This workshop will provide you with an introduction to key concepts in intellectual property (IP) and help you apply them to your business.

During this workshop, led by our experienced business librarians, you will get an overview of all areas of intellectual property, with a focus on trade marks and copyright. This will include:

The main forms of IP

How to identify IP in your business

What trade marks and copyright protect

The value of IP for your business

Gain essential knowledge of tax, bookkeeping, and get expert advice on overcoming business challenges.

Strengthen your business with key strategies for marketing, sales, and building a balanced business.

Join us at the St George's Centre for day two of the Start-up and Grow programme where we will be focusing on marketing, sales, and building your business in a balanced way.

Build a strong foundation for your business with essential strategies for planning, cash-flow forecasting and pricing.

Join us at the St George's Centre for day one of the Start-up and Grow programme where we will be focusing on business planning and financial strategy to get your business off to a solid start.

Get ready to stomp that dance floor with Peter Flockhart from London’s Cactus Club as he introduces us to the welcoming world of country and western dancing and its unique place in the international LGBTQ+ community. 

With a particular emphasis on line dancing,  Peter will teach a mix of older dances that have stood the test of time and popular new line dances. 

Join Jaivant Patel, the charismatic Artistic Director of multi-award winning Jaivant Patel Company in conversation with Hannah Robertshaw (Yorkshire Dance). Jaivant will share his artistic vision, choreographic journey, creative influences and the stories behind his current and previous work. 

Join AURA for a workshop of self-discovery transforming personal memories into artistic expression.   

This interactive workshop invites self-reflection and discovery, tapping into personal experiences and memories before transforming these into creative expressions using movement, words and materials to break down and reimagine who we are.  

Join Alicia Meehan for this interactive workshop inspired by her latest work, What Adult Am I? Through movement, text, props, storytelling and creative tasks, Alicia and collaborator Lucy Harries invite you to explore themes of adulthood, societal conditioning, queer narratives and the freedom to be your unapologetic self. 

Join unapologetic Gujarati queer dancemaker Jaivant Patel, for a movement workshop unpacking notions of gender and challenging heteronormative constructs in contemporary society.