Workshops
As a member of The Business Community, you get access to as many of the following workshops as you like. They are genuinely commercial workshops that if you weren't a member, you would be paying for. Do take advantage of these offers as all small business owners should be continually developing and learning new skills.
The people offering these workshops are not being paid to do so - it is part of their contribution to the community - it would be great if you could support them.
Each online event is limited to 10 people, and will be 60-90 minutes, dates below.
Beyond the Pretty Picture: Mastering Graphic Design Fundamentals
Mark Coster, Pixooma
An invaluable graphic design toolkit for those producing their own marketing materials. What you’ll get: An explanation of key design principles, errors to avoid, and practical considerations. At the end of the session, you’ll have the opportunity to get advice and feedback on a project you are working on, and you’ll be given a PDF checklist of design principles for you to refer to in future.
Thursday 8th January (12-1.30pm) - Book now.
Making The Most of PR
Eleanor Lester, Shrewd PR
After attending the workshop you’ll have a better understanding of what PR is, and have 10 handy tips that you can use to PR your business.
Thursday 22nd January (12-1.30pm) - Book now.
Create Quick Content with Canva
Marie-Louise O'Neill, Lovely Evolution
Ready to make content creation faster, easier, and a whole lot more fun? Join us for a hands-on session where you’ll discover how to create professional, on-brand content in just a few clicks using Canva’s powerful AI tools.
Thursday 19th February (12-1.30pm) - Book now.
The 3-Second Rule — Grabbing Attention in a Scrolling World
Emma Watson, Specky & Ginge
Business owners: you’ve got 3 seconds to grab a lead. Here’s the rule. You’ll learn a 3-step framework (Stop-Signal-Spark) to grab attention in the first 3 seconds, so your posts, videos, and messages get noticed instead of ignored.
Thursday 5th March (12-1.30pm) - Book now.
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Mental Health – how do you stay well, and what to do when things start to go wrong?
Dr. A J Yates, White Dog First Aid
A discussion about what constitutes mental health. An introduction to the stress container and how to manage it and a look at the recognition features for common mental health conditions.
AI and You: Smarter Copy ~ Bigger Impact
Stephen Church, Copywriter Pro
A hands-on workshop designed to help small businesses use AI effectively in their copywriting. Attendees will learn how to choose the right AI tools, craft better prompts, refine AI-generated content, and keep their brand voice authentic. It’ll also cover ethical considerations and where human creativity outshines AI, so you can write faster, smarter, and with impact.
Understanding Agentic AI
John Scotcher, Pearson Treehouse
Using AI as you personal assistant and asking it questions is great. However the real power is in sending it off to do stuff for you without you having to babysit it as it does. This is agentic AI. This session explains the concept and how it can be used by small business to save time and work harder.
10 ways to optimise your content for your target audience
Kevin Robinson, The Content Generator
With all the changes in SEO and AI search, it is more important than ever that your content not only meets the new search needs, but that it reaches the right customer. We will look at a series of practical, easy to do, tips to make sure that when a potential customer finds your site, it is not only for the right reasons, but that they then stay, buy and return.
Selling with Ease without the Sleaze
Julie Futcher, The Sales Ace
This workshop has been developed to help two types of individuals, those who are not natural salespeople that would like to learn sales techniques and those who would like to brush up their sales skills. You will learn skills that YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH and understand that selling is not a dark art; you do not have to be an “in your face salesperson” to win business. Take the fear out of sales and get basic sales skills that will help you win more business.
From starting my own business just over 12 months ago, the support of this network group has been amazing. It is great value for money and there are free workshops to help you build your business. I would highly recommend The Business Community.
Nicky Buckley - East Midlands HR
Since starting my business 18 months or so ago, I have gone from a networking novice to being a solid contributor through meeting and getting to know the wealth of business skills, knowledge and experience of Paul Green and the members of The Business Community. I mainly attend the Wellingborough session, but have plans to spread myself further afield in Northamptonshire during the rest of this year as membership allows this, unlike others.
The format of the meetings is fun, but has meaning ... and you can always be assured a friendly welcome (as I got recently when attending the Daventry session for the first time). I have made loads of good business contacts that I would have only made through The Business Community ... if you are starting or have recently started a business, book yourself on a session and find out for yourself ... breakfast is good too!
Andy Sarson - APS Marketing Consulting Services
The Business Community is a top class networking group. The meetings are great, with a relaxed but professional feel. The members are all very supportive and Paul does a great job of keeping the meetings interesting as well as providing more than just a meeting. I would highly recommend them to anyone that is looking for networking opportunities.
Sean Clegg - Tiny Jungle
This is a small enough networking group to feel like a community but big enough to have a good variety of different business types and sizes. Love the meeting structure (with a difference) which gives the chance to discuss as a whole group and share ideas rather than just speaking to the people sitting next to you. Can't recommend it more highly to anyone running their own business.
Margot Clarke - Margot Clarke Consultancy
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