Speaking up doesn’t come naturally to us all, yet it’s a skill anyone can learn.
This half-day session gives you the knowledge, tools and practice to show up differently in meetings from the very next day. This isn’t a plan to “fake it until you make it”, but a clear and practical guide to build your confidence and speak up more at work.
This session is for anyone who knows they hold back and wants to change that. Whether you’re early in your career or managing a team, everyone in the room is there for the same reason. You’re in good company.
“As someone who has struggled with confidence since a child, I find it empowering to know that others also feel the same way and that there are ongoing steps I can take to improve my own confidence”
“I loved this workshop! I’ve had quite a stressful week and this was a lovely way to re-connect with myself and others. It has made me feel like some of my fears and worries are more manageable and within reach.”
“A little professional confidence boost – that’s what I got thanks to Charlotte!”
> BCI member tickets are £125 + VAT
> Non-member tickets are £185 + VAT
Your host is Charlotte May, founder of Your Future Space and qualified leadership and confidence coach. Charlotte coaches new leaders and business owners to overcome self-doubt, increase their influence and lead authentically. Charlotte spent years in the same high-pressure rooms her clients now sit in and the tools she teaches are built for agency life.
Charlotte spent more than a decade working in media agencies as a Strategy director on brands including IKEA, Vodafone and Sainsbury’s. Early in her career she hit burnout trying to please everyone, and rebuilding her own confidence is what led her to coaching. She founded Your Future Space in 2021 and has since helped hundreds of leaders stop second-guessing themselves and start showing up as the leader they actually are. Her style is direct yet supportive and always leaves you with something practical to take away.
If you’re in the early stages of building something creative, or just want a night of inspiration surrounded by people doing exactly that, this one’s for you.
Canopy Demo Night is coming to Bath Spa University’s Locksbrook campus on 28th April. It’s a celebration of creative entrepreneurship with live demos, great conversation, and a party atmosphere.
Here’s what to expect:
• A fireside chat with Zillah Watson — former head of VR at the BBC, immersive storytelling innovator, and founder of Phase Space (you’ll get to try her VR headsets on the night!) and Coral Manton, artist-technologist and head of the Centre for Creative Technology at Bath Spa.
• A live portrait artist (you could leave with a drawing of yourself)
• Student and academic entrepreneurs demoing their boldest creative ideas
• A podcast recording live on the night
• Drinks, food, and tours of the workshops at Locksbrook
We’ll be showcasing the entrepreneurial activity going on at BSU and to sparking a conversation about the path to commercializing research and creative practice. It’s an evening to get inspired, make real connections, and be part of Bath’s creative and entrepreneurial community.
Tuesday 28 April 2026
Doors from 6pm | Fireside chat with Zillah + Demos from 6:30pm
Locksbrook Road Campus, Bath BA1 3EL
Free and open to the public.
If you are still obsessing over ranking number one on Google, it’s time for a re-think. Search is changing. We now ask ChatGPT for recommendations or believe the AI overviews rather than visit a website. To stay relevant, you need to look beyond old school SEO and keywords and start building a strategy that helps AI systems find and recommend (cite) your brand.
This session with Varn’s search expert Jess Melaragni explores the practical steps you need to take to ensure your business is discovered by both the AI bots and your target audience.
Jess will guide you through Varn’s AI Visibility Framework, a practical methodology for identifying, measuring, and improving your brand visibility across AI-powered search engines. Sharing a practical action plan, she will show you how to identify ‘citation gaps’, demystify GEO (generative engine optimisation), and explain semantic intent (understanding the ‘why’ behind a customer’s question).
You will learn how to:
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.
Jess is a key part of the Varn’s innovation team, specialising in creating bespoke scripts for clients and internal use, as well as staying up to date with emerging technologies that can impact organic search. She has been working at Varn for over two years and has several years of experience in marketing, having previously worked on the in-house marketing team at Intel.
> Connect with Jess on LinkedIn
> See Varn’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.
Pixel Pioneers, the South West’s leading community conference for front-end developers and UX/UI designers, returns to Bristol for its 8th edition. Once again, the focus is on highly practical talks that will help you build better websites or apps, and you’ll be able to apply what you’ve learned straight away when you’re back in work.
This time, topics include new CSS and JavaScript features safe to use in your projects today, creating web layouts with both code and UI design tools, designing and building low-carbon websites, language as the key to great UX, improving collaboration between designers, developers, and project managers, making music with HTML, and more.
We also offer diversity scholarships for people from underrepresented groups in tech. See https://pixelpioneers.co/diversity-scholarships for details, watch our trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1x4iratmTs, and check out the Pixel Pioneers website for the full schedule and all talk descriptions.
Sign up for the newsletter to stay up to date with all the latest news: https://pixelpioneers.co/events/bristol-2026/#newsletter
In today’s environment, organisations aren’t just judged on what happens… but how they respond. And when communication fails, the damage can escalate fast. Join PRCA South West for their next event, Crisis in the Code – a PR Playbook for Cyber Attacks, to equip PR & Comms professionals with knowledge, confidence, and practical tools to respond effectively when a cyber incident or data breach occurs, whether for you or your clients.
