Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Community Arts Management (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits39
- Units in this qualification39
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Assist in developing, delivering and evaluating projectsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the development of aims and objectives for a project
- Contribute to the tracking and monitoring of a project
- Evaluate the success of a project
Assist in pitching for community arts workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assist with the preparation of a pitch
- Understand the importance of meeting the criteria and needs of funding bodies or commissioners
- Contribute to a pitch for community arts work
Assist in securing funding for community arts projectsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know potential sources of funding/income streams for the organisation
- Assist in the completion of funding applications
- Assist in the construction of an income and expenditure budget
Assist with a cross art form collaborative projectReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how different fields within the arts sector can meet the needs and interests of communities
- Work collabouratively with others in a research programme to create a cross art form project
- Work collabouratively with others to support the project delivery and evaluation
Assist with incidents and emergency proceduresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational procedures for dealing with incidents and emergencies
- Understand roles and responsibilities in dealing with an incident or emergency
- Assist in dealing with incidents or emergency
Assisting with daily financial issuesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain accurate and up to date financial records
- Follow company policy in relation to purchase orders , petty cash, floats and per diems
Balance Business Needs and Personal LifeReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Review business and private life priorities
- Achieve a work-life balance
- Manage expectations and obtain positive support in balancing business needs and personal life
Carry Out Plans for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement plans in a business
- Monitor business plans
- Evaluate and revise business plans
Carry out Banking for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types of banking facilities available for a business
- Open and operate a bank account for a business
- Monitor the operation of a business bank account
Check what Customers Need from a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research a market to identify the customers for the business
- Analyse markets and customer needs
- Align customer needs to business targets
Complying with relevant legal and ethical frameworksReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal and regulatory, requirements that impact on community organisations
- Understand own organisation’s culture
- Develop and maintain policies and procedures that will ensure compliance to own organisation’s legal and ethical framework
Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for a workplace risk assessment.
- Identify hazards in the workplace
- Conduct a risk assessment of the workplace.
- Review risk assessment.
- Know the employers responsibility for risk assessments as required by current legislation.
Contribute to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adultsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand their organisation’s policies, procedures and practices for safe working with children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
Dealing with conflictReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how conflicts can arise and how they are commonly resolved.
- Understand what attitudes and behaviours help when dealing with conflict.
- Understand employee rights in the place of work and recognise unacceptable behaviour.
Decide on a Business LocationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the factors affecting the location of a business
- Evaluate different business location for a business
- Identify a location which will meet the needs of a business
Define the Product or Service of a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Define the product or service of a business
- Charge the right price for the product or service of a business
- Set targets for sales and distribution of the product or service of a business
Generating ideas for community arts projectsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Originate ideas for community arts projects
- Develop ideas for community arts projects
- Pitch ideas for community arts projects to funders and stakeholders
Giving and Receiving FeedbackReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about constructive feedback
- Understand skills required to give and receive feedback
- Give and receive feedback
- Analyse own skills in giving and receiving feedback
Keep Financial RecordsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of financial records in running a business
- Understand how financial information is recorded in a business
- Select an accounts management system to support running a business
- Review the effectiveness of an accounts management system for a business
Keep up to date with developments in the artsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to carry out research to keep up to date with developments in the arts
- Understand how to present clear and accurate information.
