online school & shop

The Design Trust Online Business School and Shop will open in June!

We are currently working with some great affiliate partners to give you a range of hand-picked products, services and tools that we personally recommend and will help you run your business better:

  • The Design Trust Guide to Start & Run a Successful Craft Business: our up to date guide and workbook that will help you step-by-step to set up your own business confidently
  • Specialist bookkeeping software & support for creatives from My Cake
  • Create your own gorgeous online boutique with specialist and super user friendly software – be fully in control of the design and content for your own web shop with all the nitty gritty details sorted for you.  Have an e-boutique up and running in an afternoon and start selling online!
  • A specialist e-course and group coaching programme about online marketing for designer makers that will give you a thorough overview, lots of inspiration and knowledge and great individual and group support
  • A 12-week self-study e-course to help you start and improve your blog

  • The Creative Money Manual: a self-study e-course to help you tackle your money and finance challenges and to make you more confident around money
  • A wide range of highly recommended business books selected and reviewed by The Design Trust

As a Design Trust Business Club member you will get special discounts on many of the products and services above.

The Design Trust is really pleased to be working with a few selected affiliate partners who provide specialist services, products and tools. We try each one out before we recommend them, and only work with companies that we like, trust and personally recommend.

As a social enterprise The Design Trust needs to generate its own income, as we do not get any funding. We prefer to have an ad-free website and to work with and build special relationships with selected affiliate partners.  As an affiliate partner we get a commission on every sale (at no extra cost to you, in fact if you are a Business Club member you will often get a discount through us!).  Rest assured we are not driven by the commission rate – but by quality products and services from businesses we like and trust,  that we have personally tested and are happy to recommend to help sole traders and freelancers to run and grow their design and craft business better.