Face-to-Face Courses
Starting Your Creative Career is a 5 week course designed to help young creatives build confidence and essential employability skills focussed in the BCP / Dorset area.
Each week we cover
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Portfolio review, skills audit, influences and goals
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Creative roles, pathways, niches and local opportunities
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How to understand a brief, generate ideas, and present concepts
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Software, planning, file management and time-management basics
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What a strong starter portfolio looks like and how to prepare for real work
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Learners will leave with a deeper understanding of the local creative sector, an understanding of what employers are looking for and a range of time-management and an individual action plan on their next steps towards work.
Wednesday
25th Feb 2026
Creative freelancing is a 5 week course to help get young people set up as self-employed, thinking about budgeting and finances and prepare to find their first clients.
The five weeks will be:
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Where work comes from, approaching clients and starting small
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Day rates, quotes, invoices, taxes and simple bookkeeping
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Communicating with clients, managing expectations, and setting boundaries
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Timelines, project stages, contracts, copyright and insurance
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Presenting work, handling revisions, invoicing and collecting testimonials
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Learners will leave with a clearer focus on how to find clients and how to reach out to them, as well as having a toolkit of invoice, contracts and insurance documents ready to use on their first creative comissions.
Wednesday
4th March 2026
