Corporate days out & team building courses, craft kits and handcrafted gifts

Our most popular course! Join us for a week on Mull and build your very own beautiful sea kayak to take home with you. We build the CNC Shrike over this week - a Greenland style sea kayak, made of thin marine plywood and fibreglass to make a very strong but very light boat. Because of the nature of these builds, you will do a lot of work on your own boat before we work together as a group on all the boats to achieve various tasks in the available...

Come and join us for a week of traditional craft, gentle walks and optional morning yoga - a truly relaxing week for creative people who would like a bit of the outdoors. Over the week participants can have a go at natural dyeing outdoors in the woods. Foraging for dye plants, making botanical dyes from what they have foraged and learning about ancient imported dyes. Guests will dye local fleece as well as fleece from our own small flock of Shetland sheep. After a day of natural dyeing, we will...

We love building the Caravelle rowing boat with groups all around Scotland, but often the most interesting things about the week are what happens around the build. So in this new week, we’re leaning into that - think of this week as an experience of a lifetime! Over a week at the beautiful hostel on Iona, we will work together to build a boat - but we will also take time off to sail a stunning traditional boat, gather to hear stories and songs of the sea told by candlelight,...

Come and join for either our week-long Natural Dyeing and Hand-Spinning course or our 6 day shorter course. We are located in a beautiful part of the Scottish Highlands. Participants spend their first few days foraging for Highland dye plants and making botanical dyes in our woodland clearing. We make our dyes outdoors over fires the traditional way, dyeing our own and local Shetland fleece ready to spin. We have our own small flock of Shetland sheep, which Alex will hand-shear on our longer course -we also sort and wash...

Come and join us in the Highlands of Scotland to get really immersed in traditional wool crafts. We start our week by shearing one of our Shetland sheep and washing and sorting fleeces. We go on to picking dye plants, making natural dyes and dyeing our fleece over outdoor fires the traditional way. Mid week we visit some of the areas stunning scenery for inspiration, including Glen Affric (one of Scotland's most beautiful glens). The last two days of the course are spent either wet felting (usually a wall hanging...

Create a bespoke and signature fragrance for your candle business! Learn formulating fragrance techniques directly from a Head Perfumer in a Chelsea Perfume Studio, using a real perfume organ containing over 100 fragrance material and natural notes, industry led techniques and methodologies. This is an expert one to one focused fragrance making workshop, designed to enable you to create a signature fragrance for your candle business using a perfumer’s industry led expertise and techniques. The workshop is hands on, engaging and technical. Suitable for beginners. Zaga is a founder of...

Become a skincare entrepreneur. Take this workshop online and in London. This workshop is customised to your own product specs and and your (brand) ideas. You will have developed 3 products from scratch and will learn how to formulate. You will learn how to label your product legally, what tests are required, lists of contacts and suppliers, and secrets to successful business that will make you stand out from the crowd. Suitable for beginners. Who for: You are an ambitious, smart individual with a great burning determination to succeed. You...

What will I learn? Steve is one of only a few professional glass artists choosing to work with solely enamel powders to colour the glass (as opposed to using pre-coloured glass such as Bullseye). He has developed his own techniques for working with these enamels, creating unique patterns and effects. Steve will share these techniques with you, and take you step- by-step through the glass-fusing process so that you can create your own unique piece of fused glass art. Whats the plan? On day one, as well as glass cutting...

Here at Vimart Signwriting we are offering a substantial course in signwriting which covers most aspects of the trade from materials to layout to the final sign whether it be on boat, signboard, shopfront or glass. Gold leaf work and decorative work is also covered thereby giving the potential future signwriter a thorough grounding in the skills needed to pursue this trade.

The Welsh stick chair is the vernacular style of Windsor chair that evolved west of the border several hundred years ago. They’re simple but striking, and will grace any hearth with a charismatic presence. Over this seven-day course in a beautiful woodland workshop you’ll be taken through the process of crafting a Welsh stick chair from log to finished piece. You’ll fashion the legs, spindles and other frame parts from locally sourced ash using a range of simple tools, including drawknife and spokeshave. You’ll also use an adze and travisher...