explore corporate (business) partnerships.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
End of Year Accounts
Finance
Using Accounts and Accountants
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Essentials of Employment Law
Legal
Employment Law is an area of frequent change. It is affected by changes in UK law, in EU law and by judgments in tribunal and court cases. This seminar will provide an introduction to the many areas that you need to know about as soon as you have people working for you.
Members price: £50.00+VAT
Non members price: £80.00+VAT
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.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Financial Management
Finance
To demystify accounting procedures and jargon, giving participants the understanding to use their own financial systems, for planning and reporting, with more confidence.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Health and Safety
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.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
How to Interview Effectively
Personal Effectiveness
This course provides an opportunity to develop understanding and skills in the interview process. It will help you develop strategies and techniques whether you are interviewing people or being interviewed for work opportunities.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
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.
Members price: £30.00+VAT
Non members price: £80.00+VAT
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.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Introduction to Press Relations
Communication and Marketing
To introduce busy arts administrators to the basic principles of Press and Media relations and to provide tips on how to maximise opportunities for free press publicity and how to avoid getting a “bad press”.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Leading with an Open Mind
Leadership
This course will explore and explain how learning, self-knowledge, not-knowing, open-mindedness, new ways of thinking, dialogue and diversity all play a part in successful leadership and management.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Managing People: 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.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Managing Stress in your Organisation
Personal Effectiveness
This course provides an opportunity to learn about how stress affects us, to review your own stress levels and to develop strategies to ensure that stress doesn’t take over.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
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.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Maximising your Career
Careers and Business Development
To equip you with the tools and techniques to set your career goals and establish the planning process for career progression.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Motivation and Team-building Skills
Management - People
This course provides an introduction to how people need to work more co-operatively and effectively in teams or groups so their organisations can achieve more successful outcomes.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
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.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Networking and Presenting Yourself
Personal Effectiveness
Through a range of engaging, participative sessions to explore the elusive skills and techniques that help to build effective networks, make lasting contacts and leave people with a friendly but professional impression.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
New to Management
Management - People
To become more equipped to fulfil the role of manager in ways that enable us and those around us to flourish.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Passport to International Touring
Producing and Touring
Making the most of touring abroad
A two-day London-based course
Members price: £250.00+VAT
Non members price: £300.00+VAT
Passport to International Touring
Producing and Touring
Making the most of touring abroad
A two-day London-based course
Members price: £250.00+VAT
Non members price: £350.00+VAT
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.
Members price: £50.00+VAT
Non members price: £80.00+VAT
Project Budgeting
Finance
The workshop aims to enable participants to become more confident and skilled in using budgets to achieve their project’s objectives.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Project Management
Personal Effectiveness
To enable participants to develop a framework, and acquire a range of tools, for managing the life cycle of a project.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
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.
Members price: £50.00+VAT
Non members price: £80.00+VAT
Site Specific Performance: Getting Out There
Producing and Touring
This course is designed to give performing arts professionals interested in site specific performance an opportunity to learn how to plan for this work, talk through project ideas and explore the pleasures and the pitfalls.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
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.
Members price: £75.00+VAT
Non members price: £75.00+VAT
Strategic Planning
Leadership
Strategy and thinking strategically are terms often used by those looking to really move their organisation forward but the reality is that most senior management time and energy gets drawn into reactive decision making and operational matters. This course will equip participants with a real understanding of the nature of strategy and provide a framework of techniques for forming and delivering strategic plans that make a positive difference.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Taking and Writing Minutes
Personal Effectiveness
This course provides an opportunity to learn how to take and write up both formal and informal minutes; what to include and leave out; and how to work with the Chair to ensure minutes are accurate
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Tax, NI and VAT
Finance
To discuss tax and National Insurance issues as they relate to employers within the performing arts.
Members price: £50.00+VAT
Non members price: £80.00+VAT
Tour Booking
Producing and Touring
To help participants develop and establish good working practices and professional standards when booking tours in the UK.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Transform your Meetings
Leadership
To encourage senior arts people to bring creative leadership into the meetings and conferences for which they are responsible.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Using IT to engage with your audience
Communication and Marketing
To identify the online resources and systems available to assist organisations seeking to engage with their audience.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Using the 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.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Using the Media for Maximum Impact
Communication and Marketing
Make the most of Radio and Television opportunities
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Valuing Diversity
Leadership
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Venue and Company Relations
Communication and Marketing
To provide an opportunity for production companies and venues to explore the challenges and practicalities of booking tours and identify useful communication techniques to build effective working relationships.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
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.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT
Working on Co-Productions
Producing and Touring
To consider the elements - artistic and administrative - needed for a successful co-production.
Members price: £100.00+VAT
Non members price: £160.00+VAT