Birmingham (IDEAS)

IDEAS Birmingham stands for Independent Designer Events for Artists & Shoppers in Birmingham and the surrounding areas. 

How we started

The team was started by a group of local Etsy sellers that met through Craft Britannia, a UK Etsy sellers team. “We had been chatting and promoting together online for a number of years so we knew we wanted to work together in person. We knew we could bring the Craft Britannia community ethos and create local selling events for Etsy Sellers from the region.”

We started organising meet-ups to talk about our plans in March 2014. Once we became confident that we had all the skills we needed between us and that we could authentically represent Etsy’s own values within our team, we launched it officially on Etsy in May 2015.

Casting our net wider

We knew from the start that while we wanted to focus on holding events in the city, we didn’t want to restrict the team members to Birmingham alone. So along with our Brummie teamies, we also have members based in the West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire too.

Our mission

The team’s mission is to provide a friendly and supportive group that aims to help both full-time and part-time sellers expand their businesses. As our resident Team Leader Jenny from Mythillogical so fabulously put it:

Whether you’re an Etsy stalwart on your million billionth sale, or a complete newbie still awaiting your first ‘kerching’; it really doesn’t matter to us. We believe everyone has something to offer; whether you are shiny polished and perfect, or a little scruffy and rough around the edges!