Intensive Career Change Courses

Important Information: Whilst social distancing is in place we are limiting this course to 8 places only (instead of 12). Should we have to cancel a course due to government guidelines we will offer you a transfer or a full refund.

Are you ready for a change of career and looking for a creative alternative? Floristry is a wonderful career with the benefit that you can work from home, freelance for other florists or setup your own floristry shop. With no two days the same, life as a florist is a fantastic life/work balance.

At The Cambridge Flower School we have first hand experience of changing career. It is armed with this knowledge of what is required to build a successful floristry business (including all the important elements such as insurance, marketing your new business and making the all important profit) that we ensure that you leave the course armed with all the information you require to build your own business and a career in floristry.

Floristry Career Course

Course Dates : | 15th - 19th March 2021 (fully booked) | 19th - 23rd April 2021 (6 places available) | 10th - 14th May 2021 (4 places available) | 28th June - 2nd July (8 places available)

Our Floristry Career Course is designed as a foundation for those looking to build a new career in commercial floristry. It will give you the skills to start your own floristry business, whether working from home or your own retail florist shop.

You will gain both practical experience of commercial floral design and what you will need to know to set up your own floristry business. From buying flowers, costing (because you need to make profit), to setting up your own website, product design and marketing you will leave full of ideas and inspiration.

We provide absolutely everything you need to complete the course including a starter toolbox, Cambridge Flower School Apron and comprehensive course manual covering all the theory elements . All the flowers, foliage and sundry items are included and you get to take home absolutely everything you create.

Each day you will learn a different aspect including gift floristry, funeral, corporate and an introduction to wedding floristry.

Wedding Career Course

Course dates: 17th - 21st May 2021

The Cambridge Flower School Wedding Career Course is perfect if you want to set up your own wedding floristry business or expand from general floristry into this specialised area. Wedding floristry is a vast topic and this course will provide a foundation to develop designs, work with clients & ensure that you have a profitable professional business moving forward.

This course is suitable for complete beginners or those with a limited knowledge of floristry having attended general floristry courses or self-taught. For students who have attended The Cambridge Flower School Floristry Career Course, the Wedding Career Course will ensure that you have an extensive repertoire of skills to deal with a wide range of bridal and venue requirements.

Many of our students completing wedding courses at The Cambridge Flower School now run successful businesses in the UK and across the world. As part of this course and to enable you to start to build your own portfolio our own professional photographer will provide guidance and help on taking impressive photographs with your own camera (so important to showcase your designs!).

The Wedding Career Course is held four times during the year. This is the perfect addition to the Floristry Career Course. Each course covers completely different topics.

Career Course Brochure

If you would like to receive a copy of our Career Brochure or course details for any of our courses in the post please email us info@thecambridgeflowerschool.co.uk with your name and postal address.

You can also view our brochure online by clicking here.

If you would like to talk us about any of our courses please call us on 01223 655661.

Bookings

You can book online or call 01223 655661.