The Craft Toolkit

Tips and advice for craft makers, artisans, designers and craft professionals on how to create a business plan.

Crafting Futures, Thailand, photography by Simon Mills

The Craft Toolkit is designed for craft makers, artisans, designers and craft professionals, the toolkit is available in 12 languages and is designed to help practitioners create a business plan.

Part of our Crafting Futures programme, the toolkit has been developed for craft makers, by craft makers, this resource is available as a series of online learning modules covering goal setting, planning, selling and marketing, managing money and sustainability.

The Craft Toolkit is currently available in the following languages: Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Dari, English, Hindi, Indonesian, Malaysian, Nepali and Pashto, Spanish and Thai.

Supporters and contributors

The Craft Toolkit was developed with funding from the British Council by Carol Sinclair at Applied Arts Scotland

Content for the Sustainability Module was developed with funding from Pentland Brands by Kirstin Samuel M.A. MDev of Mumo & Community CIC with contributions from; Dr Inge Paneels of Napier University, Dr Sam Vettese of Napier University and Lynn Wilson M.A. MRes of Circular Design Scotland.