Events Management – Extend Option

Please note: This course is one of our Extend Options designed to be combined with other A Level programmes or BTEC Extended Certificate courses to make up a full timetable. If you are planning to study an A Level programme at Exeter College you will need to enrol on a four element programme, and cannot apply for this course on it’s own.

Why do this course?

This course offers you the unique opportunity to gain practical experience in planning, organising, marketing and promoting a music event to a live audience.

Have you ever wanted to know what it takes to stage a successful public event?
Would you like to develop your organisational and communication skills?
Do you want to improve your digital marketing skills and learn how to find and market a product to an audience?
Develop or improve your growth mindset?

Staging an event requires a firm understanding of the experience you are selling, finding an audience to sell to and effectively communicating the benefits your offer will provide for your audience.

What will it involve?

How to find an audience and convert them to customers
How to use productivity software
Strategic thinking
Digital Marketing techniques
Learn how to use productivity software
Use content marketing platforms to communicate your offer to your audience
How to manage data effectively
Strategic Marketing – Learn how to create an effective digital media marketing campaign for your event
Stage a live music event

How might it help in the future?

This course will provide you with the opportunity to gain real world experience as an event manager and develop a strategic productivity mindset. You will acquire organisational and communication skills such as calendar management, collaborating as part of a team, creative problem-solving and meeting deadlines. These sustainable skills are transferrable across all subject areas, are highly valued in the job market and will boost the desirability of your CV and UCAS application.