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SUMMARY:Setting Up An Arts Company: An Intro to not-for-profit structures
DESCRIPTION:If you’re thinking about setting up a not-for-profit company\, Community Interest Company (CIC) or charity\, this training will help you explore the options available and give you the information to decide your next steps. \nWe will cover: \n\n\nWhen and why to set up an organisation \n\n\nDifferent types of legal structures \n\n\nChoosing the right kind of structure for your work \n\n\nDefining your purpose or charitable objects \n\n\nNuts and bolts e.g. bank accounts\, insurance \n\n\nPractical next steps \n\n\nThe session will be practical\, jargon-busting\, and will give you the chance to get your questions answered so you can get on with developing your work. \n“Thanks again\, you broke through a lot of the jargon and big business words that absolutely terrified me when I first started researching by myself!” \n– Ffion \nAbout the Trainer: \nChristina Poulton \nI’m Christina (she/her). I have worked for arts and not for profit organisations\, and with individual artists across the UK\, since Linkin Park were topping the charts. I support organisations and freelancers to make your work easier to manage and fund\, so you can focus on the creative stuff. I’ve worked with hundreds of people on their organisation set up\, including training on how to choose a legal structure\, advice sessions\, and successful incorporation of 18 charities and community interest companies in the last couple of years. \nBook HERE.
URL:https://cacn.co.uk/event/setting-up-an-organisation/
LOCATION:zoom
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SUMMARY:Creative Crack - May 28th
DESCRIPTION:Following feedback from The Big Meet\, we’re delighted to be able to bring you a series of in-person networking sessions. Introducing… Creative Crack! \nThese events are informal\, free networking sessions are for anyone active in Cumbria’s creative and cultural scene\, especially younger practitioners. We’re going to be running three sessions in the run up to summer\, and there will be no agenda and no speeches! Just space and time to chat\, ask questions and share ideas – the CACN team will be there and it will be a great opportunity to meet new people. If you’re on the fence about attending any sort of social situation until you know if there will be food\, rest assured that snacks and drinks will be provided. \nKindly supported by and taking place at Tullie in Carlisle\, our second Creative Crack session takes place on Thursday 28th of May between 5pm and 8pm. \nThe sessions are free to attend\, but we ask that you register a spot online. If you have any questions or have any issues with you booking\, please get in touch with us at hello@cacn.co.uk.
URL:https://cacn.co.uk/event/creative-crack-may-28th/
LOCATION:Tullie\, Carlisle
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SUMMARY:Promoting and Marketing: Stand Out From the Crowd NEW DATE
DESCRIPTION:Public Relations (PR) – it’s all about how you communicate with the wider world\, get people interested in what you’re doing – and get them to pay for it…  \nThis training will cover:  \n\nPR basics (listings\, press releases\, contacts\, media landscape at the moment) \n\n\nSocial media – best practice (including caution about AI!) \n\n\nMarketing yourself or your organisation - how to get new clients \n\nAn interactive session with a chance for you to pose your questions.  \nBook now. \nWho’s it for?  \nCreative freelancers\, and those running small and micro cultural organisations who want to raise their profile and cut through to a wider audience.  \nTrainer: DICKIE FELTON has worked in communications for 25 years including as comms manager at National Museums Liverpool; Keep Britain Tidy (spokesperson on glamourous things like flytipping and dog dirt!); the National Football Museum. Largely freelance for the last ten years\, with clients ranging from museums to live music to the National Rural Touring Forum. Before going into PR Dickie was a journalist on the Liverpool Echo and still likes to write when he has the time.  \nThe session will take place on Zoom and will include a short break.                \nWe do not want cost to be a barrier.  If you cannot afford the full cost\, please get in touch with us at hello@cacn.co.uk.     \n 
URL:https://cacn.co.uk/event/promoting-and-marketing-stand-out-from-the-crowd-new-date/
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SUMMARY:Writers' Meet-up: Making Connections
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Katie Hale \nWriting can often feel isolating. We sit in our own rooms\, working on our own projects\, and sometimes it can get lonely. How can we make connections with other writers? With other professionals in the industry? With readers? \nCome along to make connections with other Cumbrian writers\, and to discuss some of the ways other writers make those connections beyond the Writers’ Network. \nWhether you’ve been to a CACN Writers’ Network meeting before\, or this is your first time popping along – we’d love to see you! \nFREE – but please book your place to receive joining details HERE \nBased in Cumbria\, Katie Hale is an internationally recognised novelist and poet\, with over a decade’s experience of leading and facilitating creative programmes. She won a Northern Debut Award for her poetry collection\, White Ghosts\, and is the author of two novels: My Name is Monster\, and The Edge of Solitude; as well as two poetry pamphlets. She has also written for radio\, theatre and immersive digital performance. \n 
URL:https://cacn.co.uk/event/writers-meet-up-making-connections/
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SUMMARY:Creative Crack - April 30th
DESCRIPTION:Following feedback from The Big Meet\, we’re delighted to be able to bring you a series of in-person networking sessions. Introducing… Creative Crack! \nThese events are informal\, free networking sessions are for anyone active in Cumbria’s creative and cultural scene\, especially younger practitioners. We’re going to be running three sessions in the run up to summer\, and there will be no agenda and no speeches! Just space and time to chat\, ask questions and share ideas – the CACN team will be there and it will be a great opportunity to meet new people. If you’re on the fence about attending any sort of social situation until you know if there will be food\, rest assured that snacks and drinks will be provided. \nKindly supported by and taking place at Tullie in Carlisle\, join us for our first Creative Crack session on Thursday 30th of April between 5pm and 8pm. \nThe sessions are free to attend\, but we ask that you register a spot online. If you have any questions or have any issues with you booking\, please get in touch with us at hello@cacn.co.uk.
URL:https://cacn.co.uk/event/creative-crack-april-30th/
LOCATION:Tullie\, Carlisle
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SUMMARY:Creative Crack - June 25th
DESCRIPTION:Following feedback from The Big Meet\, we’re delighted to be able to bring you a series of in-person networking sessions. Introducing… Creative Crack! \nThese events are informal\, free networking sessions are for anyone active in Cumbria’s creative and cultural scene\, especially younger practitioners. We’re going to be running three sessions in the run up to summer\, and there will be no agenda and no speeches! Just space and time to chat\, ask questions and share ideas – the CACN team will be there and it will be a great opportunity to meet new people. If you’re on the fence about attending any sort of social situation until you know if there will be food\, rest assured that snacks and drinks will be provided. \nKindly supported by and taking place at Tullie in Carlisle\, our final Creative Crack session takes place on Thursday 25th of June between 5pm and 8pm. \nThe sessions are free to attend\, but we ask that you register a spot online. If you have any questions or have any issues with you booking\, please get in touch with us at hello@cacn.co.uk.
URL:https://cacn.co.uk/event/creative-crack-june-25th/
LOCATION:Tullie\, Carlisle
CATEGORIES:CACN,See It To Be It
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