RAISED RESOURCES IN ONE YEAR
600,000 — subsidy for purchasing of equipment for metal and wood works,
17,000 — compensation of costs for renting and holding of exhibition and trade fair activities on behalf of Surgut administration,
5 tons of coal for heath operation,
over 20 forged articles for the private Museum of Forged Products, two partnerships with blacksmith associations, services for translation of presentations and quotations of Ugra Export Support Center, educational opportunities of Ugra Entrepreneurship Support Foundation, Our Future Foundation (accelerator), ISLA Foundation (accelerator).
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE CURRENT YEAR?
We defined value offers, arrived at a mission, started enhancement of business processes. The products were introduced at etsy.com (sales to the USA and Denmark); we received an inquiry for Yakut ice breaks from fishery and hunting shops in Belorussia and some Ugra towns.
FINANCIAL STABILITY MODEL
4 components:
a) master classes and blacksmith's work courses,
b) weapon-grade forgery (knives, ice breaks, forgings, axes),
c) manufacture of forged gift products,
d) manufacture of tailor-made metal articles.
SOCIAL EFFECTS ACHIEVED IN THE CURRENT YEAR
Over 1000 persons were introduced to blacksmith's work. A public blacksmith's shop opened in Nyagan; a project on blacksmith's work development started in Nizhnevartovsk; three masters of Ob Smithery arranged their own specialized garage workshops.
SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL IMPACT
Stable growth of involvement of people in development of the blacksmith's work project which promotes a growing interest and readiness to purchase handicraft articles.