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The national charity for heritage craft skills
Supporting craft heritage
We are the national charity set up to celebrate, support and safeguard traditional craft skills, and to facilitate a national conversation about their importance to everyone now and in the future.
We are passionate about ensuring that everyone has access to craft skills that have developed over generations, and which we believe will be vital in helping us tackle the challenges of the future – and to be able to enjoy making as part of a fulfilled life.
Our Patron is His Majesty King Charles III.
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Heritage Crafts was set up just fifteen 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 95 grants through the Endangered Crafts Fund. We have awarded 131 training bursaries, established the Heritage Crafts Awards and shone a spotlight on our world-renowned makers through 33 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.
To continue this work we need your support. Please consider making a donation, however big or small, to help ensure that heritage craft skills in the UK are given the opportunity to thrive.
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Heritage Crafts at the Cutty Sark during @londoncraftweek ⚓️
When we talk about heritage, we usually think about buildings, monuments, museum objects and historic vessels like this one.
We think about the things we can touch and see.
But the most important part of our heritage is actually invisible. It is the know-how in the minds of the makers.
If we preserve the Cutty Sark but we let the skill of ship building die out, we have lost the ability to ever build another one.
We have lost a piece of human ingenuity.
A ship without a rigger, or a sail without a sailmaker, is just a dead object.
But when those skills are alive, the ship is a living thing.
Thank you @royalmuseumsgreenwich for hosting a weekend of Heritage Crafts.
#heritagecrafts #londoncraftweek #maritime
Wonderful to catch up with current Heritage Crafts Emerging Weaver of the Year @leonie.textiles demonstrating all this week at @roseuniacke as part of @londoncraftweek. The collaboration is raising funds for Heritage Crafts through the sale of Leonie’s weaving.
Rose Uniacke have generously supported this award for the past three years, and the 2026 award is now open for nominations via our website. They have also supported our work to safeguard traditional craft skills with profits from their Remnant Weave project.
Thank you so much Rose Uniacke and well done to the hugely talented Leonie!
Heritage crafts at the core of the day!
Words cannot describe how proud we are to have hosted such a wonderful event in collaboration with @heritagecrafts the @theleathersellers and @saddlerscompany.saddlershall for @londoncraftweek this year.
From the beautiful pieces contributed to the auction, to the makers who spoke about their work, to those who gave demonstrations and answered questions. We were thrilled to see so many showing an interest and especially grateful to those who bid on the silent auction.
We ended the day with some inspiring speeches and hope to keep the conversation going.
#londoncraftweek #heritagecrafts #craft
Wonderful evening of speeches in celebration of Living Legacies at @theleathersellers for @londoncraftweek.
What is a heritage craft? @maryeluned_craft talks about the history of the Red List of Endanger Crafts and its role in the future. Great thoughts for @londoncraftweek.
Thank you to our incredible speakers, none of this would be possible without you!
#heritagecrafts #londoncraftweek #redlistofendangeredcrafts
Our wonderful Trustee Jonathan Reid from @ernestwrightltd talking about the critically endangered craft of scissor making at our Living Legacies event at Leathersellers Hall for @londoncraftweek.
We could listen to our makers talk about their passion for their craft all day. ✂️
#scissormaking #heritagecrafts #londoncraftweek
Valeria Leonova @artvaleria talking about the endangered craft of petrykivka.
We’ve had so many of you coming through the doors and it’s been wonderful sharing heritage crafts with you.
#petrykivka #ukrainianfolkart
Devin Valentine @valentine_instruments speaking about Luthiery their time at @westdeancollege and the skill of bow making.
Come along to Leathersellers Hall and meet the makers – we’re here until 16.30.
#heritagecrafts #luthiery #endangeredcraft
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