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An individual wishing to support Heritage Crafts at the benefactor level
You will receive:
  • Quarterly Benefactor Newsletter
  • Acknowledgement in the Heritage Crafts Annual Review and on the Heritage Crafts website
  • VIP invitation to Heritage Crafts events
  • 2 Monthly emails sent (Members Newsletter and Meet a Maker interview)
  • Members only portal on the website (digital resources, videos, and info)
  • Exclusive digital talks and workshops 
  • profile on the Maker Directory, which is an online showcase of work by Heritage Crafts members who practises a craft
  • Discounted tickets to our Annual Conference for 2 adults
  • Invitation to the Heritage Crafts’ AGM where you will be able to vote on significant issues affecting the charity
  • Annual visit to maker workshop or open house
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Two adult of the same household who wish to support Heritage Crafts at the benefactor level
You will receive:
  • Quarterly Benefactor Newsletter
  • Acknowledgement in the Heritage Crafts Annual Review and on the Heritage Crafts website
  • VIP invitation to Heritage Crafts events
  • 2 Monthly emails (Members Newsletter and Meet a Maker interview)
  • Members only portal on the website (digital resources, videos, and info)
  • Exclusive digital talks and workshops 
  • profile on the Maker Directory, which is an online showcase of work by Heritage Crafts members who practises a craft
  • Discounted tickets to our Annual Conference for two adults and two youths under 18
  • Invitation to the Heritage Crafts’ AGM where you will be able to vote on significant issues affecting the charity
  • Annual visit to maker workshop or open house
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A non-profit wishing to support Heritage Crafts at the benefactor level
You will receive:
  • Quarterly Benefactor Newsletter
  • Acknowledgement in the Heritage Crafts Annual Review and on the Heritage Crafts website
  • Listing as a partner on the Heritage Crafts website
  • VIP invitation to Heritage Crafts events
  • 2 Monthly emails sent to as many as 5 recipients (Members Newsletter and Meet a Maker interview)
  • Members only portal on the website (digital resources, videos, and info)
  • Exclusive digital talks and workshops 
  • profile on the Maker Directory, which is an online showcase of work by Heritage Crafts members who practises a craft
  • Discounted tickets to our Annual Conference for up to 5 recipients
  • Invitation to the Heritage Crafts’ AGM where you will be able to vote on significant issues affecting the charity
  • Annual visit to maker workshop or open house

 

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A for-profit wishing to support Heritage Crafts at the benefactor level
You will receive:
  • Quarterly Benefactor Newsletter
  • Acknowledgement in the Heritage Crafts Annual Review and on the Heritage Crafts website
  • Listing as a partner on the Heritage Crafts website
  • VIP invitation to Heritage Crafts events
  • 2 Monthly emails sent to as many as 5 recipients (Members Newsletter and Meet a Maker interview)
  • Members only portal on the website (digital resources, videos, and info)
  • Exclusive digital talks and workshops 
  • profile on the Maker Directory, which is an online showcase of work by Heritage Crafts members who practises a craft
  • Discounted tickets to our Annual Conference for up to 5 recipients
  • Invitation to the Heritage Crafts’ AGM where you will be able to vote on significant issues affecting the charity
  • Annual visit to maker workshop or open house
Sign up

Being a benefactor for Heritage Crafts is a very meaningful and rewarding way of giving for us. We are passionate about maintaining our British makers and craftspeople – and by becoming a benefactor we are able to help educate and train people, and support existing crafts that are in need. We have also met some amazingly creative and skilled young people. We hope that we are playing our part to increase the likelihood of at-risk heritage skills surviving into the next generation.

Lucy Butcher
Lucy Butcher

Benefactors shaping our future

Your financial contribution will help us to:

  • raise awareness of the challenges facing heritage crafts;
  • make awards and bursaries which recognise excellence and provide funding for training and support for emerging craft talent;
  • support the heritage crafts community so that traditional crafts continue into the future;
  • record endangered craft skills and make them available in print and online;
  • advocate for traditional crafts to government and key organisations;
  • increase the profile of heritage crafts across the UK and raise awareness of the world-class crafts produced here;
  • highlight the cultural value of heritage crafts and their national importance;
  • inform and inspire young people to consider a career in craft;
  • provide teaching materials for non-specialists so that crafts can be taught in the classroom.

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The BBC reports that Moorcroft Pottery, which stopped trading at the end of April after more than 100 years in business, has been returned to family ownership.

The company has been bought by Will Moorcroft, whose grandfather William Moorcroft built the factory on Sandbach Road in Cobridge in 1913, with support from London department store Liberty. 

Mr Moorcroft said he would like to see “as many of the staff as we can bring back” but that he was unable to guarantee all 57 workers would be able to return. He added that they were considering moving production away from the site in Burslem, moving the firm solely to the original factory on Sandbach Road.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0jxzn8en8o.amp
Congratulations to former Heritage Crafts Patron, Dame Emma Bridgwater! 👏

#Repost @emma_bridgewater with @use.repost
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We’re so proud to share that our Founder, Emma Bridgewater, is to be appointed a Dame for her services to Ceramics. A truly fitting recognition of her vision, immense creativity and years spent championing British pottery. What an honour, and so well deserved. A huge congratulations, Dame Emma! 
 
“I’m honoured and very happy about the award; what a marvellous accolade this is - for the people, and the pottery traditions of Stoke-on-Trent! I feel clear that whilst I receive it, they won it, and they so richly deserve such recognition! 

My forty years in the Potteries has been a marvellous and unlikely adventure - I feel privileged indeed to have learned about ceramics from the long suffering, resilient and excellent people of Stoke. The abandonment of our manufacturing power feels to me like a gigantic wasted opportunity whilst the unresolved trauma created in the populations of our post industrial cities stands as a running challenge to us all.” 

— Emma
#matchMAKER opportunity!

Sewing apprentice (2 places) 

Deadline: 14 July 2025

Senator International in Altham are recruiting for a Sewing Apprentice. The successful candidate will work towards completing a Level 2 Sewing Machinist apprenticeship over the duration of 18 months.

Visit #matchMAKER via the linktr.ee in our bio to find out more.

#matchMAKER is the online platform for work-based training and entry-level employment opportunities hosted by @heritagecrafts and supported by @soanebritain.
#matchMAKER opportunity!

Furniture Making Operative Apprentice 

Deadline: 16 June 2025

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the team at Collin’s Bespoke, a quality cabinetry making company, which includes designing kitchens and other interiors. Learning valuable skills from specialised craftsmen to lead on to a successful career in the carpentry industry.

For nearly 30 years, Nick Collins has been designing and making bespoke cabinetry. Collins Bespoke was borne from Nick’s passion for bespoke interiors, and is where his craftsmanship has been nurtured, refined and shared. The Collins Bespoke team is an array of skilled crafts-people, mostly trained in-house: from designing, planning and templating; to finishing, assembling and installing.

Visit #matchMAKER via the linktr.ee in our bio to find out more.

#matchMAKER is the online platform for work-based training and entry-level employment opportunities hosted by @heritagecrafts and supported by @soanebritain.