What is the East London Craft Guerrilla? "The East London Craft Guerrilla" is part of "The Craft Guerrilla", a project set up to work in conjunction with other independent crafts people, artists, designers and creative businesses. We're all for learning, networking, DIY-ing our own opportunities, sharing knowledge and experience with other crafty people! The aim is to take over empty or unused spaces and/or associate with “friendly” businesses and coordinate craft events that will generate sales for members and those associated businesses. Basically we offer unusual, well made products and the opportunity to bring in new stock, new shoppers to those businesses and they supply us with a space and their customer base. 

Can I become a member? Yes but you don’t have to be a member to participate in the craft markets but to be eligible for membership you must have had a stall/pitch with us at least a few times in our events. This is so we can see if if you and the group are compatible when working together and in the spirit of fairness so you as well as the group do not have to commit to anything before trying it out.

So what do I get out of it? By becoming a member of the Craft Guerrilla Army you’ll get first dibs on pitches. Your work/products will be showcased in the "members gallery page" on the CRAFT GUERRILLA website with all your contact details and a direct link to your web shop/site/etc. which will hopefully generate sales and publicity for yourself. By associating with the Craft Guerrilla any publicity we generate will affect you and every other member directly and indirectly.And so you get full advantage of all the publicity we create for the group as a whole and through publicity generated by each individual and that's why we need you to link the CRAFT GUERRILLA web site to your own site and publicity. We can not stress enough the importance of web site LINKS! 
You get the chance to forward your own ideas and venues for future events and set up workshops "classes for the masses" with our backing and help. As things progress we hope that we will be able to offer other benefits to members.  

What are my responsibilities as a member? We ask members to take it upon themselves to help “get the word out” as it’s in all of our interests to get as many shoppers to our events. Posters and flyers will be ready to down load on the Craft Guerrilla web site and all you have to do is print it,upload it on your own website,social network,blog page etc and get it out there! You can make your own but we ask you use all information supplied in the press release.Also we ask that you mention the Craft Guerrilla name as a Link in your own web sites and publicity.
Even though we encourage you to "be your own boss" we also encourage members to take a proactive role with in the group so everyone can benefit from their particular talent and leadership.

Do I pay commission on any sales? NO! And we’ll be working with “friendly businesses” that also don’t. 

How much do I pay for a pitch? It’s all dependent on the venue rental and how much we can get it for but prices will be kept to a minimum. As we are also makers and stall holders,we ask ourselves…How much would I be prepared to pay? 

Is there a charge for joining? All we ask is for a yearly donation of £20. That’s so we can pay for the web site domain, up keep and for paying the “computer monkeys” for their time imputing, uploading etc. Any surplus fees goes back into the collective and on projects that will generate more income for the group as a whole. 

Sounds good but why should I pay? We’re not in this to exploit other crafts people we too are makers and this is actually about creating opportunities… a make your own opportunities kind of thing!

Can I use the "Craft Guerrilla" name? Sure,but please ask before hand.There's no charge in using the name,in fact we hope you like the idea so much that you will want to set up your own craft group... but we would like to know who's out there using our name and following our manifesto...besides it's polite to ask! We're all for sharing, passing on information and knowledge. You must however contact us before you make your own and have a link on your web site to us "the mother site" and we'll do the same for you!