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Weston College is hosting a Media Production, Games and Animation Employer Advisory Board on Wednesday, 26th November 2025 at St George’s, Bristol.

It’s designed to bring together employers and educators from across the region to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the creative industries, particularly in terms of skills, future talent, and curriculum development.

Organised by the The Natural History Consortium, #Communicate2025 is coming up on 25-27th November across Manchester, London, Bristol and online. It’s for anyone involved or interested in improving communications around #nature, and that includes #storytellers #creatives and #content makers.

It’s a great place for cross-sector networking and collaborations, we share so many common challenges for example how best to reach our target audiences, to shift behaviour and create a positive impact. Other organisations who attend include Nature related NGOs, government agencies, universities and businesses who either already work with creatives or are keen to to help get their messages out in novel and engaging ways.

Prices: 1 day/in person tickets are £102 inc VAT, online tickets are £30 inc VAT for all 3 days.
*Please note all our bursary tickets have been allocated now but we aim to offer these every year going forwards.)

Charity Freelancers Bristol would love to welcome local charity freelancers to our second meet-up. Join us for networking and co-working on Wednesday 1st October at the Watershed, 10am-1pm.

Charity Freelancers Bristol is a newly-formed group that aims to bring together charity professionals from across Bristol and the surrounding area. We meet monthly to provide a relaxed and informal space for charity consultants to meet others, share experiences and tips, and have opportunities for work referrals and collaborations.

If you would like to attend the event on October 1st and/or join our WhatsApp or Facebook groups then please email Rosia Curtis or Jess Augarde: [email protected]; [email protected]

This special screening of GAME will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s director John Minton, producer & co-writer Geoff Barrow, and actors Jason Williamson and Marc Bessant.

Resource Management is a unique discipline, but is often misunderstood, undervalued and treated as little, or nothing, more than human tetris. Our workshop focuses on how resource management is a strategic role crucial to the overall operations and health of a business.

You’ll learn from real life case studies from our trainer’s extensive experience, and you’ll have the chance to discuss your own take on these challenges. You’ll leave with the knowledge, commercial awareness, skills and confidence to practise strategic resource management that WILL add value.

What you’ll take away:

A clear understanding of resource management and the positive contribution it makes to your business.
How to resource plan 3-6 months ahead and align recruitment and staff development planning.
The skills and conﬁdence to manage conflicting resource requests and guide the decision-making process on priorities.
Tools and top tips to help you plan, evaluate and monitor resources in your business leading to continuous improvements.

Who should attend:

Operations directors who want to improve overall delivery and operational efficiency.
Finance directors looking to improve and protect profit margins and gain visibility of billing, cash flow and income recognition.
HR & recruitment managers looking to improve staff welfare and retention and to align recruitment, staff training and development plans to the project pipeline.
Resource managers, from those new to the role to those established in the job looking to heighten their commercial awareness.
Project managers who want to manage projects better and understand more about structured resource management

Workshop agenda:

Redefining resource management.
Value added resource management.
Common problems and how to deal with them.
Being a resource manager.
Tools of the trade / Finance.
Problem solving scenarios – exercises.

Next open workshop/s, run online:

Date: 10th February 2026

Length: 9.15 – 1pm online

Price: £345.60 pp for BCI Members, £495 pp for nonmembers

Trainer:

Jo Petroccia, Resource Management Consultant, Trainer and Mentor.

This comprehensive training is for individuals looking to enhance their project management skills beyond the fundamental level. It encompasses the techniques crucial to leading and attaining project success.

While project management methodologies, processes, and tools can be easily explained, executing a project can be challenging due to the human element involved.

To become a high-performing Project Manager, you must master leading and managing individuals and the various issues that may arise.

Adopting a proactive approach to project management from the outset can significantly reduce the risks and problems that commonly occur later in the project.

Our Advanced Project Management training course provides all the necessary tools to initiate and sustain a project for long-term success.

What you’ll take away:

An in-depth understanding of how to build your teams’ and clients’ roles and responsibilities on a project.
Advanced scoping techniques that significantly reduce scope creep.
Next-level project communications to move your team beyond the standard reporting and provide high-value reporting that has an impact.
How to seamlessly manage your budget by creating a Project Management, Account Management and Finance team communication triangle.
Maximise the value from mistakes made through an ‘always on’ improvement and project wash-up approach that transforms problems into opportunities.
How to shift from being reactive to proactive to stay ahead of project challenges.

Who should attend:

Senior Project Managers and Project Leads.
Account handlers responsible for project planning and delivery.
Project Managers with a minimum of 2 years’ experience looking to take a step up.

Workshop agenda:

What is advanced Project Management, and what is a high-performing Project Manager?
Developing roles and responsibilities for all project and team shapes.
Moving beyond the standard approach to scoping a project.
Advanced project communications to capture problems early.
The budget management triangle to stay in control of your finances.
Listen and learn: how to turn problems into opportunities and create a continuous learning approach to your projects.

Next open workshop/s, run online:

Date: 26th March

Length: Full Day 9.30 – 5pm

Price: £345.60 pp for BCI Members, £495 for nonmembers

In-house Workshop, run for your team and aligned to your challenges and objectives:

Dates: By arrangement

Price: £3,000 for up to 18 people

Trainer:

Ben Willmott, Head of Delivery, Trainer & Mentor.

