The Design Trust helps professional designers & craftspeople to create and run better businesses – for themselves, their families and communities, and the world.
We select, create and promote a wide range of practical, inspirational & expert business development advice, knowledge, products & tools for starting and more established designers and craftspeople across the world:
- Find up to date listings for business training & opportunitiessuch as call for exhibitions, competitions and commissions – across the UK and international
- Have you got a burning design or craft business questions or problem? Write to The Design Doctor who will answer your questions online.
- Browse here on the left our blog posts that give practical advice and tips for your design or craft business
- Join us at our first major event Make it pay the most inspiring, creative and fun event for designers and crafts people around selling yourself and your work
- Register for FREE for our expert webinars, or listen later to the podcasts
- Sign up for our monthly newsletterhere on the right to get a bumper issues full of opportunities and business training delivered to your inbox
In the next couple of weeks (May – July 2012) we will launch:
- The Design Trust Guide To Start & Run A Successful Craft Business- an e-guide that gives you all the practi
cal and expert information that you need. But it is also a work book; asking you some BIG questions, so that you can doodle and write along, developing the business that works for you – in a creative way.
- The Design Trust Business Club - our membership for both starting and existing soletraders, freelancers, partnerships and small business owners in design and craft. Members will get exclusive access to The Design Trust Webinars and The Design Trust Dialogues where we talk with a wide range of business experts, people who can help you sell or market your work, and successful designers and crafts people.
- The Design Trust Online Business School and Shop – full of hand-picked products, books, tools and e-courses to help you run your business better.
You can find out more here about The Design Trust 20 year history and our new manifesto.
We are based in London, and we want to create a thriving international design and crafts scene, both financially and culturally.
We are a social enterprise who are really proud to be working in partnership with a group of 25 partners: a wide range of expert individual advisers and consultants, as well as non profit organisations and commercial business development and events businesses.