Social media marketing workshops delivered on site, at your offices, built around your brief
A facilitated working session rather than a lecture. Roughly a third is taught content and the rest is your team working on your own channels, with the output finished before anybody leaves the room.
On site anywhere in the UK, at our Leeds studio, or live online. Half day £1,200, full day £1,800, up to six people, excluding VAT.
Workshop or course? The difference matters
People use the words interchangeably and they are not the same thing. A course teaches a syllabus. A workshop produces something.
What a course looks like
- A fixed syllabus, delivered the same way to everybody.
- Mostly presentation, with questions at the end.
- Generic examples, because the room is strangers.
- You leave with notes and, usually, a certificate.
What our workshops look like
- An agenda written from your brief, for your team only.
- About a third taught, the rest facilitated working time.
- Your channels, your analytics and your buyer on screen.
- You leave with finished work and a plan with named owners.
If nothing is produced in the room, it was a course, whatever it was called on the invoice.
How an on-site workshop works
One. You send the brief
Who is in the room, what they do now, and what has to be different afterwards. A paragraph is enough to start.
Two. A thirty minute call
We ask the awkward questions, look at your channels beforehand, and tell you honestly if a workshop is the wrong answer.
Three. A written outline
You get the agenda and a fixed price before you commit. If the shape is wrong we change it, at no cost.
Four. We come to you
At your offices anywhere in the UK. We bring everything except the room, the screen and the coffee.
Five. Work gets finished
Rewritten profiles, drafted content, a fortnight in the calendar with owners and dates, agreed before people leave.
Six. Follow up
A month of email support, then a check in at ninety days to ask what actually happened.
What we build the workshop around
Every workshop is assembled from the subjects below rather than pulled off a shelf. Most teams combine two or three across a day.
- Strategy. Audit, audiences, objectives, content pillars and measurement. The most requested workshop we run, and the one that produces a document.
- Content. Pillars, formats, planning and a calendar the team can sustain.
- A single platform. LinkedIn for sales, LinkedIn for marketing, Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook or YouTube.
- SEO and AI search. Search, AI Overviews and the citation work that decides whether you get quoted.
- Paid social. Budgets, targeting, creative and measurement.
- PR and crisis. Earning coverage, and what to do when something goes wrong in public.
- Influencer marketing. Vetting, contracts, usage rights and the UK disclosure rules.
- AI tools and governance. Where generative tools genuinely help, and the disclosure line your organisation should draw.
- Policy and employee advocacy. Usually a sixty minute all-staff session rather than a full day.
Not sure which? The full list of courses has a one-line description of each, and the scoping call sorts it in ten minutes.
Why on site beats an open course
We do not run public courses, and this is the reason rather than a shortage of demand.
- Nothing has to be translated afterwards. The examples are your accounts, so nobody has to work out how it applies on Monday.
- People say what they actually think. Teams talk honestly about internal blockers in their own building, and never in a room of strangers.
- The whole team gets the same version. Sending two people to a public course and expecting them to cascade it almost never works.
- You can put confidential material on screen. Real numbers, real plans, under an NDA if you want one.
- It is cheaper above three people. Public courses charge per seat. We charge for the day.
- No travel and no lost days. Six people going to London costs more in time and rail fares than the workshop does.
Cost, and the arithmetic against a public course
| Format | Duration | Price, ex VAT | Per head at six |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full day workshop | 09:30 until 16:15 | £1,800 | £300 |
| Half day workshop | Three and a half hours | £1,200 | £200 |
| Additional attendee | Either format | £250 per person | — |
| Multi week programme | Several sessions with work between | Quoted on scope | — |
UK public courses are commonly £350 to £1,495 a seat. Six people at £500 each is £3,000, plus travel, plus six days out of the business. The same six on site with us is £1,800 with nobody leaving the building.
Procurement
We invoice on purchase order, complete supplier onboarding forms, sign mutual confidentiality agreements as standard, and hold the insurance and policy documents most public sector and enterprise frameworks ask for. Raise it at the scoping call and it will be done before the date.
