The resilience toolkit is a purely diagnostic tool developed to help specifically creative micro-
businesses in the UK assess their level of resilience as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Disclaimer: This toolkit is not a business development tool although it can assist with certain aspects of business development which relate to resilience. It is purely for diagnostic purposes only and should not be used as a way to build a business but as a guide to gauging what resilience looks like for specifically creative micro-businesses that are being affected by external shocks.
Although the tool was designed as a result of Covid 19 we believe that the markers that have been developed represent areas that might be affected by other external ( and some internal ) shocks as well. As such, we hope that the toolkit is a useful guide for creative micro-businesses as they navigate different types of uncertainty.
Who designed it?
The toolkit was designed as a result of an 18 month research study conducted by Dr. Tarek Virani at the University of the West of England, Bristol. The research project is called: COVID-19 Creative Economy Resilience & Recovery (CCERR).
About CCERR
P.I.: Tarek Virani, SCCI, UWE Bristol – contact tarek.virani@uwe.ac.uk
Co. I: Elizabeth Green, FBL, UWE Bristol
Research Fellows: Christina Williams and Claire Evans
Short Abstract: This project will design as well as assess the efficacy of a resilience framework and toolkit for creative micro-businesses (CMBs) across the UK as a way to aid in the creative sector’s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.
Longer abstract: The COVID 19 Creative Economy Resilience & Recovery (CCERR) is a national project which asks what resilience, and subsequent recovery and rebuilding, might look like for the UK’s creative sector. It will do so by designing and assessing the efficacy of a resilience framework and toolkit for creative micro-businesses (CMBs) across the UK as a way to aid in the creative sector’s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. This project will: (1) develop a framework of resilience for CMBs.
This will be achieved by: First, distributing a survey to CMBs in nine city regions across the UK(
Belfast, Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester, London –Tottenham, London –Croydon, Exeter, Bristol,
Edinburgh); second, analysing the survey results and then refining them further through a virtual
focus group designed for a cohort of CMBs from across the UK. The project will then (2) design and test a resilience toolkit for CMBs based on the findings of the framework analysis.
Project partners
British Council
Baltic Creative CIC, Liverpool
MadLab Manchester
Future Screens NI (CICP)
Creative Edinburgh
Creative Cardiff ( CICP)
London Borough of Haringey –Made in Tottenham (CEZ)
London Borough of Croydon –(CEZ)
Kaleider Exeter
Watershed Bristol