Is This for You?

Priceless for anyone involved in organising events, the training within this Award brings together all the elements you need to produce memorable, stress-free, successful events.Great for event managers, charity fundraisers, business owners and many more roles, you’ll find this Award provides many skills that can be used throughout your career.

Award and Associated Qualifications

Awarded 50 CPD points upon successful completion

Start Date
Flexible
Study Type
In centre, online, or a combination
Training Type
Award
Duration
50 hours or 2 weeks full-time study

About This Award

A more condensed version of the longer diploma, the Event Management Award will help you gain an increased confidence in planning and running events. Great for event managers, charity fundraisers, business owners and many more roles, you’ll find this award provides many skills that can be used throughout your career.

Event organising is a very sought after role, whether in its own right or within a wider job spec. But it’s not as easy as it may first appear – and the secret is in being ultra-organised.

It’s a skill juggling multiple tasks, co-ordinating large groups of people, marketing for maximum success, and taking care of all the little details which others would forget. Have a clear plan and follow a tried and tested process and you’ll revel in the challenge.

What the award provides you with:

  • Taking you through practical steps to ensure your event success, you’ll learn skills in:
  • Project management – planning and executing successful events
  • Organising activities with clear schedules
  • Communicating effectively to get the best from your team
  • Marketing your events to gain maximum attendance
  • Business use of Microsoft systems, using IT to be more efficient and productive.

You can also choose to brush up your design skills to help create marketing literature, improve your speedwriting for faster note taking or develop your project management skills as a whole.

WHAT WILL YOU GET IN RETURN?

After your practical training, you’ll find an increased confidence in planning and running events, and much of the stress will be reduced as you feel more in control. You’ll have a formula to use for any events you run in this job, and in your future career. Nationally recognised by employers it also looks great on your CV.

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Aims and Objectives

This course is designed to give you the key skills required to be able to plan, set-up and oversee events.

Courses Included

In addition to the courses below you will also choose one of the following courses:

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for Business, Facebook for Business, Video for Business, Twitter for Business, Introduction to Google Website Tools, Blogging for Business, Pinterest for Business, Instagram for Business, LinkedIn for Business, LinkedIn for Jobseekers.

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Pre-Requisites

There are no specific pre-requisites required to study this award.

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: –

Self-Funded:

  • Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;
  • You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.

What we can help with:

  • Providing a comprehensive training programme outlining learning outcomes
  • Tailored personnel letters
  • Communication with finance departments to arrange payment options (upfront or payment plan*).

Funding & Grants:

There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.

We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.

* Terms and Conditions apply. Speak to a Course Advisor for full information on the options available to you.

Career Path

There are many roles that would benefit from event management training, a PA for example could be asked to organise conferences or events as part of their role. With this award on your CV it could lead to a more specialised career in events management such as Event Manager or Project Manager.

What's the Difference?

We offer a range of training packages in a range of subject areas and can offer blended learning opportunities to best meet your needs.

Our courses are practical in nature and focus on a single subject and can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days.

Diplomas are designed to give you a complete skillset mapped to a specific career path and contain a number of core and elective courses.