Travel outside Yorkshire is charged at cost and agreed in writing before booking. Venue hire, if you would rather not use your own offices, is arranged separately. There is nothing else.
Who runs the workshops
I am Chris Norton and I facilitate most of these 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, and I have been a CIPR member since I was a student.
Where a workshop goes deep into paid media, search or creator work, the person who does that job day to day comes with me rather than being described in the third person.
Teams we have run workshops for
Training and campaigns delivered for the NHS, universities, local authorities, charities, law firms and B2B manufacturers, alongside the brands below.
What the work has produced
Martin House Children’s Hospice. The Build produced 219 placements and 161.4 million reach, and won the Charity and Not for Profit Award at the PRCA DARE Awards 2026.
Freeths. A LinkedIn Live programme drew 1,100 attendees and around 950 leads from a single sequence.
Astonish. 115 pieces of coverage in six months, 90 per cent carrying backlinks.
What our clients say
We hold an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 from 18 verified client reviews on Clutch.
“We were impressed by their depth of knowledge in a rapidly changing environment.”
Kian Scott-Loach, Head of Digital, Terrence Higgins Trust, February 2026
“They’re a bunch of friendly people who feel like a natural extension of the marketing team.”
David Sharples, Communications Manager, Black Sheep Brewery, January 2025
“When Prohibition says they’ll do something by a certain date, they get it done.”
Marketing Manager, Feather Down Farms, May 2025
PRCA DARE Awards 2026 winners. Prohibition has won more than 45 industry awards and is part of the Worldcom Public Relations Group, with 110 offices across 45 countries.
Where we deliver
We are based in Leeds and deliver on site across Yorkshire at client offices in Leeds, Sheffield, York, Bradford, Harrogate and Hull. We travel nationwide, regularly to Manchester and London, and we run live online workshops for teams spread across several sites.
For hybrid we cap the remote group at eight, because above that the working exercises stop functioning for the people who are not in the room.
Questions we get asked
What is a social media marketing workshop?
A facilitated working session rather than a lecture. Around a third is taught content and the rest is your team working on your own channels with guidance, so the output exists before anybody leaves.
Will you come to our offices?
Yes, anywhere in the UK. We bring everything except the room, a screen and the coffee. Travel outside Yorkshire is charged at cost and agreed in writing before you book.
Do you run public or open workshops?
No. Every session is private to one organisation. A public workshop has to be pitched at the average person in the room, which is exactly what makes most of them forgettable.
How many people can attend?
The price covers up to six, with additional attendees at £250 each. Above about sixteen the working exercises break down and we would suggest two sessions.
Can we combine two subjects in one day?
Often, yes. Strategy and content work well together. Trying to add paid advertising to a beginners day does not, and we will tell you rather than take the booking.
What do we need to provide?
A room, a screen, working wifi and access to your own analytics and accounts. Somebody in the room should have admin rights to whatever we are working on.
Can you sign an NDA?
Yes, and we usually do. The session involves your analytics, your plans and sometimes commercially sensitive material, so a mutual agreement suits both sides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. We invoice on purchase order, complete supplier onboarding forms, and hold the insurance and policy documents most public sector and enterprise frameworks require.
How far ahead do we need to book?
Three to four weeks is typical, mainly to allow for the scoping call and building the agenda. We have delivered inside a week when a team needed it.
What is your cancellation policy?
Rescheduling more than fourteen days out costs nothing. Inside fourteen days we ask for fifty per cent, and inside seventy two hours the full fee applies. We are reasonable about genuine emergencies.
Is there a certificate?
No. We are not an accredited body and will not pretend to be. You leave with finished work and a plan, which we think is the better souvenir.
What happens after the workshop?
A month of email support as the plan meets reality, and a check in at ninety days to ask what actually happened, whether the answer is good or not.
Want an AI session as the workshop?
The most requested workshop this year is not a channel at all. It is a facilitated half day that ends with a written set of rules for AI use, run as the AI policy workshop. It runs the same way as everything else on this page, in your building with your own material.
Send us your brief
Half day £1,200, full day £1,800, up to six people, excluding VAT. On site UK wide, in Leeds, or online.
Last reviewed August 2026.
