Rebel Meetups is a Rebellious Co initiative – an impact organisation supporting entrepreneurs & business leaders since 2013.
Come along to Rebel Meetups Bristol, one of many free-to-attend meetups in a global network of events run by Rebellious Co. Designed as a safe space to connect, learn and share with fellow professional rebels, this is a place where founders, freelancers, creators, creatives, inventors and investors alike can come together.Their low-agenda format often includes fireside chats from local business legends, but leaves most of the space for connecting with others.
HUM4NS began life as a series of talks among entrepreneurs, providing them with a platform to step out from behind ‘what they do’ and venture into the ‘who I am, what holds me back and how I moved forward’.
HUM4NS provided a platform for ordinary people to share Honest, Uplifting, Motivational, Aspirational, Nourishment for the Soul, inspiring others to take action and build towards achieving their own dreams.
Stepping into a brave new world and opening ourselves up to a new audience, HUM4NS has a simple but important quest; to help the world be a happier, healthier, smarter and kinder place, by providing a place for people to learn, grow and develop.
On the night, you can expect:
– Celebrating HUM4NS
– HUM4NS talks
– Networking/drinks
– Awesome people!
With live music and poetry from some fantastic talent from the South West, it’s shaping up to be a must-see event on the Music and Poetry calendar. Each performer will provide 4 or 5 minutes of their latest work.
Arrive at The Square Club for 19:30 for the event starting at 20:00. Drinks are available all evening from our lower deck cocktail bar.
General tickets are £5, and this is to be paid on the door in cash.
Learn why diverse teams are better for business and take away some practical tips on inclusive hiring and making your workplace more accessible.
In this webinar, Charlotte Ball will share experiences from Gritty Talent’s work in the creative sector, focusing on equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) when building creative teams.
Bristol Creative Industries members can register here
This webinar is exclusively for BCI members. It’s one of many benefits you get by joining the community. Not a BCI member? Read more about the benefits and join here.
Anyone who recruits, shapes or leads creative teams and is motivated to broaden their talent pool and work more inclusively.
With a decade of experience as a TV producer making content for the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 across a variety of genres, Charlotte’s industry knowledge and practical production experience position her as one of Gritty Talent’s leads on training, development and off-screen recruitment.
She has considerable experience in working with underrepresented and DDN talent and a flair for identifying new opportunities and connections, imaginatively joining the dots between people and partnerships in her network. Most recently, she has been producing and delivering training sessions focusing on inclusive leadership, ED&I 101 as well as mentoring and upskilling individuals from the creative sector.
> Connect with Charlotte on LinkedIn
> See Gritty Talent’s BCI profile here
The online sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, and allow BCI members to share their knowledge with fellow members.
The webinars are a 15/20 minute presentation followed by a 10/15 minute Q&A. The sessions are a mix of expert tips and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
The webinars are exclusively for BCI members. They are one of many benefits you get by joining the community. Not a BCI member? Read more about the benefits and join here.
Please get in touch with Dan if you’re a BCI member and you’re interested in presenting on a future webinar.
Wherever you are on your AI journey, this talk offers powerful reframes and practical takeaways, including:
If you’re serious about standing out and charging what you’re worth as AI reinvents the industry, then this session is for you. Expect bold thinking, tough love and plenty of space to ask the questions that matter.
Robin Bonn is the CEO of Co:definery, a specialist consulting and coaching practice that helps agencies accelerate growth, command a premium and attract the best talent in the market. Over the last ten years, he’s advised close to 150 agencies, from global networks like DDB, McCann and UM, to leading independents like VCCP, AnalogFolk and MSQ.
He’s also the author of the international bestselling book Market of One, host of The Immortal Life of Agencies podcast, a Marketing Week columnist, the co-chair of BIMA’s CEO & Leadership Council and a mentor for SheSays, supporting women and non-binary people in the creative industries.
> Early bird BCI member tickets are £35+VAT (available until 30th September)
> BCI member tickets are £45+VAT (available from 1st October)
> Non-member tickets are £85+VAT.
When purchasing 4 tickets or more, use the code SAVE15 to receive a 15% discount on your booking.
All tickets include a copy of Robin’s book ‘Market of One’, lunch and refreshments.
Our Skills Bootcamp is built for ambitious professionals in the creative industries – whether you are employed by an SME or working as a freelancer. For SME employees, the programme will strengthen leadership and management capabilities, preparing you to step into senior roles and contribute to business growth. For freelancers, it offers a practical toolkit to enhance your business strategy, client relationships, and long-term sustainability.
Delivered across eight weeks the programme will develop a holistic skillset, encompassing business management functions (understanding financing, contracting, pitching and marketing approaches), alongside core leadership capabilities to create a climate for creativity and innovation across the organisation.
Fully funded for freelancers and 90% funded for SME organisaions.
