Edinburgh jeweller

I wrote this blog post for the London Jewellery School blog (as I am one of their business tutors) It can be difficult to find advice and resources if you are working for yourself. I've put together some of her favourite online resources for you in a series of blog posts. In the first of this series, I tackled resources for help with sales and selling . In this post I have looked at financial and legal issues. Setting up a jewellery business can feel like a minefield. You don’t always know what you don’t know! Here are some resources to help you feel more organised and clued up. Registering your business and submitting your tax return If you are going to start up a jewellery business you need to register with HMRC. It is worth viewing some of the HMRC webinars or signing up for a free live webinar as you can ask questions and get clarification on your situation. Filing an online tax return It is important to work out a system for keeping up to date wi...

As metal clay artists in the UK will now now, the price of Art Clay will rise significantly on 1st June 2012. The Metal Clay Academy website published this statement yesterday.  Art Clay in the UK will be increasing in price from 1st June by around 30%. Initial indicative pricing puts a retail 50g pack of Art Clay Silver 650 up from £109 to £142.50 including VAT. The public announcement from Metal Clay Ltd , one of the UK distributors is as follows:- "Change in Art Clay pricing - Aida has managed to keep the prices of metal clay as low as possible for a long time but, due to the historical high rate of the Japanese Yen appreciation against the US Dollar and Euro since last year, combined with the continuous high price of gold and silver and increases in manufacturing costs in Japan, they now need to be more realistic with how they price their products, in order to keep manufacturing and supplying us. They’ve been discussing different solutions for recovery and pro...