10 Tools & Tips to Boost your Financial Management

Overview:

This four-hour session condenses 21 years of frontline money management — the good times, the bad times, and everything in between — into a ten-stage roadmap, designed to help you navigate the sometimes baffling, sometimes overwhelming landscape of creative industry finances with more confidence.

During the session, you will be guided through a series of practical approaches, simple strategies and gentle provocations — all with the aim of empowering you to create, adapt, and make good use of financial processes that suit your needs and circumstances.

By the end of the session, you’ll feel less daunted by your financial responsibilities, and better able to stop them being a drain on your time and resources — especially if you’re not getting paid to deal with finances in the first place.

 Suitable For:

Anyone involved with the financial management of their own work, or the work of their organisation, or someone else’s organisation, such as…

• Freelancers trying to get everything done with no team, or just a tiny team, to share the burden;

• Artistic Directors doubling as their own General Managers, without really knowing how to carry out the demands of that role;

• Leaders required to oversee their organisation’s financial matters, including reporting to colleagues, Boards and stakeholders, but who may not always feel they know what they’re talking about;

• Directors and Trustees with statutory responsibilities to uphold, who want to support their executive team (and each other) as well as they possibly can;

• Anyone who can’t afford to bring in regular finance support, but who also can’t afford to spend the majority of their own time on administration;

• Anyone who can afford that support — or who might be the person providing that support — and wanting to make that process as helpful and efficient as possible;

• Anyone who panics everybody else knows more about financial management than they do — and worries they’re doing a worse job than everybody else is.

Approach:

The session itself combines the trainer’s presentation of a ten-point plan (including some screen-sharing of slides) with ring-fenced time at the end for participants’ questions and for discussion.

Philip Holyman

Philip Holyman is a writer of fiction, theatre, and more, as well as one of the Co-Directors of Birmingham-based company Little Earthquake. He is a former Chair of the John Feeney Charitable Trust, and a former Trustee of National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF). Alongside 21 years of admin for Little Earthquake, Philip also has extensive experience at supporting freelancers, as well as executive teams and Board members in other organisations, to feel more confident about their own financial management.

Prices:

Special Offer for Non-Members: Join ITC within 30 days after attending this training course and receive £100 + VAT off your first year of membership.

Date and Time:

18th November 2026, 10:00am – 2:00pm

 Location: This course will take place Online

Please get in touch with us to discuss reasonable adjustments as far in advance as possible.

Bookings are confirmed upon receipt of the course fee. Due to limited availability, placement on the course is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Unpaid reservations may be cancelled to accommodate others. Please look at our complete booking terms and conditions and our cancellation policy.