Want to create a professional brand and eye-catching marketing materials with Canva, even if you're a beginner?

This practical, hands-on workshop will help you build a strong visual brand and create professional marketing materials using Canva. We’ll cover the essentials of Canva, setting up your brand colours and fonts, working with templates, creating social media graphics and marketing materials, and discovering time-saving features that make designing easier and more consistent.

Key learning outcomes

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Navigate Canva with confidence and understand the key tools and features.

• Know how to set up your consistent visual identity using your brand colours, fonts and logos.

• Design professional graphics for social media, presentations and marketing materials.

• Use templates and time-saving features to create content more efficiently.

• Apply simple design principles to make your content look polished and professional.

• Leave with practical skills that you can immediately apply in your business.

Target audience

This workshop is perfect for business owners, and anyone responsible for creating their own marketing materials. Whether you’re completely new to Canva or have been using it for a while and want to make better use of the platform, you’ll leave with practical skills and plenty of ideas to help your business stand out.

About the speaker

I’m Laura Goodsell, a Certified Canva Community trainer, Canva Creator and Canvassador. I help small business owners use Canva with confidence to create visuals that strengthen their branding, marketing, and everyday content.

I work closely with entrepreneurs to make Canva a practical part of their business toolkit, whether that’s building consistent branding, designing social media content, or creating visuals for launches, presentations, and promotions.

Through my memberships, courses, YouTube channel and in person and online workshops, I teach simple, effective design skills that save time, build professionalism, and help businesses connect more powerfully with their audience. I also design templates for Canva’s global library, giving millions of people access to ready-to-use, beautifully designed content.

P.S. Please bring your laptop to get the most out of the session.

You can also join Canva AI, Video & Content Creation workshop to be held on March 17th :

Canva AI, Video & Content Creation Tickets, Wednesday, 17 March 2027 • 10 AM - 1 PM | Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/canva-ai-video-content-creation-tickets-1999107645783?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true)

For enquires, e-mail us on bgevents@bizgateway.org.uk

These workshops are only open to businesses, sole traders, and SMEs operating in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.

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