We are The Creative Collective - a networking group for creative professionals. (For TCC24 info scroll down!)

🎭 Welcoming community

🎭 Build your business

🎭 Form new relationships

🎭 Support each other

🎭 Collaboration not competition

Format of the meeting

• Hilarious intro from Ben and Martin
• Breakout rooms - including a weird ice-breaker prompt
• Intro and ask round 1 (15 second pitches)
• 5 minute 121
• M artin's Spinny Wheel Thing
• 5 minute 121
• Intro and ask round 2
• Breakout rooms - choose your own
• Bizarre s tat of the day
• Hilarious outro from Ben and Martin
• If time allows... TCC after dark!

If you like fun, fast paced and engaging networking, come along. You've got nothing to lose. Literally - the first 3 visits are free. ..

After that it's either £5 per meeting or you can join on a yearly membership (with benefits!) for £99.

• If you've had all of your free visits and want to join for a year, contact us here: [email protected]
• If you've had all of your free visits and don't want to join for a year, but want to book onto another event, send £5 via Paypal to this address: [email protected]

Work in a creative role? Join us!

Organised and hosted by

Ben Bowles, photographer/videographer and Martin Whiskin Voiceover Artist

W hen registering we'll bung you on the mailing list so you hear about all our other events and updates.

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TCC24 - 8th May 2024.

A 24 hour extravaganza filled with networking, workshops, presentations, performances and other stuff. Raising funds for Mind, Community Driving School and Head in The Game.

13:00-14:30 The Creative Collective Networking - Sponsored by The Business Allotment

14.30-15:30 Jodie Newman from The Business Allotment: 60 minute creative blitz. - Sponsored by Kaydee Web.

Bring a business challenge - anything that you feel stuck on, or you want a fresh look at – and spend the hour with Jodie using some of her creative tools to get new ideas. You’ll be limbering up your creative muscles, working on your challenge in a creative way, having a bit of creative chat and taking away a mini toolkit of tools so you can get ideas at the drop of a hat. Or a Polo. Or a rubber duck.

15:30-15:45 Jen Howell from H&H Creative: 10 big learnings from 10 years of Howell & Hicks-ing

15:45-16:00 Phil Simpson - PPL Architects: Using natural materials in your home. The benefits - and costs.

16:00-16:30 Kelly Drewett from Kaydee Web: Blog About A Blob - Sponsored by Igloo Media

Learn how to blog effectively about anything. Use creativity to craft blog posts that help your audience and ultimately improve your website's search engine rank. Let's use your imagination in your content.

16:30-17:00 Andrew Laws -from Yeseo: Own your own Google - Sponsored by Igloo Media

What are Google telling your potential clients and customers about your business? How can you find out, and how can you fix it if Google are wrong?

17:00-17:30 Lisa Whalley Smith from Klarity Marketing: Increasing your website sales

Lisa, owner of Klarity Marketing, helps purpose driven ecommerce brands to grow their online revenue by focusing on three key website metrics.

Join Lisa at 5pm to learn what these three metrics are and how to increase them. She’ll also demonstrate how increasing these metrics by 30% can double your website revenue.

17:30-18:00 John Nicholson - Community Driving School

18:00-18:30 Head in The Game

18:30-19:30 Grow Radio podcasting round table

19:30-20:00 Alex Durham videographer - Vooming Awesome

20:00-21:00 Michael Coltham from Black Lab Music: Cinematic Composing for Videographers and Filmmakers. - Sponsored by Be Gallant

30 minute speed composing demonstration

21:00-22:00 Madame Q’s Hour of Mystery

22:00-23:30 Never Wednesday Nights - TCC Dungeons and Dragons role playing group.

Join the TCCTTRPG group (I know! Try saying that 3 times fast!) as we take on a mini adventure over 90 minutes. Defeating dungeons, dragons, bad rolls and kobolds! And maybe some inner demons along the way...

The TCCTTRPG (There it is again!) group is a small offshoot off The Creative Collective who embrace their nerdism and enjoy a good Table Top RPG (TTCTTRPG, get it?) wherin we roleplay our characters, playing out a story that not even the Dungeon Master, can predict what will happen!

23:30-01:00 FILM FESTIVAL! Featuring work from TCC members and alumni.

01:00-01:30 Shanel Richardson - live illustration.

Join Shanel for chill vibes and game music whilst she sketches up an art piece for charity. She may even take live requests on what to include.

01:30-02:30 Jo Charnock - Been There, Scene It, Done It!

Writing a screenplay is like building a house. No matter how pretty you make it, without the proper foundation, everything soon starts to fall apart. This session offers a candid discussion about the fundamentals of the screenwriting process from concept to finished script.

02:30-03:30 Online pool competition

03:30-05:00 Alex Durham - Make your own stop motion animation!

05:00-06:00 Odessa Sherreard - Ask me anything.

Odessa has been community building on LinkedIn for 3 years now. If you're creating content (even if you're not) this is your chance to ask her anything!

06:00-06:45 Camilla Baker - 3 ways into Meditation

Come and try 5 ways to de-stress. Camilla will show how meditation doesn’t have to be hard, annoying or hippy dippy woo woo!

06:45-07:00 Nick Field - Something to Shout About.

Nick talks about the 5 lessons the acting world can teach us about business, and the top 5 strangest voiceover jobs he's ever done.

07:00-08:00 TCC speed networking - Sponsored by Speak for Me

08:00-08:30 Morgana Marie - Those creative whispers of consciousness.

Let’s go on an exploration through consciousness to activate your creative potential and possibilities.

08:30-09:00 Rachel W - Survival story

09:15-09:45 James Easley and Helen Banyard from The Good Stuff: Be More Dolly. 9 steps to defining your brand.

Take a look at the steps we use when workshopping brand definition, the advice that Dolly Parton personally gave to us, and then finish with a Q&A on how to apply this to your business.

09:45-10:00 TCC informal networking

10:00-10:30 Jude Wharton -Writing a Business Book, My Experience and Was it Worth it? (By someone with no professional expertise in writing or anything writing related.)

Jude Wharton is one of the co-founders of Ready Steady Websites®, an off the shelf website and membership site template service. Jude and her business partner and husband, Chris launched Ready Steady Websites® in 2019 and they have been running a successful digital design company, 2nd Floor Designs Ltd since 2010. They are also the co-authors of The Website Handbook.

10:30-10.45 Phil Simpson - PPL Architects: Creating a sustainable home office.

10:45-11.00 Clair Melville-Brown

11:00-11:30 Jay Finch from MIND

11:30-12:00 Liz Drury - Motivation and Momentum for Creatives.

Ideas for marketing your business, especially in a quiet period.

12:00-12:30 Tom Jepson, The Creative Rebel

12:30-13:00 Wrap up

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