A Leeds agency that trains Leeds teams
Private social media, content, PR, SEO and AI training for one Leeds team at a time, run by a working agency based in the city. Half day £1,200, full day £1,800 for up to six people, excluding VAT, at your office or ours. No public cohorts and no shared room.
Where do you run training in Leeds?
Usually in your office, because for private team training that is where the work is. Your accounts on your screens, your objectives on the wall, and nobody spends the morning travelling. That covers the city centre, Holbeck, Kirkstall, Headingley and out across West Yorkshire to Bradford, Wakefield, Harrogate and York.
If you would rather get the team out of the building we can arrange a room in the city centre instead, or run it live online in shorter blocks. We are based in Leeds ourselves, so there is no travel charge and no reason for a session to be squeezed into somebody’s train times.
What marketing training can you run in Leeds?
Five disciplines, all delivered by people who do the work for clients the rest of the week. Pick one for a day, or combine two across a longer session.
Social media
Strategy, content, paid social and measurement. The core of what we do. See social media strategy training.
Content marketing
Planning, producing and distributing content that earns attention. See content marketing training.
PR and communications
Media relations, storytelling and crisis. See PR training.
SEO and AI search
Ranking, and getting cited by AI answers rather than losing the click. See SEO and AI search training.
AI for marketing teams
Copilot, content, policy and the press office. See AI training.
Video and LinkedIn
Two of the most requested single day sessions. See video production training and LinkedIn training.
What we do not do. We do not run PPC, Google Ads, email marketing or Mailchimp training. If that is what you are after, a specialist digital training provider in Leeds will serve you better than we would, and we would rather say so now than take the booking.
How much does training in Leeds cost?
| Format | Length | Group size | Price excluding VAT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private half day, your office or ours | 3 hours | Up to six | £1,200 |
| Private full day, your office or ours | 6 hours | Up to six | £1,800 |
| Live online | Split into blocks | Up to six | From £1,200 |
| Larger teams and multi department | Agreed | Seven or more | Quoted |
Around £200 to £300 a head for a team of six. Open courses in Leeds typically run £350 to £600 per person for a day, so six people on a public course costs more and works through somebody else’s examples. There is no travel charge, because we are ten minutes away.
What does a day look like?
| Time | Block | What comes out of it |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Your channels and your numbers, honestly reviewed | An agreed list of what to keep doing and what to stop |
| 10:30 | Audience and positioning | Who you are talking to, written down and agreed |
| 11:30 | The main discipline you chose at scoping | Real work produced in the room |
| 13:30 | Second block, or deeper on the first | Paid, video, LinkedIn, PR or AI depending on the team |
| 15:00 | Measurement and reporting | A report format you will still be using in six months |
| 16:00 | Ninety day plan | Owners, dates and a calendar before anybody leaves |
Half days keep the review, one block and the plan. That is the combination most teams need first, and it is the most common booking.
Why does being a Leeds agency matter?
Because the examples are local and current. When we talk about what worked for a Yorkshire brand, we ran it. When we talk about what a Leeds journalist will and will not open, we sent it last week. Most training providers coming into the city are working from a national deck.
It also means the relationship does not end at five o’clock. Teams we have trained call us afterwards, and being twenty minutes away rather than three hours makes that a real thing rather than a line on a page.
Who runs the day?
I am Chris Norton and I run most of these sessions myself. I founded Prohibition, the PR, social and content agency behind this site, based in Leeds. I have worked in public relations for more than twenty years and I have been running training since 2009. I co-authored Share This Too, the social media handbook published by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Where a session needs a specialist alongside me, a paid social buyer or a video producer, they come to the room rather than being described in the third person.
Who have you trained?
Interflora, Barbour, Ella’s Kitchen, Lloyds Pharmacy, Watches of Switzerland, Savills, Transport for the North, Engie, Keepmoat Homes and Huthwaite among others, alongside universities, NHS organisations and local authorities across Yorkshire.
The agency behind the training has won more than thirty industry awards for campaign work. That matters here for one reason only. The case studies used on the day are ours, so we can tell you what went wrong on them as well as what worked.
Training in Leeds, questions we get asked
How much does marketing training cost in Leeds?
Half day £1,200 and full day £1,800 for up to six people, excluding VAT, priced by the group rather than per head. That is roughly £200 to £300 each. Open courses in Leeds usually run £350 to £600 per person, so for a team private training costs less and uses your own accounts.
Do you run digital marketing training in Leeds?
We run the parts of it we actually do for clients, which are social media, content marketing, PR, SEO and AI search. We do not run PPC, Google Ads, email marketing or Mailchimp training, and we will point you elsewhere rather than take that booking.
Do we come to you or do you come to us?
Whichever suits. Most teams host it, because the day works better with your own screens and nobody travelling. We can arrange a city centre room instead if you would rather get people out of the office.
How far in advance should we book?
Two to three weeks is comfortable. That leaves time for the scoping call and for us to look properly at your channels beforehand, which is most of what makes the day useful.
Can you train more than six people?
Up to twelve, though the practical exercises thin out past six. Larger teams usually do better with two sessions and we price that so it is not punitive.
Do you work with public sector organisations?
Regularly. Local authorities, NHS organisations and universities across Yorkshire, where social is often spread across service teams and nobody has agreed how it works. See local government training and higher education training.
Is it tailored or off the shelf?
Tailored. The scoping call sets the blocks and the exercises use your channels, your competitors and your objectives. There is no standard deck that everybody sees.
What do people take away?
The slides, the work produced in the room and a ninety day plan with owners and dates. The plan is the part that stops a good day evaporating by the following month.
Do you train agencies as well as brands?
Yes, and several Leeds agencies have booked us for their own teams. Tell us when you enquire and we will build the day around client work rather than brand work.
Where else do you deliver?
Manchester
Fifty minutes away and regular. See social media training in Manchester.
London
Travel included. See social media training in London.
Anywhere else
UK wide or live online. See every course we run.
Tell us who needs training and what they are stuck on
Half day £1,200, full day £1,800, up to six people, excluding VAT. At your Leeds office, ours, or online.
Delivered across Leeds, West Yorkshire and the North, alongside Manchester and every course we run. Last reviewed August 2026.
