HOW COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS PROGRAMMES WORK Each programme follows four distinct phases of participation. During the “Discovery” phase, participants discover new ideas and get inspired about what they might want to make.
batch-produce products. They also are trained on machines and inducted into spaces of The Warehouse so they can freely book in without supervision or assistance.
In the “Design” phase, participants work with expert tutors to design and rapidly prototype products or service ideas. In the “Make” stage, participants learn new making skills and start to
And last, during the “Test Trade” phase, participants go to market or set up a shop so they can test whether their products or services sell.
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DISCOVER See the programmes in the newspaper, online or through the shops.
Join a short taster workshop making, cooking or learning.
Come to a Open Information Session, an Open Project Night or Show and Tell.
Meet the team to talk about your ideas and get more details.
Sign up to join a programme!
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DESIGN & PROTOTYPE Bring your ideas to life with a designer.
Learn how the machines work.
Make and refine a prototype of your product or service.
Feel totally amazed at what you have created!
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MAKE Start becoming a collaborative and supportive team together sharing expertise, ideas and time.
Start producing a stock of your products ready to go to market.
Get ready to start test trading, set pricing, fit out the spaces, organise promotions, set schedules and rotas etc.
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TEST TRADE
Evaluate and plan next steps
Opportunities in different spaces to test trade part of all the programmes. 122