Tinderbox was founded in 2003 to promote educational resource ‘visits to schools.’ It subsequently was a vehicle for the promotion of many craft activities. The relaunched Tinderbox web page now promotes the commercial hand-made crafts activities of Richard Lees, and the Victorian toy resource for schools.

Richard Lees, Craftsman does many other non-commercial traditional crafts: Bessom making (traditional brooms) pole lathe (foot driven lathe), spoon making, pottery and leather work are but a few of his skills.