Kelly Pepworth, Chair of PRCA South West & MD Speed Communications, will be joined by our speakers
Cyber Crisis Management Consultant Joanne Gill
Amy Khodabandehloo , Director Commercial Litigation ,
Burges Salmon LLP with a focus on cyber issues.
Daniel Thomas, Director Wales, The Cyber Resilience Centre for Wales
Free to attend but we ask you to register
How to use WordPress as a platform for building Software as a Service solutions.
Looking to build a Software as a Service solution? Join me, Peter Fernandez, and let me show you how WordPress — the world’s most recognised CMS — can also be a platform for doing just that!
Do you struggle to make decisions and constantly second-guess yourself?
Do you worry about messing up or something going wrong at work?
Have you ever had niggling self-doubt thinking, “What if I ‘m not good enough?”
Does criticism hit you hard and make you feel like you’ve failed?
If so, this workshop is for you.
Whether you run your own business or are leading a team in a corporate role, confidence makes all the difference to your happiness and success at work. Yet we’re often not taught the fundamental skills of building confidence.
In this session, we will:
Bust common confidence myths such as ‘you need to be an extrovert to be confident’
Explore how confidence impacts our behaviour and how others see us
Share 3 actionable ways to boost your self-confidence this week
This is an interactive session, so we encourage you to keep your cameras on. It doesn’t matter if you’re eating your lunch or WFH, we’d love to see your face! If you’re in the office, it might be worth finding a place where you can talk openly and share with the group.
Feedback from past attendees:
“It can often feel like people have access to a manual of how to get ahead in your career. This workshop felt like a chapter of that but better!”
“I really enjoyed the session today. I didn’t realise there were patterns in my behaviour and that they were linked to my confidence levels. The tips provided were also easy to follow and direct.”
“I loved the practical tools and can’t wait to go away and try them”
“A great session to recognise the habits showing your lack of confidence and how to tackle it.”
It was a really informative session, I feel like I understand myself better now!”
“Very useful! It was great to share with others, you made it a safe space for us all!”
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About Charlotte:
Charlotte May is a qualified Leadership & Confidence Coach and Founder of Your Future Space. She works with new leaders and business owners to feel confident in their decisions and Lead authentically.
Alongside 1:1 coaching programmes, Charlotte facilitates workshops, team away days and bespoke group coaching initiatives for agencies and businesses. Before Coaching, Charlotte was a strategy director in large-scale media agencies. She combines her strategic and coaching expertise to help people get more of what they want at work.
See more about Your Future Space here: www.yourfuturespace.co.uk
Are you an audio maker in the south west looking to make more industry pals? Bristol Sounds Good next social event is here!
We’ll be at Society Cafe – Harbourside, on Sunday 26th April from 11am-1pm(ish), come join us for a coffee!
No sign ups etc but feel free to find us on IG (@BristolSoundsGood) for more meet up details, new faces most welcome! See you there!
Bristol Creative Industries is thrilled to, once again, be partnering with The Early Careers Foundation for a brilliant initiative for Bristol Creative Industries members.
The Foundation is a social mobility charity that works with young people from low-income backgrounds across the UK, to ensure that talent & hard work are what determine their career success, not background.
One of its initiatives is a mentoring programme, which pairs employees from partner organisations (that’s BCI and our brilliant members!) with 16-18-year-olds for monthly, hour-long mentoring sessions from October-July.
You can volunteer to be a mentor to one of these high-potential young people using the Foundation’s expertly designed resources to support building their confidence, developing their employability skills and offering invaluable professional guidance.
Bristol Creative Industries members can join a 30 minute Zoom session on Tuesday 21st April from 12.30-1pm with Alex Hutton, Foundation manager, to find out:
The Foundation does the legwork – covering the cost of your Enhanced DBS check, running comprehensive mentoring training sessions and providing expertly designed resources to structure each session – so that the only ‘eligibility’ criteria is that you are enthusiastic, happy to share learnings from your own professional experience and crucially, committed to at least one year of monthly mentoring sessions.
The mentoring scheme is an easy way to play your part in inspiring the next generation of talent and anyone can become a mentor so it’s a brilliant way to get the whole team involved.
This is a free session exclusively for Bristol Creative Industries members. Click the ‘Buy Tickets’ button below to reserve your spot.
Not a BCI member and want to take part? Join today!
The Guardian wants a YouTube video. The Times wants a TikTok. No one wants a stuffy press release. Learn how to pitch to video journalists
YS Does Brunch is back!
And we’re starting with some home truths….
Strong visual content is now the difference between getting noticed and getting ignored in a journalist’s inbox.
You don’t need to be a TikTok-savvy content creator. But you do need to know how to level up what you’re sending out.
Don’t want to take our word for it?
We’re inviting travel writer, editor and videographer Andy Wasley (featured in Nat Geo Traveller, Adventure.com, Trail and The Great Outdoors and more), who’ll explain what PRs actually need to do to keep up when video content is key.
Come along to learn what’s missing from your media pitch over some great coffee, delicious croissants, and refreshing conversations.
Date: Thursday, 30th April
Time: 9:30 AM – 11 AM
Location: The Junction Room, Temple 1852, Temple Campus, Lower Approach Rd, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6QA
Tickets are limited, so don’t delay signing up!
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