Training Programmes
Insight Out - Design & Innovation - November 2007 to April 2008
For design graduates or anyone who has an idea for a business in the areas of product design, glass making, jewellery design, garden design, furniture making, illustration, graphic design, or fashion design.
Featuring
- £10,000 funding pot for business ideas
- £1,000 business development grant
- Post programme business support
Eligibility & Requirements
- You must be a UK resident or hold a valid work visa and want to start an early-stage design company
- You cannot already be trading
- You must be going through the process of registering for tax in the UK
- You must demonstrate a high level of ability to create, innovate and build something of value around your business idea
Duration
4 months part time, with follow on support throughout 2008.
Deadline for applications
Thursday 1st November 2007.
Insight Out - Moving Image - September 2008 to March 2009
Featuring
- £15,000 finance pot for business
- Travel bursaries (up to £150 each depending on distance travelled)
- Mentoring support
Eligibility & Requirements
- You must have 18 months experience in the moving image industry (this can include voluntary work and paid work)
- You must submit a portfolio at the application stage that should include:
- A showreel of your previous short film work (on DVD)
- A DVD with the rushes/rough cut/final version of a film you're currently working on, which requires marketing and distribution (this must not be a film/project which has already been entered into a festival)
- A distribution and marketing plan for your film/project
- A statement outlining how Insight Out will help you carry out your plan
- A CV highlighting your relevant moving image experience
- You must be a UK resident or hold a valid work visa
- 8 places are available to East Midlands residents
- 4 places are available to West Midlands residents
Duration
8 days of workshops / seminars between September 2008 and March 2009.
Deadline for applications
10.00am, 1st September 2008. Shortlisted applicants will be interviewed on 11th & 12th September 2008.
For more details email rebecca.birch@bcu.ac.uk or call 0121 204 9887.