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Displaying Your Products Workshop

The Collaborate for Business Growth ERDF project provides support to businesses from different sectors across Leicester and Leicestershire. The LCB Depot Business Growth Team is responsible for providing support to creative businesses in Leicester and Leicestershire.

The Business Growth Team are seeking to contract with a number of suppliers to deliver bespoke workshops to creative industry SME’s in Leicester.

Brief for the support

Many business do not display or describe their products online in a manner that will engage with potential customers. The Business Growth Team are seeking a deliverer that will be able to help creative businesses to describe their products online and show them how to take photographs that showcase their products. This bitesize workshop should demonstrate how language can be used to attractively describe products to stimulate customer’s interest and encourage purchases. Alongside this, the workshop should explore what techniques can be used to display products appropriately online and give the business owner the skills to be able to take their own photographs of their products for their online shop. This element of the workshop should be delivered in conjunction with a photographer or a creative business that has successfully displayed and sold products online.

Around 70% of creatives tend to have dyslexia, and this needs to be taken into account in planning the support. Where possible, the support should be innovative and interactive with practical tasks and examples. Delegates should leave with handouts and templates to use during and after the session.

Budget

The indicative budget for this work is £600 + VAT.

The event organiser will be responsible for:

 Liaising with the LCB Depot Business Growth Team

 Booking the venue

 Ordering refreshments (if appropriate)

 Assisting in marketing the event to the creative sector

Potential attendees may be centred in or around Leicester’s Cultural Quarter and, therefore, the location of the workshop should be carefully considered to maximise attendance. These activities are being funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and therefore all documents relating to this activity will have to adhere to our funder’s guidelines, including the use of ERDF logos on any presentation slides and hand-outs. The ERDF publicity toolkit is available at:- https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/ 564432/esif_branding_and_publicity_requirements.pdf

The Business Development Team will be responsible for:

 Providing appropriate ERDF paperwork where necessary  Assist with marketing the events  Registration at the events  Providing Monitoring and Evaluation forms

Timescale

We would like the session to be delivered in February/March 2018

Assessment Criteria

The components to be assessed are listed below:

0 does not meet requirement Category 4 exceeds requirement

Relevant Experience of delivering similar activities to creative businesses Experience

Approach and Methods of delivery suitable to client group (include details of proposed activities Methodology and materials for delegates to take away)

Proposed venue for the workshop is within Leicester’s Cultural Quarter

Value for The proposal demonstrates good value for money and falls within the indicative Money budget

Administration Delivery of workshops aligns with project timescales

The proposal demonstrates an understanding of ERDF branding guidelines

Deadline to Quote Submissions outlining how you meet the assessment criteria should be sent to [email protected] no later than 5pm on Monday 18 th December 2017