Creative Industries Trafford and Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair are delighted to present a series of creative business development events with experienced business trainer and coach Caroline Jackman for a programme of events to kick start your creative practice.
These sessions are for anyone, including recent graduates, who is interested in setting up a new creative business or establishing a career in the arts.
The training is a mix of resources, questions, workshops online and in person networking. We expect participants to use their own dedicated learning time outside of the two workshops and creative network day to build their knowledge and implement a plan for their creative business.
We recommend setting aside on average three hours per week to your learning. You will be provided with a programme outline to guide you.
1. Case studies provided by pre-recorded interviews*
2. Workshop (online) ‘Visioning a creative business’ on 27th June 10am – 12.30pm
3. Creative Network day (in person) 18th July, Manchester
4. A step by step written programme that will include:
a. Top tips on marketing
b. Top tips on pricing products
c. Top tips on selling
d. Top tips on building a business plan
e. Top tips on funding and financial advice
5. Workshop (online) on 15th September 10 – 12.30pm - Reflections & Creative Planning
*Please note, many of the resources come from the craft sector, though advice is transferable to all creative industry sectors.
Once signed up, you will be issued a programme pack that will detail links and resources and a pretraining questionnaire.
We invite all of those who sign up to complete this questionnaire to help the trainer Caroline Jackman make the training as bespoke as possible guided by your answers.
Visioning: A Creative Business Workshop
Tickets: £5 Book here or call 0161 912 5616.
You can also choose to pay for all three sessions with our Creative Visioning Bundle option.
A practical workshop to help you visualise your creative business. This 2 & ½ hour workshop will be conducted online via Zoom. We ask participants to bring pen & paper or whatever you use to create notes.
This practical workshop will take you through the steps on:
1. How to set up a business
2. How to visualise your brand values
3. How to market your brand
4. How to price your products
5. How to plan and set achievable goals.
You will take away a set of actions that will be discussed at the Creative Network day on 18 July.
A Zoom link for the session will be sent at least 24 hours ahead of the event.
About the Trainer
As a business consultant, coach and trainer for the creative industries, Caroline has over 20 years’ working with national charities, government agencies, academic institutions, galleries and practitioners.
Caroline has led UK and international projects.
As Head of Craft Business Skills for Crafts Council for seven years, Caroline led business training programmes for craft businesses, championing the growth of the market for craft on the Creative Industries Trade and Investment Board.
Caroline is a specialist in art, craft & design exporting. Building on her strong relationship with Department for Business and Trade, Caroline produced a UK International Export Toolkit and Temporary Export Guide for the Crafts Council; led trade missions to Paris and Creative Europe funded projects including Crafting Europe trade schemes and business training programmes.
Caroline is a Trustee for New Ashgate Gallery, Mentor for Arts Emergency and an Advisor for Radcliffe Trust.
RUNNING TIMES
150 minutes, via ZOOM