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Prepare your craft products, pricing and processes so you can approach and work effectively with retail stockists.

Understand key legal responsibilities for craft businesses, including structure, contracts, intellectual property and insurance.

How formally setting out your succession plan helps you to achieve your exit target.

Why voluntary liquidation might be the best way to cease your involvement in your business.

How selling your business might be the best option for you.

The pros and cons of succeeding ownership of your business to a non-family member.

Choosing who your successor will be and preparations for the succession.

Knowing which succession options exist will enable you to choose one that's best suited to your circumstances.

How knowing what succession planning is and knowing what's at stake will help you to make wise decisions.

How effective succession planning can create the best outcome for you and your business.

Use collaborations with other makers and businesses to increase visibility, test ideas and grow your craft brand.

Plan sustainable growth for your craft business by managing capacity, pricing, systems and protecting creative identity.

What you need to do if you have problems paying what you owe to HMRC when selling or closing a business.

What you should put in your written plan to help you close your business properly.

What you need to do if your business is VAT registered and you are closing or selling your business.

Who to inform, which final payments to calculate and how to support employees when you close a business.

Information about your legal duties to inform and consult employees when transferring a business.

Informing Companies House when selling a company or LLP with changes to the secretary, directors or members.

What you need to do and who to contact at HM Revenue & Customs when you stop being self-employed.

The different paperwork you need to do if you intend to sell your limited company or LLP.

Having an exit strategy may be the best way to ensure a pain-free sale or liquidation.

Requirements for moving and storing goods and fuel duty.

Understand and mix sales channels, from markets to online and wholesale, to grow your craft business sustainably.

Steps that reduce the risk for potential buyers of your business and can increase the price they are willing to pay.