Award achieved: ABC Awards and Certa Award Certificate of achievement at QLS Level 3
This course could help you set up on your own as an event planner or improve your skills if you work for someone else. The possibilities for enhancing your prospects are considerable with the knowledge you will gain from this comprehensive course, whichever route you choose.
Through the various units you will find out about the key aspects of planning a variety of events, from low-key personalised events to large corporate affairs, as well as looking at the specific requirements of religious and secular wedding planning.
Contents
Unit 1: Setting up in business
The ins and outs of organising your finances
Staffing
The legal stuff
Tax and how to deal with it
Health and Safety obligations for the event organiser
Food safety
How to deal with emergencies
Contracts etc.
Unit 2: Planning successful events
The initial meeting with clients
Planning your budget
Creating an atmosphere
Managing your venue
Different venues
Equipping the event
Suppliers and partners
Timelines
Communication
Evaluation
Organising the caterers
Unit 3: Corporate clients
Working with the corporate client
Different types of corporate events
Designing and planning a corporate event
Evaluation
The importance of attending to detail
Co-ordination
Registration
Choosing your venue
Conference planning etc.
Unit 4: Wedding planning
Working with the couple
Planning packages on offer
Planning your budget
The importance of attending to detail
Financial agreements
Religious weddings: what you need to know
Secular weddings
Civil partnerships
The venue
Keeping the guests happy
The logistics
Catering
Timelines
Remaining professional
The Event Planner Pro software will help you to organise your business with campaigns as well as organising multiple client events.
Key Points
Easy to use screens, including great online help
Create unlimited prospects and clients
A comprehensive suite of reports can be previewed, printed, or exported to PDF files to enable you to e-mail them
Use the Supplier Directory to maintain a list of suppliers that each of your clients can use, and these can easily be copied into your client databases
Produce a profit and loss figure for one of your clients or your entire business at a click of a button.
Advertising campaigns can be easily monitored to see how cost effective they are
All your information is stored on your computer and can be password protected for security
The backup facility makes saving your data simple
The software will run on Windows XP SP2, Vista and Windows 7
The Event Planner Pro software is split into two sections to enable you to manage your company, and manage your clients. We call these the Company Database and the Client Databases. The Company Database is used to manage your business with finances, diary and the supplier directory. The Client Databases includes facilities to manage all the information regarding your client’s event, for example, details of the venue, guest list, and their list of suppliers. There is no limit to the number of client events you can create and no monthly or additional costs, thereby making our software very cost effective.
Study Method
The course is designed for study by distance learning at work or at home. Students receive course manual, assignments and study guide plus tutor support by mail and email. You can start at any time and plan your studies over a period of up to one year from the time of enrolment.
Course Duration
Students may register at any time and have a full year to complete their studies. The course will take around 100 hours of study to complete.
Assessment
Each unit is followed by a written assignment (comprising a portfolio of evidence of learning), which is submitted and then marked by your tutor.
Course Endorsement
At the end of this course successful learners will be given the option to receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).
The course has been endorsed under the Quality Licence Scheme. This means that Kendal Publishing Ltd has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.
The course itself has been designed by Kendal Publishing Ltd to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. The Quality Licence Scheme endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.
The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group , a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.
The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through our awarding organisations we have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. We are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.
Our knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables us to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.
*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales
