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Details
- LEVEL. Beginners
- LOCATION. The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Jordan Well, Coventry
Costs
Action Planning for Your Arts Business
26 June 2007
CLOSED
Course Details
An entry level and user-friendly introduction to the concept of business planning. This course will start with your vision of where you want your business to go, and help you work through what you need to do to get there, what problems you may encounter on the way, and what resources you will need.
Who is it for?
The course is designed for individual sole trader artists and small arts organisations who are either in the early stages of establishing a business or have not previously completed a business plan of any kind.
Outline
Using a range of teaching methods and media, including information materials, group work, discussion and hands-on exercises, the course will cover:
- Scenario imagining - where will you/the business be in five years time? Where do you want to be? Where do you not want to be?
- Looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the business, and the opportunities and threats around it
- What risks will you take? What can you do to minimise them?
- Short-term budgeting and long term resource planning - what is needed and how to get it.
- Costing your time, setting a day rate, budgeting and quoting for work
- Keeping accounts and other records to get the information you need on your activities
- Employing others / working with others. Possible pitfalls and things to bear in mind.
- Long and short-term planning
At the end of the day participants will have greater confidence in running their business and a clear vision of where it is going. They will have a detailed and practical plan that they can start to use immediately. It will also provide a base that can be built on over time to develop a full-scale business plan.