We’re back and bigger than ever at Brunswick Square this month. After a summer of hikes, sea swims and relaxing in the park – we got to thinking, what is it about being in nature that makes you feel so good?
Creative by Nature is an exploration into how nature inspires creativity and enhances wellbeing and we’re joined by the best minds in the field to chat about why getting outside is so important!
In this webinar, PR expert Bridie Hinson will share an introduction to PR for small businesses and self-employed people who want to get in front of more people with what they do.
PR does not mean writing a press release or getting in the newspaper. It’s an approach to promoting products, people and organisations, just like marketing is. And just like marketing isn’t just for big brands, PR isn’t either.
Bridie will cover how PR will help you grow, promote and sustain your small business and walk you through a wider world of opportunities – press, podcasts, speaking, articles, collaborations, and partnerships.
If you want to learn new tools for visibility, promotion and improving the long term reputation of your business – beyond content creation – join this training.
Bristol Creative Industries members can register here
This webinar is exclusively for BCI members. It’s one of many benefits you get by joining the community. Not a BCI member? Read more about the benefits and join here.
People who own a small business – whether you’re an artist, maker, consultant, educator, coach, or service provider – and you’d sell more if you could get in front of more people.
Bridie Hinson is a PR mentor for small business owners. Bridie helps founders to proactively build their reputation and reach through opportunities such as podcast appearances, press features, speaking engagements, and collaborations.
With a deep understanding of expert positioning and trust building, and recognising that PR is often a missed opportunity for small businesses, Bridie’s mission is to help small business owners feel confident promoting themselves in a way that feels natural and authentic.
Drawing from three years in mentoring and her previous 10-year career in PR, Bridie regularly shares her expertise through public speaking (Eleanor Mollie’s The Brand Blitz); guest trainings (Joy of Indie Club and Good Business); press features (Estila magazine); and interviews (Joy of Indie podcast and Sophie Carefull’s YouTube channel).
> Connect with Bridie on LinkedIn and on Instagram
The online sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, and allow BCI members to share their knowledge with fellow members.
The webinars are a 15/20 minute presentation followed by a 10/15 minute Q&A. The sessions are a mix of expert tips and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
The webinars are exclusively for BCI members. They are one of many benefits you get by joining the community. Not a BCI member? Read more about the benefits and join here.
Please get in touch with Dan if you’re a BCI member and you’re interested in presenting on a future webinar.
Given the choice between your high-ticket services and “nothing”, sadly 90%+ will always choose “nothing”, and go about their lives, rapidly forgetting you exist. Even the ones who liked the look of your business and would have made excellent clients in the future.
A good lead magnet – a free item offered in exchange for an email address – will let you capture this interested-but-not-ready segment and position yourself to them as the authority in your field. It will appeal precisely to your ideal clients (filtering out the wrong people) and will populate your email list with the right people at the right time.
Following up on this with an automated email sequence will allow you to “nurture” these warm leads, offering yet more valuable content and systematically converting them into clients.
Once operational, the system will run itself with no further work from you. All you need to do is tell people about it, and it will do its job.
Learn everything you need to know to set up a high-converting lead magnet and follow-up sequence in this webinar with Tom Fallowfield.
Bristol Creative Industries members can register here.
This webinar is exclusively for BCI members. It’s one of many benefits you get by joining the community. Not a BCI member? Read more about the benefits and join here.
Tom has been a web marketer since more or less the dawn of time (2002) and runs vanillakiller.com, a service designed to help creative businesses and freelancers generate more sales with effective messaging and lead magnets.
Vanilla Killer provides a complete messaging overhaul for a fixed price and with a guaranteed success rate. Enquire now for details.
> Connect with Tom on LinkedIn
The online sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, and allow BCI members to share their knowledge with fellow members.
The webinars are a 15/20 minute presentation followed by a 10/15 minute Q&A. The sessions are a mix of expert tips and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
The webinars are exclusively for BCI members. They are one of many benefits you get by joining the community. Not a BCI member? Read more about the benefits and join here.
Please get in touch with Dan if you’re a BCI member and you’re interested in presenting on a future webinar.
We are pleased to offer the opportunity to book a free of charge 30 minute 1:2:1 session for people strategy advice, specifically geared towards the needs of creative businesses.
Richard Roberts has over 30 years’ experience of helping organisations establish dynamic people strategies that help to shape culture and build highly productive and engaged teams. Across his career he has supported a number of marketing and creative agencies as an outsourced HR Director and consultant. As creative and marketing business grow, attracting and retaining talent often creates people challenges that benefit from an external perspective.
These sessions are an opportunity to ask Richard any questions about your people strategy. These might relate to culture, employee engagement, talent retention or the establishment of best practice HR policies.
These sessions are available to all BCI members FREE OF CHARGE, and are delivered in collaboration with en:Rich HR.
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