New £23.5k round of awards and bursaries launched

This year the Heritage Crafts Association is delighted to be partnering with the Marsh Christian Trust, The Arts Society and the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust to offer a suite of awards and bursaries to celebrate and highlight traditional living crafts. In all £23,500 is available.

Previous 2016 HCA Maker of the Year, Allan Shiers, said:

The HCA income frees you up to do some things you would not otherwise been able to do – the ideas that lurked in the long grass but really needed to be given time. I’ve completed my new idea for a new semi-tone device and written up a dossier for it – so far we’ve a had a lot of interest from all over the world. We also used the publicity from the HCA Award for our website/social media and had an article in the local newspaper. After 40 years making harps, it was quite a special moment for me to have some recognition for all the hard work and skills passed on.

You can read more experiences of previous winners here.

Applications for this year’s awards open 1 September 2017 and the deadline is 30 November 2017.

Apply today at awards.heritagecrafts.org.uk.