'Finance for Creatives' Workshop
'Finance for Creatives' is a new workshop tailor-made for creative entrepreneurs.
The overall objective of the workshop is to help people whose main strengths are in creativity rather than accountancy to understand and use the most important financial concepts so that they can manage their enterprises even more successfully.
The workshop is ideal for people involved in creative and cultural enterprises who do not have a background in finance or accountancy but need or want to learn the basic concepts and understand the jargon in order to be able to manage their own enterprise more successfully.
'Finance for Creatives' workshop is included in the Creative Advantage Programme of workshops as 'Creative Finance'.
What participants say about the 'Finance for Creatives' workshop:
“I had much more fun than I thought possible at a finance workshop.”
Alke Groppel-Wegener. Freelance Artist.
“Demystified all the jargon and showed the importance and usefulness of different financial forms etc !! Thanks !”
Adelle Robinson. Community Arts North West (CAN)
“The workshop emphasised the importance of calculations and budgeting. It made balance sheets and cashflow charts more understandable. It demonstrated it is possible to do your own accounts.”
Sophiana Rhoden. Afrocats
“Very well presented and planned. The level was just right.”
Daksha Patel. Shisha: The International Agency for contemporary South Asian crafts and visual arts.
“I enjoyed it. It went at the right pace.”
Rebecca McKnight. Cornerhouse
“The workshop was at a good level and kept everyone with it. Made it interesting enough to forget my hangover ! I felt that the difficult areas were understood and our fears as professionals were catered for.”
Sophie Mackreth. Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
“Very accessible and informative.”
Tess Hills. Curious Cargo
“Excellent. I finally am beginning to feel I understand a bit about how to keep my books. Clarified a great deal and got rid of my fear of accounts.
Joe Harrison. Join the Noise
“Good accessible way of addressing principles which are otherwise quite daunting”
Dan Bell
“Very good workshop. Excellent delivery, easy to follow and understand. Tailor-made for creatives”
Ottilia. Ottilia Music Management
“Good use of the example organisation and developing it to introduce ideas and tie them together.
Working in groups was very helpful in terms of re-iterating and explaining points for the benefit of the rest of the team. And also for exploring concepts and playing with ideas.”
Paul Williams.
“Very good presentation of accountancy and use of teamwork. Thanks.”
Claire Ferguson. Textured Ceramics
“I thought it was great that we were trying to make sense of the information in the groups rather than just listening to a lecture.”
Alke Groppel-Wegener. Freelance Artist.
“Very informative. Helped clear up a few misconceptions / misunderstandings about financial matters.”
Jim Loughran. GMT Imaging
“Good technique. Good content”
A J Holland. Double Dutch Arts
“I found the workshop very thorough and useful in terms of increasing my understanding of basic financial terms. I also feel more confident about embarking on my own small business.”
Josam Coker
