The Heritage Crafts Endangered Crafts Fund enables craft practitioners and organisations in the UK to apply for small grants to fund projects that support and promote endangered crafts (the craft must be listed as endangered or critically endangered on the current Red List of Endangered Crafts). Here is a list of the 66 projects funded so far:
- Catherine Ade, lithographer – to run a series of workshops on different lithography techniques and continue to supply lithography plate graining services (Bristol).
- Peter Ananin, oak bark tanner – to train an apprentice in the skills and knowledge of traditional Scottish bark tanning (Fife).
- Scot AnSgeulaiche, Highlands and Islands thatching – to train an apprentice in the craft of Highlands and Islands thatching and encourage the use of locally-grown thatching materials (Perthshire).
- Elizabeth Ashdown, passementerier – to enhance her existing practice by learning high-level passementerie skills from expert Clare Hedges (London).
- Andrew Basham, thatching spar maker – to learn to make thatching spars from the last spar maker in East Anglia, and equip himself for production from his hazel coppice (Essex).
- Katie Beard, type founder – to apprentice to type founder Stanley Lane, to safeguard the history and craft of metal type manufacture and letterpress book printing (Gloucestershire).
- Eddy Bennett, reverse glass sign artist – to purchase a plotter to cut vinyl etching stencils and provide custom stencils to other reverse glass sign artists in the region (Brighton).
- Duncan Berry, flint waller – to buy tools to enable him to pass on his skills as a flint waller (West Sussex).
- Ben Bosence, brick and tile maker – to develop and make bricks and tiles from waste clay that has been excavated locally (East Sussex).
- Tom Boulton, letterpress printer – to do a feasibility study into creating new wooden type for letterpress printing using CNC machining (West Sussex).
- Deborah Bowness, wallpaper maker – to learn traditional wallpaper making techniques through one-to-one training with a wallpaper conservationist (East Sussex).
- Justine Burgess, basket maker – to train in Teifi and Tywi coracle making so that she can pass on the skills to others (Carmarthen).
- Sarah Burns, textile block printer – to install two large dye kettles to increase her output and make the business more sustainable whilst upskilling her apprentice (West Sussex).
- Monica Cass, chair seater – to train a chair seat weaver in skeined willow techniques, and document the process (Norwich).
- Paul Chamberlain, reverse glass sign maker – to create short films to support the teaching of the craft of reverse-glass sign making (Norfolk).
- Coates Willow, basket makers – to forge new tools for an apprentice working with one of the last practicing basketwork furniture makers (Somerset).
- Kate Colin, fan maker – to develop the technical skills of fan making with a view to teaching the craft in future (Glasgow).
- Kevin Copeland , green woodworker – to train in traditional wooden rake making in order to pass these skills on to Veterans’ Growth service users and the wider community (East Sussex).
- Collette Davies, basket maker – to help revive the craft of lipwork straw basketry (Monmouth).
- Michelle Dawson, stained glass restorer – to supplement her glass restoration practice by learning high-level reverse-glass sign making skills from David A Smith MBE (Dorset).
- Samantha Dennis, coiled basketmaker – to catalogue and replicate historical coiled baskets of Shetland and create a market for small crofters to sell locally-grown oat straw (Shetland)
- Hugh Dunford-Wood, wallpaper maker – to create short films to support the teaching of the craft of hand-blocked wallpaper making throughout the UK and beyond (Dorset).
- Eve Eunson, Fair Isle chair maker – to record the skills of Fair Isle straw back chair making in a film that can be used to train others (Shetland).
- Rachel Evans, basketmaker – to learn the techniques of hazel basketmaking, specifically the Gower cockle basket and the whisket (Stoke-on-Trent).
- Stephanie Firth, shoemaker – to start up a business specialising in handmade bespoke orthopaedic shoes (Derbyshire).
- Birgit Frietman and Robyn Smith, horn workers – to set up a hub for horn working in London and reduce their carbon footprint by completing more processes in-house (London).
- Tom Frith-Powell, paper maker – to develop a gelatine sized paper as part of his commercial handmade papermaking charity (Cumbria).
- Bob Green, flint waller – to buy tools to enable him to develop and pass on his skills as a flint waller (Brighton).
- Steve Hogarth, building restorer – to add the skills of leadworking and flint masonry to his steeplejack business, maintaining the usefulness of traditional buildings without the impact of scaffolding (Derbyshire).
- William Holland, arrowsmith – to develop his arrowsmithing skills and master the reproduction of historically forged arrow heads, and to teach the craft to others (Carmarthenshire).
- Horace Batten, boot makers – to train an apprentice boot tree maker who will go on to work in-house at the boot making firm (Northamptonshire).
- Grace Horne, scissor maker – to create dies for the production of hot drop-forged scissor blanks that can be used by Grace and other makers to produce bespoke scissors (Sheffield).
