Hands-on Canva Training in Consett: Small Group Workshop

Are you looking to get more out of Canva for your business, but not sure where to start—or how to move past the basics?

I am hosting an intimate, hands-on Canva training sessions at our Derwentside Business Centre starting October 2026.

Master Canva: Design for Your Business

Canva is a versatile, web-based graphic design platform that simplifies the creation of professional-quality visuals, documents, and marketing materials. It is particularly useful for business owners because its intuitive drag-and-drop interface allows you to design everything from social media posts and presentations to detailed business reports without needing advanced design skills. By offering a vast library of templates, fonts, and media assets, Canva helps you maintain a consistent brand identity and efficiently produce polished content tailored to your business needs.

To ensure everyone receives tailored, direct support, places are strictly limited to just 4 people per session.

What to expect:
Duration: 2 hours (10:00am – 12:00pm)

Investment: £75 per person (Introductory offer)

Format: Interactive and practical—you will be working directly on your own designs and account during the session.

Location: Consett Innovation Centre, Derwentside Business Centre, Consett, DH8 5XP

Upcoming Workshop Dates;

Spaces are limited to four per session. Please select your preferred date to book your place:
• Thursday 15th October (10:00am – 12:00pm)
• Thursday 19th November (10:00am – 12:00pm)
• Thursday 21st January 2027 (10:00am – 12:00pm)

What We Will Cover

This session is designed to get you confident with the essentials of Canva so you can start creating clean, professional assets for your business without the frustration.

Navigating the Dashboard & Workspace: Understanding layout types, document sizes, and starting projects correctly. Organising your workspace, folders, and uploaded assets.

Setting Up Your Brand Kit: Uploading your logo, setting your brand colour palette, and defining core fonts so every design stays consistent.

Working with Layouts & Elements: Choosing and customising templates so they look unique to your business rather than off-the-shelf. Selecting, resizing, and alignment techniques for text, imagery, frames, and icons.

Formatting Text & Imagery: Managing line height, spacing, and font hierarchy for clear readability. Working with photos, crop tools, background removal, and standard visual adjustments.

Saving & Exporting the Right Formats: Knowing when to export as PNG, JPEG, PDF Print, or PDF Standard for digital vs. print use.

How It Works

Before the workshop, you will complete a quick questionnaire. This allows me to understand your current skill level, your primary goals, and the specific types of graphics (e.g., social posts, flyers, documents) you need to create. The session is tailored directly around the answers provided.

• What You Need to Bring

• Your laptop and charger.

Access to your Canva account (a free account is fine, though we will cover Pro features where relevant).

By the end of the two hours, you will have set up your core brand assets and created reusable templates to streamline your ongoing marketing work. With only four seats available per session, booking early is essential.