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Affordable creative industry training
Creative Connection is a pilot scheme that helps freelancers and businesses access training more easily and at a lower cost.
Using their expert industry knowledge and established links with UK-wide training services, Creative Skillset will help you to accurately identify your training needs and the available courses that best meet your requirements. They’ll then do the hard work for you, negotiating deals with training providers on your behalf.
Filling in their Training Needs Analysis sets the ball rolling, which should take around 15 minutes. Then Creative Skillset get to work, trying to find you the best deal. Running this unique and free brokerage scheme enables them to bring together people with similar training needs, and then negotiate group discounts with training providers. The discounts are passed on directly to the freelancer or business, meaning training that could have previously been out of the price range of those acting independently can become affordable.
The pilot focusses on the north of England, but businesses and freelancers from across the UK are welcome to get involved.
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