Investment & scope

Brave Day’s work is bespoke — shaped around your context, your people, and what’s realistic for your team to hold.
This page gives clear starting points, plus a sense of what “scope” actually means in practice (so we can avoid guesswork and get to a sensible plan quickly).

If you’re commissioning work across health, education, public sector, social enterprise or culture - and you need storytelling that’s ethical, strategic and actually usable - you’re in the right place.

Most Brave Day commissions are designed as programmes of work rather than single sessions.
This allows space for reflection, ethical decision-making and learning to be applied in practice.

One-off workshops or short scoping sessions can serve as entry points, but they are most effective when they lead into a wider, paced approach.

Working together

Quick starting points

These are typical starting ranges for 2026 commissioning conversations:

Storytelling strategy & consultancy

From £1,200

Training & capacity-building

From £1,500

Production coordination / executive producer roles

From £2,500 - depending on scope

Longer-term partnerships, programme-level work and cross-sector collaborations are scoped collaboratively.

Not sure what you need yet? Start with a 30-minute call

What affects cost?

Pricing isn’t just about time - it’s about complexity and responsibility.

Your quote will usually reflect things like:

  • Scale: one team vs multiple partners across a system

  • Sensitivity: safeguarding, trauma-informed practice, participant support

  • Stakeholders: how many voices need to be included and aligned

  • Decision-making: clarity vs complexity (and how much facilitation is required)

  • Delivery: strategy-only vs training vs production coordination

  • Timeframe: realistic pacing vs urgent deadlines

  • Outputs: what needs creating, and how it will be used

What you get within each service area

1) Storytelling strategy & consultancy

This is for organisations who need clarity before creating content — especially where multiple voices, sensitivities or systems are involved.

This work is usually delivered across a short series of sessions, allowing thinking to evolve rather than forcing decisions into a single meeting.

Typical outcomes:

  • A clear plan for what stories to tell (and what not to tell yet)

  • Ethical and stakeholder mapping

  • A practical approach to consent, care and representation

  • A realistic delivery plan shaped around organisational capacity

  • A decision on what can be done in-house vs supported externally

Common scopes might include:

  • 2–3 strategy sessions over 3–6 weeks, plus written recommendations

  • A short storytelling plan to guide internal comms and partners

  • Advisory support alongside a complex or sensitive initiative

Investment:from £1,200–£3,500

2) Training & capacity-building

This is for teams, facilitators, practitioners and comms leads who want to develop storytelling skills they can use responsibly and confidently — without turning everyone into “content people”.

Training is often paired with strategy so learning is grounded in real work.

Training can include:

  • Ethical storytelling basics (consent, power, representation)

  • Story capture skills for in-house teams (interviews, audio, mobile filming)

  • Story mapping and narrative planning for programmes

  • Coaching-style support for facilitators, educators and L&D teams

  • Embedded support over time rather than a single workshop

Typical formats:

Training and capacity-building are usually delivered as a short series of workshops supported by learning resources and follow-up, rather than as one-off sessions.

This allows teams to explore a subject or theme over time, apply learning in practice, and build confidence and judgement — rather than receiving information in isolation.

Single workshops are sometimes used as an entry point, but are most effective when part of a wider programme of learning and reflection.

Investment: typically from £1,500

3) Production coordination / executive producer roles

This is for organisations who need specialist delivery — but want the work held within a wider strategy, with ethical oversight and consistency.

Production coordination is typically an ongoing role across a project or programme, rather than a one-off intervention.

In this model, Brave Day takes a senior coordinating role, bringing in trusted freelancers or partner studios where needed. Alongside this, I bring deep, hands-on filmmaking experience — from concept through to completion — ensuring decisions are grounded in real production realities, not theory.

This can include:

  • Executive producer / coordinating role

  • Defining the brief and shaping the story approach

  • Recruiting and managing the right creatives

  • Oversight of quality, ethics and consistency

  • Keeping delivery aligned with purpose (not just outputs)

Typical scopes might include:

  • Coordinating a small team across multiple locations

  • Managing filming schedules and contributor care

  • Joining steering meetings and keeping decisions clear

  • Supporting commissioning teams to stay grounded and realistic

Investment: typically from £2,500+ depending on scope

A note about “how many sessions do we get?”

Fair question - and also exactly why I avoid selling storytelling like a fixed menu.

Because the real question is usually:

“What do we need to make good decisions, without burning people out?”

That said, I’ll always give you:

  • A clear scope

  • A realistic timeline

  • What’s included/excluded

  • What happens if things change

So you’re not left guessing.

Working pace and boundaries

Brave Day’s work is designed to support wellbeing and long-term capacity, not burnout.

That means:

  • We agree realistic timelines

  • We keep decision-making clean

  • We avoid extractive storytelling

  • We plan around real organisational capacity

  • We scope properly (and re-scope if things change)

How we get started

Most projects begin with a short call to understand:

  • What you’re trying to achieve

  • Who needs to be involved

  • What sensitivities or risks are present

  • What capacity you have in-house

  • What support would genuinely help

This may lead to a short scoping phase or pilot session, followed by a clear proposal and scope if we’re aligned.