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The Heritage Crafts Awards are now open with six brand new awards for 2023 supported by Marsh Charitable Trust, Axminster Tools, Sonnaz Ltd, Rose Uniacke, Sims Hilditch, and Lucy and Laurence Butcher. Deadline for applications: 5 May 2023.

Winner of the 2022 Heritage Crafts President’s Award for Endangered Crafts Suffolk-based pargeter Johanna Welsh has won the 2022 President’s Award for Endangered Crafts. The prestigious award, and £3,000 bursary, was initiated by Heritage Crafts’ President The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, before his Accession as HM King Charles III. The President’s Award trophy was […]

 
Slipware potter Hannah McAndrew has won Maker of the Year in the 2022 Heritage Crafts Awards supported by the Marsh Charitable Trust, which was presented along with five other awards at a prestigious Winners’ Reception at the House of Lords on 30 January 2023 sponsored by The Royal Mint.

 
Heritage Crafts, DCA Consulting, Kendrick Hobbs and the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers are delighted to award two new bursaries for heritage crafts trainees experiencing financial hardship to horology trainee Michael Dickson and bookbinder Toben Lewis.

Deadline for applications: Sunday 19 June 2022 Heritage Crafts has enlisted the help of Inclusive Boards in our search for a new Chair. Heritage Crafts is seeking a new Chair to lead the organisation through the next stage of its strategic and operational development. The Chair will lead the Board and act as an active […]

 
In 2020 Ben Bosence of Local Works Studio was awarded funding through the Endangered Craft Fund for his ‘Winning the Clay’ Project, a historic term for finding clay materials suitable for making bricks and tiles.

Winner of the 2021 Heritage Crafts President’s Award for Endangered Crafts Birmingham-based watchmaker Rebecca Struthers has won the second annual President’s Award for Endangered Crafts in this year’s Heritage Crafts Awards. The prestigious award, and £3,000 bursary, was initiated by Heritage Crafts President HRH The Prince of Wales. Rebecca is Director and watchmaker of a […]

 
Glass engraver Tracey Sheppard has won Maker of the Year in the 2021 Heritage Crafts Awards supported by the Marsh Charitable Trust, one of a number of awards presented at a prestigious Winners’ Reception at the House of Lords on 2 February.

 
Traditional British hat making skills have suffered a major hit with the announcement of the closure of historic firm Olney Headwear Ltd, makers of the iconic Peaky Blinders hats. On Monday 21 December the company left its factory to make way for housing developers to build 31 apartments.

 
We are delighted to have recently welcomed our 1,000th member of the Heritage Crafts Association, wallpaper maker Louise Altman. Here, Louise tells us a little bit about her work and why she chose to join the HCA.

Heritage Craft Training Case Study – Lawrence Neal, Richard Platt and Sam Cooper   Bringing a craft back from the brink   The Gimson ladderback chair is a classic of the Arts & Crafts Movement, made by an unbroken line of craftsmen. Gimson was inspired and taught by the village chairmaker Phillip Clissett, born in […]