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Join Amanda Thomas, professional lifestyle, portrait and fashion photographer to learn simple techniques to improve your photography skills and discover how to create beautiful and cohesive images for your brand, your business & your story. Or just for the joy of photography!

We are delighted to be welcoming The West of England Design Forum to the Forge with their fantastic design community meet up PALS.

Words. Small in size yet made for impact. But how do you get it right? Join us for an evening of debate, tips, tricks and other goodies alongside the finest wordsmiths in the SW. We’re talking to all of you designers playing with words from time to time, writers seeking a refresh or creative thinkers learning new ropes.

We are delighted to be welcoming The West of England Design Forum to the Forge with their fantastic design community meet up PALS.

These ‘Peer Assisted Learning Sessions’ are informal evenings exploring subjects to inspire designers and creative minds - everyone is welcome! As a mix of presentations and group discussions they are engaging, insightful and sociable, with people encouraged to share their skills, experience, thoughts and questions (with a couple of experts on hand to call upon too)

We are delighted to be welcoming Pinterest experts Georgie and Dorte of Curly Carrot and Julia Smith, photographer and Instagrammer aka Humphrey & Grace to teach an expertise Session for us. Come and learn how to photograph your products and create an aesthetic story to represent your brand across your website, pinterest & Instagram and discover how Pinterest can drive traffic to your website, generate sales and work with Instagram to be your marketing secret weapon!

Join surface designer Katie Gilles and learn to design and make your very own beautifully patterned bespoke pair of jesmonite terrazzo coasters and discover all about other ways and formats jesmonite can be used.

This workshop is perfect for anyone with a passion for stationery or snail mail, or any bride/groom to be! In this class you'll be introduced to the essential kit for modern calligraphy, learn the basic strokes before progressing to creating and mastering letterforms and words, then start to establish your own style. With demonstrations and plenty of one-to-one tuition you'll be well on your modern calligraphy journey by the time you leave. 

Storytelling is as old as the hills, but recently it has become a marketing buzzword, why?  Because in our digitally crowded lives, crafting a really good story can cut through all the noise to emotionally connect you and your products with your customers.  In today’s world, people need to buy into you before they will buy from you, but how do you build that magic ‘know-like-want' loop?  

We are delighted to be welcoming The West of England Design Forum to the Forge with their fantastic design community meet up PALS.

These ‘Peer Assisted Learning Sessions’ are informal evenings exploring subjects to inspire designers and creative minds - everyone is welcome! As a mix of presentations and group discussions they are engaging, insightful and sociable, with people encouraged to share their skills, experience, thoughts and questions (with a couple of experts on hand to call upon too)

SOLD OUT. Register for our next instagram workshop here

Do you want to harness the full business potential of Instagram? Do you want to ensure your brand stands out from the crowd and appeals to your target customers? Led by blogger and social-media influencer Abi Dare, this workshop will equip you with the tips and knowledge you need to turn your Instagram feed into a major asset by developing a clear and consistent identity.

We are delighted to be welcoming The West of England Design Forum to the Forge with their fantastic design community meet up PALS.

These ‘Peer Assisted Learning Sessions’ are informal evenings exploring subjects to inspire designers and creative minds - everyone is welcome! As a mix of presentations and group discussions they are engaging, insightful and sociable, with people encouraged to share their skills, experience, thoughts and questions (with a couple of experts on hand to call upon too)

We'd love you to join us for our annual Christmas party for creative professionals, freelancers & designer makers.

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Work on your ideas, experiment, think big, make plans, dream a while. So often we don't find time to work on the things that really matter. PLAY is a {free} monthly gathering at the Forge, for creatives, freelancers & independent companies.

Tiny Habits lead to big, beautiful, full-blown habits and creating new habits doesn't need to be difficult. In fact the easier we make them to do, the more successful we'll be. And the quicker your new habits will form. Join this masterclass from Mike Coulter & discover the groundbreaking behaviour change method pioneered by Stanford research scientist Prof BJ Fogg PhD.

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Part of our creative business program - simple, affordable & timely workshops for designer makers, online shops owners & freelancers

An absolute beginners class using Squarespace to create a simple & elegant website for your business

In Clover wouldn't have got where it is now without the help of Instagram! We've met so many great stockists and contributors this way and we know others have used it successfully too to build their brand and expand their business. Join In Clover Magazine @inclovermagazine, Lou Archell @littlegreenshed @sisterhoodcamp, Giulia Balletti @giuliaballetti and Jo Yee @candidsbyjo for an Instagram workshop to motivate, teach and inspire you.

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A florists workshop hosted by one of our absolute favorites, the wonderful Kirstie of Ruby and the Wolf.

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An ideal workshop for creative business owners, bloggers or visual content makers wanting to learn how to organise and edit photographs to a professional level using Lightroom. This is an absolute beginners class that will teach you how to confidently organise, navigate & edit your photographs using Adobe Lightroom.

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Fiona Humberstone empowers entrepreneurs to create incredible brands. The author and publisher of two bestselling books on branding, teacher of creative and inspirational workshops and brand consultant to visionary entrepreneurs, Fiona is a creative catalyst.

Work on your ideas, experiment, think big, make plans, dream a while. So often we don't find time to work on the things that really matter. PLAY is new monthly{free}gathering at the Forge, for creatives, freelancers & independent companies.

Do you wish you could style your photos and capture them in a way that shows off the details, textures and colours? Do you want to discover ways to bring story into your images ? Do you have an “all singing all dancing” camera but struggle to get the most out of it ?