Contemporary Craft Enterprise Level 3 Diploma

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Holts Academy of Jewellery

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• Course description
  Drawing on their long experience of supporting makers, expert tutors at the Crafts Council and Academy for Creative Enterprise have created the Contemporary Craft Enterprise Level 3 Diploma - to advise and steer you on the first steps to running professional and sustainable craft business. By the end of the Contemporary Craft Enterprise Diploma you will have created your own complete business strategy based on the best-practice learning from thousands of similar craft businesses, and will have a nationally recognised Level 3 Diploma.
  
  Taught by professional makers and developed from the joint expertise of the Crafts Council and the Academy for Creative Enterprise, the course will cover everything from VAT returns to website development - all the real-life skills essential for managing a successful craft business.
  
  The programme includes:
  Exploring how to Start and Run a Business
  Create a vision for your business
  Run a Business from Home
  Sole Traders and Partnerships – Essential Principles
  VAT Registration and Returns
  Basic Principles of Costing
  Payment principles
  Business planning
  Build and maintain business relationships
  Determine sources of finance for the business
  Choose supplies and suppliers for your business
  Obtaining support for a business idea
  Understand costs within an organisation
  Trade fairs and exhibitions
  Visual merchandising
  Understanding Your Market
  Develop a website for the Business
  Principles of online selling
  Negotiation and Influencing
  Understand buyer behaviour
  Deliver reliable customer service
  
  The Crafts Council is the national development agency for contemporary craft. Their goal is to make the UK the best place to make, see, collect and learn about contemporary craft. They believe craft plays a dynamic and vigorous role in social, economic and cultural life. They have been supporting makers for over 40 years to develop and run successful craft practices, through a range of programmes and will be bringing their expertise, knowledge and networks to the delivery of this new diploma.
  
  
  What Does it Cost?
  
  
  £2,269.00. You may be eligible for funding or a student loan.

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