- Lizzy Hughes, coppersmith – to develop her coppersmithing skills to include joinery, so that she’s able to make objects constructed from multiple parts such as buckets, watering cans and funnels, and to teach the craft (London).
- Scott Jeffrey, clockmaker – to fund the setup of wheel and pinion cutting in his clockmaking workshop, and offer wheels and pinions to the trade (Hampshire).
- Charlotte Kenward, reverse glass artist – to train and equip herself to offer traditional reverse gilded house numbers and signage to heritage properties (West Sussex).
- Anna Kettle, pargeter – to create short films to support the teaching of the craft of pargeting (Bedfordshire).
- Nicholas Konradsen, musical instrument maker – to research and make Lincolnshire bagpipes in a new workshop with more energy-efficient equipment (Lincolnshire).
- Nikki Laird, kiltmaker – to print a book on how to make a traditional hand sewn kilt (Edinburgh).
- Kate Longley, withy pot maker – to maintaining the skills and knowledge of withy crab and lobster pot making in the community of Gorran Haven (Cornwall).
- Steven Lowe, shoe last maker – to provide shoe last making courses covering including heel making (East Sussex).
- Fred Maillardet, millwright – to train milling volunteer Adam Winsor to be a millwright at Oldland Windmill in West Sussex and Wicken Windmill in Cambridgeshire (West Sussex).
- Michael May, folding knife maker – to equip his folding knife making apprentice with the tools he needs to learn all aspects of the trade (Sheffield).
- Lucy Mayes, pigment maker – to purchase equipment to produce a range of innovative and sustainable pigments from processing construction waste (London).
- Gail McGarva, boat builder – to equip a community workshop on the Solway Firth with tools needed to teach young people traditional clinker boatbuilding (Dumfries and Galloway).
- Jake Middleton-Metcalf, concertina maker – to be trained in making the critical working components of the English system concertina (Buckinghamshire).
- Tony Millyard, flute maker – to pass on flute making skills and to develop a new model of flute (Northamptonshire).
- Edie Obilaso, hat maker – to make hats from straw plait produced on an antique machine, and to document the craft (London).
- Dominic Parrette, green woodworker – to build shave horses to allow him to teach trainees how to make Sussex trug and Devon stave baskets (East Sussex).
- Ratsey & Lapthorne, sail makers – to train an apprentice sail maker to craftsman level while making sails for a historic yacht (Isle of Wight).
- Sarah Ready, withy pot maker – to develop her practice as a withy pot maker, producing pots for her son to fish with off the Devon coast, and to document the craft (Devon).
- Anna Rennie, maille maker – to apprentice to master maille maker Nick Checksfield, to learn how to restore and preserve original maille, and to become the first female professional maille maker (Cornwall).
- Clare Revera, basket maker – to develop and teach a Level 3 City & Guilds course on rare and endangered basket making skills at Westhope College (Glamorgan).
- Karl Schmidt, tinsmith – to reintroduce the critically endangered craft of tinsmithing to the UK through a specialist tinsmithing masterclass (United States).
- Rob Shaw, coach trimmer – to equip the coach trimming workshop of Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway to train more people in the community (North Yorkshire).
- Lorna Singleton, swill basket maker – to buy a boiler and swiller’s mares (a special type of shave horse) to enable her to teach oak swill basket making to small groups (Cumbria).
- James Slaven, sailmaker – to train in sailmaking with Mark Shiner and set up a workshop at the GalGael Trust making and repairing sails and repurposing old sailcloth (Glasgow).
- Travis Smith, hewer – to train in hand hewing of timber and apply his skills to the restoration and reconstruction of historical building and the construction of new ones (Hampshire).
- Gillian Stewart, bookbinder – to expand her bookbinding practice by training as a disappearing fore-edge painter, and to teach the craft (Glasgow).
- Stephanie Turnbull, lithographer – to trial the use of alternative types of limestone and other stone substrates for lithographic printing, and to publish her findings (Newport).
- Alex Ward, furniture maker – to develop his furniture making business to incorporate the production of moulding planes for fine furniture making, and to teach the craft of plane making (Shetland).
- Lois Walpole, basket maker – to publish a book on the critically endangered craft of kishie basket making (Shetland).
- Zoë Watson, kiltmaker – to train as a professional kiltmaker at the Kiltmakery in Edinburgh, after doing an introductory course as a 16-year-old student (Perthshire).
- Jessie Watson-Brown, Matthew Bailey and Jamey Rhind-Tutt, oak bark tanners – to equip a new tannery to produce traditional bark-tanned leather from wild deer skins (Devon).
- Richard Wheater, neon bender – to build a mobile neon bombarding and vacuum facility to teach neon bending to beginners and intermediate trainees (West Yorkshire).
- Deborah White, damask weaver – to restore and use a loom to teach damask weaving to a new generation of weavers (Northern Ireland).
- John Wills, coppersmith – to set up a tinsmithing and coppersmithing workshop that will also provide teaching, using renewable charcoal to heat the traditional soldering coppers (Northamptonshire).