What you’ll take away:

Techniques to move from account “manager” to a trusted advisor and strategic partner
How to assess where your client relationship is currently
An overview of useful tools for moving you up the relationship value chain
A model for focusing your mind on your client’s end goal, strategies for getting there and tactics that support that goal.

Who should attend:

Senior Account Managers
Account Directors
Business Directors

Why attend?:

Ensuring your account plans are fit for purpose
Assessing & measuring client relationships
Developing an annual & multi-year view with your clients

Next open workshop/s, run online:

Date: 10th March 2026

Length: 9.30 – 1pm online

Price: £276.50 pp for BCI members, £395 pp for nonmembers

In-house workshop, run for your team and aligned to your challenges and objectives:

Date: By arrangement

Price: £2,600 for up to 18 people

Trainer:

Polly Lygoe, Agency Director & Client Services Trainer

This one-day interactive workshop delivers really immersive training for anyone project managing marketing projects. Using our process framework, a real case study and project documentation, attendees complete exercises at each phase of the project cycle from scoping to evaluation.

This problem based learning is a great method for project management training. We present a problem that needs a resolution – a key skill for any Project Manager.

Attendees leave armed with new skills, feeling confident and ready to lead projects.

What you’ll take away:

How to effectively manage each stage of the project lifecycle.
Running a project kick off and setting your project up for success.
Project planning and assigning roles & responsibilities.
Keeping your project on track with detailed timelines.
Identifying and managing risk on your project.
Project scoping and writing a statement of work.
Agile vs Waterfall project process – which one is right for your project.
Wrapping up and running a project evaluation.

Who should attend:

Account handlers who are also responsible for project planning and delivery
Project Managers with less than 2 years experience
Resource Managers working alongside project managers
Creative Services managers responsible for project planning and delivery
Producers who are involved in project planning as well as delivery

Workshop agenda:

Introduction to training.
The project lifecycle & initiation stage.
Roles & responsibilities.
SWOT analysis.
The project plan.
Risk management.
Scope of work.
Agile vs Waterfall
Project wash up.

Next open workshop/s run online:

Date: 26th February

Length: Full Day 9.30 – 4:30pm

Price: £345.60 pp for BCI members, £495 pp for nonmembers

In-house Workshop, run for your team and aligned to your challenges and objectives:

Date: By arrangement

Price: £3,000 for up to 18 people

Trainer:

Ben Willmott, Head of Delivery, Trainer & Mentor.

Scope creep is the no.1 agency challenge.

It’s rife in our industry and has a negative impact on people, projects and profits.

From underpriced / over scoped projects, to seemingly innocent client requests that will ‘only take 10 mins’ scope creep creeps in.

In this workshop we look at typical scenarios that allow scope creep and how to approach these scenarios next time – from behavioural change and better processes.

The goal – let’s put scope creep on the scrap heap.

What you’ll take away:

An understanding of scope creep – the cumulative effect and impact
An understanding of when scope creeps in – so you recognise it next time
How to ask the right questions when your client requests a change of scope
How to confidently deal with team behaviours that encourage scope creep

Who should attend:

Account Managers, from AEs to BDs
Project Managers
Resource Managers
Operation Directors

Workshop agenda:

Scope creep, an overview
Scenarios that allow scope creep to creep in
The implications of scope creep
How to avoid it happening – behavioural change and processes

Next open workshop/s run online:

Date: 25th February

Length: 2.4 hours: 2pm – 4.30pm.

Price: £175 for BCI members, £250 pp for nonmembers

In-house workshop, run for your team and aligned to your challenges and objectives:

Dates: By arrangement.

Price: £1,600 for up to 18 people

Trainers:

Jo Petroccia, Resource Management Consultant, Trainer and Mentor.

Sarah Vick, Chair, Non Exec Director, Trainer & Mentor

In this workshop, you’ll develop a solid understanding of the financial principles that make an agency profitable. From building an agency annual budget, to forecast planning, income recognition and project commercials – we’ve got it covered.

We use examples and scenarios throughout the workshop that make the content engaging, relevant and relatable.

What you’ll take away:

You’ll understand an agency annual budget and how to build one.
You’ll understand income recognition: what it is and why we use it
You’ll have a good working knowledge of agency forecasting planning
You’ll understand the different types of project commercials and their pros and cons
You’ll learn how to join the dots and align finance planning to project and resource planning

Who should attend:

Client Services, all levels from AE to BD
Project Managers
Resource Managers
Operations & Finance

Workshop agenda:

Finance – the big picture.
Understanding income recognition.
Agency pipeline & forecast planning.
Project commercials, the pros, cons and watch outs.

Next open workshop/s run online:

Date: 25th February 2026

Length: Half Day 9.30 – 1pm

Price: £276.50 for BCI members, £395 pp for non members

In-house workshop, run for your team and aligned to your challenges and objectives:

Date: By arrangement

Price: £2,600 for up to 18 people

Trainers:

Jo Petroccia, Resource Management Consultant, Trainer and Mentor.

Sarah Vick, Chair / Non Executive Director for creative and digital businesses.