From Trainee to Maker: How Employment Works

The hardest part of most training schemes is what happens afterwards: people learn a skill and then have nowhere to use it. We built our studio precisely so that this never happens. When a trainee is ready, they don’t go looking for work — they already have it, here, with us.

Graduates of our programme become salaried makers. They are given consistent hours, a fair and rising wage, and a role chosen around the skill they’ve developed. Because our orders come from customers all over the world, there is always work to be done, and the more our shop grows, the more makers we can take on.

This is the loop that makes everything sustainable: you buy a piece, that sale funds wages and the next round of training, and another person steps from uncertainty into steady, skilled employment. Your purchase isn’t a donation that disappears — it is an investment in a working studio that keeps on giving.