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Heritage Crafts was set up just fourteen years ago. Since then it has gone from strength to strength, advocating at the highest levels for crafts, publishing the Red List of Endangered Crafts, and distributing 66 grants through the Endangered Crafts Fund. We have awarded 30 training bursaries, established the Heritage Crafts Awards and shone a spotlight on our world-renowned makers through 30 National Honours successes.

Many more people are now aware of traditional crafts and the objects produced by those who carry in their hands, heads, and also hearts the skills and techniques that have been passed down through the generations.

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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! 👏

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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.