- Understand how to develop networks
- Keep up to date with developments in own organisation and sector
Keeping Up to Date with Current Legislation in a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with current legal requirements in running a business
- Set terms and conditions in a business agreements and contracts that meet legal requirements
Manage Own Time and Work EffectivenessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate own work effectiveness
- Set targets to improve own time management skills
- Monitor time management skills and own work effectiveness
Manage and market own freelance servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Market own services
- Manage own performance
- Manage own systems, accounts and records
- Manage own contracts
Manage own performance in a business environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan and prioritise work and be accountable to others
- Understand how to behave in a way that supports effective working
- Plan, prioritise and be accountable for own work
- Behave in a way that supports effective working
Obtain Support for a Business IdeaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types of support available for the development of a business idea
- Plan how to obtain support for a business idea
- Present a business idea to internal and external stakeholders of a business
Order products and servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify, select and negotiate the supply of products and services
- Understand organisational requirements and policies for the ordering and supply of products and services
- Understand how to monitor, evaluate and improve procedures for the ordering and supply of products and services
- Follow organisational procedures for the ordering and supply of products and services
- Maintain relationships with suppliers of products and services and deal with problems
- Monitor, evaluate and make recommendations to improve the ordering and supply of produc
Plan How to Let Customers Know About Products or ServicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Review the market for the products or services of a business
- Produce a plan for marketing the products or services of a business
- Plan regular monitoring and reviewing of marketing performance of a business
Review the Skills a Business NeedsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess what skills are needed in a business
- Address skills gaps in order to meet the needs of a business
Seek Advice and Help for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify sources of advice and help available for a business
- Obtain advice and help for a business
- Review the effectiveness of advice and help obtained for a business
Supervise a team in a business environmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and benefits of team work
- Understand the purpose of communication in teams, and how to do so
- Understand the purpose of planning work with teams, and how to do so
- Understand the value of people in a team and how to respect and support them
- Understand the purpose and benefits of assessing and evaluating the work of a team and how to do so
- Supervise a team
- Assess, evaluate and improve the work of a team
Support marketing activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand marketing principles and the importance of branding and corporate identity in marketing.
- Identify the target audience and desired outcomes of marketing activity.
- Support the preparation, costing and implementation of an ongoing marketing plan.
- Support the production of marketing materials.
- Collect and analyse data to inform future marketing actions.
Support the organisation of creative or cultural events or exhibitionsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Support the planning and preparation of events and exhibitions
- Support the operation of events and exhibitions
- Provide information to support the evaluation of events and exhibitions
Supporting public relation activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of maintaining public relations
- Work with others to maintain public relations
- Understand how to develop good working relationships with customers and stakeholders
- Work with customers and stakeholders to maintain public relations
Understand how copyright law applies to own organisationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how copyright law affects the use of materials
- Understand how copyright law applies to own organisation
Understand how to meet and satisfy customer needsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to determine future projects or services
- Understand the approaches used to market and promote new projects or services
- Understand how to gain feedback on customer satisfaction
Understanding the core knowledge needed by those who work with children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective communication and engagement with children, young people and their families/carers
- Understand the development of children and young people
- Understand the importance of safeguarding children and young people
- Understand the types of transitions affecting children and young people
- Understand the nature and importance of their role in multi-agency and integrated working in meeting the needs of children and young people
- Understand the importance of information sharing
Understanding the core knowledge needed by those who work with children and young people, and its impactReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to promote effective communication and engagement with children, young people and their families/carers
- Understand the development of, and the impact of this upon, children and young people
- Understand the importance of safeguarding children and young people, and associated responsibilities and procedures
- Understand how to support children and young people through transitions, and circumstances requiring specialist support
- Understand sources of information regarding individual children, young people and families/carers, and the importance of effective information sharing
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Undertaking mentoring in the workplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and organise formal workplace mentoring sessions
- Undertake at least six hours of formal workplace mentoring
- Summarise and analyse a period of formal mentoring within the workplace using feedback
Work effectively with other people in a creative and cultural contextReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop effective working relationships with others
- Work effectively with others
- Seek, give and respond to feedback
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Assist in administering the floats and petty cash of a production
- Deal with actual and potential conflict situations
- Develop Ideas for Arts Projects and Live Events
- Develop preferred supplier relationships for your design business
- Ensure arts projects and live events are legally, ethically and socially compliant
- Maintain the Knowledge and Contacts Required for Your Work
- Support activities which improve public relations within a creative and cultural organisation
- Support cross art form collaboration projects and live events
Where this can lead
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
Your journey starts here by mastering the fundamentals. We're investing in you because we believe in building our talent from the ground up. With dedication and a willingness to learn, this role can be the launchpad for a truly impactful career in keeping people and organisations safe.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Community Arts Management (QCF)
39 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Assist in developing, delivering and evaluating projects
- Assist in pitching for community arts work
- Assist in securing funding for community arts projects
- Assist with a cross art form collaborative project
- Assist with incidents and emergency procedures
- Assisting with daily financial issues
and 33 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.