Discounts and Funding
Discounts
The following discounts apply to our open (classroom-based) courses. Help with funding for our distance learning courses is also available, but it is more limited.
Charity Discount
Get 10% off open course bookings if your organisation is a registered charity.
Not to be used in conjunction with any of our other discount plans.
New Recruit Discount
If at the time you confirm your booking (a) you have been working in a publishing company for six months or fewer and (b) this is your first publishing job, you can get 10% off your open course booking.
This replaces the voucher scheme for newcomers to publishing. Vouchers already issued remain valid but cannot be used in conjunction with this discount.
Not to be used in conjunction with any of our other discount plans.
Team Discount
Book more than one person from your organisation on the same open course, on the same date, and you can benefit from our team discount plan:
- 10% discount for 2nd and 3rd delegates
- 15% discount for 4th delegate.
All team members must be booked at the same time to qualify.
Early Booking Discount
Confirm a booking on any of our residential courses at least eight weeks before the course start date and you'll qualify for a 10% discount. Residential courses are flagged in the course descriptions with the image shown so you can spot them easily.
This discount can be used in conjunction with the team booking discount described above, up to a maximum of 20% per delegate.
Small Business Discount
To help small businesses we offer a standard 10% discount on each open course booking. Small businesses are considered to be those with 20 or fewer employees and which have their own cost centre.
Not to be used in conjunction with any of our other discount plans.
Discount for Freelances
If you work on a freelance or independent basis, and are funding your training yourself, you can claim a 10% discount on any of our open courses.
Not to be used in conjunction with any of our other discount plans.
Discounts for students, recent graduates who have yet to find work and publishing staff who have been made redundant
The Publishing Training Centre occasionally offers discretionary 50% discounts on public courses to these groups.
Please ask for your discount when you book as discounts cannot be given retrospectively.
Funding
The Unwin Charitable Trust Grant Scheme for Freelances and Small Publishers
The Unwin Charitable Trust (UCT) has set up a grant scheme to help small companies and freelances pay for training courses offered by the Publishing Training Centre (PTC). The scheme is administered by PTC.
Grant amount: £150 per person
Eligibility:
- Applicants must have been freelancing, or trading as a small publishing company for a minimum of two years.
- Companies must have no more than 10 staff, including part-time and directors, and not be part of a larger or umbrella organisation.
Restrictions:
- To be used on Publishing Training Centre (PTC) open courses only.
- Grants limited to one per individual in a 12 month period, starting 1 November 2006. Companies are limited to two grants in the same period, but these cannot be for the same person.
- Grants cannot be allocated once the invoice is raised.
- Unwin Charitable Trust (UCT) grants cannot be used in conjunction with any other grant or assisted funding scheme administered by PTC.
How to apply:
- Make a provisional booking on any PTC open course, at least 21 days before the course start and request a UCT £150 Grant at the time of booking. PTC staff may question enquirers to ensure that they fulfil the criteria.
- Return the course registration form to PTC as soon as possible, to confirm your place on the course.
- You'll be invoiced for the course fee (incorporating 10% small company or freelance discount) minus the £150 grant, approximately three weeks before the course start.
BTBS The Book Trade Charity
BTBS offers funding to people who have worked in publishing or bookselling but are currently unemployed. Call freephone 0808 100 2304.
Government information on financial assistance
For information on financial assistance to support your learning, please visit www.direct.gov.uk/adultlearning or contact 0800 100 900.
Arts Council England funding for small literary publishers
Note that funding under this scheme will be unavailable until further notice, since all funds allocated to it have been used.
If you work for a publisher that:
- publishes mainly literary works
- employs no more than 20 people
- is wholly independent
then you may be entitled to subsidised training at the Publishing Training Centre under a scheme sponsored by Arts Council England. The total fund is limited and once it runs out no further funding will be available. The scheme applies to our open (classroom-based) courses and distance learning (but not online) courses.
If you qualify for funding, you will need to pay 24% of the course price (excluding VAT) plus VAT on 80% of the full course price (where the course attracts VAT). For example, if you booked on a one-day course that's normally £349+VAT, you would pay £83.76plus VAT of £48.86, giving a total of £132.62.
Funding under this scheme can't be combined with any of our discounts.
If you'd like to apply, please email Annette Jeffers (annette@bookhouse.co.uk). Questions regarding eligibility will be referred to Arts Council England.