Creative and cultural micro businesses are facing numerous external challenges – the fallout from Brexit and the Covid pandemic as well as the recent cost of living crisis are examples of this.

The resilience toolkit is a diagnostic tool developed as a result of an 18 month research study led by Dr. Tarek Virani at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in partnership with MadLab => https://creativetoolkit.biz‍

The project was funded by UKRI’s Economic and Social Research Council and was part of their Covid Call in 2021. It was supported by UWE Bristol’s Creative Economies Lab. Other partners included: Kaleidar Exeter, Baltic Creative Liverpool CIC, Creative Cardiff, British Council, Made in Tottenham (CEZ), Creative Croydon (CEZ), Creative Edinburgh, Future Screens NI, and Watershed Bristol.