We bring the training to your Manchester office
Private social media training for one Manchester team at a time, delivered in your own office on your own channels. Half day £1,200, full day £1,800 for up to six people, excluding VAT. No public cohorts, no shared room, and the work gets done on your accounts rather than a case study.
Where do you run social media training in Manchester?
In your building. We do not have a Manchester classroom and we are not going to pretend otherwise, because for private team training a classroom is the part you do not need. We travel from Leeds, which is fifty minutes on the train, and the day runs on your machines with your own accounts open on the screen.
That covers Manchester city centre, Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Bolton and the rest of Greater Manchester. If your team is split across sites we can run it online instead, on Teams or Zoom, in shorter blocks so nobody sits through six hours of screen.
What does the day cover?
Nothing is fixed until we have spoken. The scoping call decides what your team actually needs, and these are the blocks most Manchester teams pick from.
Strategy and planning
Turning objectives into a channel plan and a content calendar somebody will still be following in March.
Content that earns attention
Writing, filming and editing for the feed, built around what your audience actually stops for.
Paid social
Campaign structure, audiences and budget, with your own ad account open on the screen.
Company page, employee advocacy and the difference between marketing and sales use. Usually the most requested block.
Measurement
The handful of numbers worth reporting, and how to build the report without inventing reach.
AI in the workflow
Where it saves time and where it costs you, including brand voice and disclosure. See AI training.
How much does social media training in Manchester cost?
| Format | Length | Group size | Price excluding VAT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private half day at your office | 3 hours | Up to six | £1,200 |
| Private full day at your office | 6 hours | Up to six | £1,800 |
| Live online | Split into blocks | Up to six | From £1,200 |
| Larger teams and multi site | Agreed | Seven or more | Quoted |
For a team of six that is around £200 to £300 a head. Open courses in Manchester typically run £350 to £600 per person for a day, so six people on a public course costs more and gets you somebody else’s examples. Travel from Leeds is included and there is no separate expenses line.
You are a Leeds agency. Why book you for Manchester?
Fair question, so here is the straight answer. If you want a scheduled seat in a Manchester classroom next Tuesday, book a Manchester training centre. That is a different product and they do it well.
What we do is bring a working PR, social and content agency into your building for a day. The person at the front runs live client campaigns rather than teaching from a deck, the examples are current because we made them, and the work happens on your accounts. Fifty minutes on a train is not the part that decides whether the training was any good.
What does a day actually look like?
| Time | Block | What comes out of it |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Your channels on screen, honestly reviewed | An agreed list of what is working and what to stop |
| 10:30 | Audience and positioning | Who you are actually talking to, written down |
| 11:30 | Content that earns attention | Posts drafted in the room, not homework |
| 13:30 | The block you chose at scoping | Paid, LinkedIn, video or AI, depending on the team |
| 15:00 | Measurement and reporting | A report format you will actually keep using |
| 16:00 | Ninety day plan | A calendar, owners and dates before anybody leaves |
Half day sessions keep the review, one chosen block and the plan. That combination is what most teams need first.
Who is it for?
In house marketing teams
Marketing managers and executives running social alongside everything else, who want the time back.
Communications and PR teams
Press offices and comms managers using social for stakeholders as much as customers.
Whole organisations
Where social is spread across service teams and nobody has agreed how it works. Common in the public sector.
Mixed ability rooms are the normal case. We have run days where half the team posts daily and half had never opened the ad account.
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, 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.
We work with brands across the North West and Yorkshire and we buy social advertising for clients continuously, so the account we open on the day is not the first one we have seen. Where a specialist is needed alongside me, they come to the room rather than being described in the third person.
Private training or an open course in Manchester?
Both are legitimate. They solve different problems, and it is worth being clear which one you have.
| Open course in Manchester | Private day with us | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost for six people | Roughly £2,100 to £3,600 | £1,200 half day, £1,800 full day |
| Whose examples | Generic, shared with the room | Your channels, your competitors |
| Confidentiality | Strangers in the room | Your team only |
| Dates | Their schedule | Yours |
| Travel | Six people across the city | Nobody leaves the building |
| Certificate and CPD points | Usually included | Certificate yes, CPD points no |
If somebody needs CPD points on their record, an accredited open course is the right answer and we will tell you so. If a team needs to be better at social media by next month, private training does that faster.
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 the North.
The agency behind the training has won more than thirty industry awards for campaign work. That matters here only because the case studies used on the day are ours, which means we can tell you what went wrong on them as well as what worked. Trainers who have only ever taught cannot do that.
Social media training in Manchester, questions we get asked
How much does social media training cost in Manchester?
Half day £1,200 and full day £1,800 for up to six people, excluding VAT, priced by the group rather than per person. That works out around £200 to £300 a head. Open courses in Manchester generally run £350 to £600 per person, so for a team of six private training costs less and uses your own accounts.
Do you have a training venue in Manchester?
No, and for private team training you do not need one. We come to your office anywhere in Greater Manchester, or run it live online. If you would rather not host it we can arrange a room, but most teams prefer their own.
How far in advance do we need to book?
Two to three weeks is comfortable. It gives us time for the scoping call and to look at your channels properly before the day, which is most of what makes it useful.
Can you train more than six people?
Yes, up to twelve, though the hands on exercises get thinner past six. Larger teams are usually better served by two sessions, and we price that so it is not punitive.
Is the training tailored or off the shelf?
Tailored. The scoping call decides the blocks, and the exercises use your channels, your competitors and your objectives. There is no standard deck that gets shown to everybody.
Do you cover paid social as well as organic?
Yes, and it is one of the more requested blocks. We buy paid social for clients continuously, so we work in your live ad account rather than a demo one. There is a dedicated paid social media training page if that is the main need.
What about AI?
It comes up in every session now. We cover where it helps and where it costs you time, and there is a full day on it at AI training for marketing and communications teams.
Do delegates get anything to take away?
The slides, the work produced in the room and a ninety day plan with owners and dates. The plan is the bit that matters, because it is what stops a good day evaporating by the following month.
Do you train agencies as well as brands?
Yes. Agency teams in Manchester book us reasonably often, usually for paid social or LinkedIn. Say so when you enquire and we will build the day around client work.
Where else do you deliver?
Leeds
Our home city. See social media training in Leeds.
London
Regular, and travel is included. See social media training in London.
Anywhere else
We travel across the United Kingdom, or deliver 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. Delivered at your Manchester office or online.
Delivered across Greater Manchester and the North West, alongside Leeds and every social media course we run. Last reviewed August 2026.
