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Get Business Ready Online Event Offers Final Few Spaces

Get Business Ready is a training morning to help you rethink the way you work, in some cases in an online environment, and consider how your ‘business’ may function beyond the pandemic when live activities resume.

Published: 30 June 2020 | 12:00 AM Updated: 28 April 2021 | 4:31 PM
The course is geared towards helping musicians and creative practitioners strike a balance between creativity and sustainability. Photo credit: Shutterstock

Whether you want to set up a project or business, work with children and young people in a range of creative settings or monetise musical and creative skills, this session is open to all. Get Business Ready is geared towards helping musicians and creative practitioners strike a balance between creativity and sustainability.

Tickets cost £10 and include a 30-minute one-to-one mentoring session, and the course will take place over Zoom on Friday 20 July, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm.

There are a final few places left, so those interested are encouraged to sign up as soon as they are able.

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