Second round of Heritage Crafts Awards 2024 open
25th June 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS | OUR STORIES
Deadline: 7 June 2024, 5pm
The second round of the Heritage Crafts Awards in 2024 are now open for nominations, with 12 award categories up for grabs. The Awards, which have been running since 2012, celebrate and highlight the traditional living crafts that contribute to British heritage.
Five of the awards celebrate heritage craftspeople who have made an outstanding contribution to working with a particular material or skill over the past year. They recognise a contribution that is far beyond the ordinary, based on a proven dedication to their craft of precious metalworking, woodworking, fashion textiles, leatherworking or pottery. Each of these awards is accompanied by a prize of £2,000.
Seven other awards celebrate young heritage craftspeople aged 25 or under who have made an outstanding start to their craft careers. The award winners will be highly skilled amongst their peers, whilst raising the perceived value of their craft through sharing and awareness raising. They will have given themselves a fantastic chance of achieving long-term success, perhaps overcoming disadvantage or setbacks along the way. These awards will be presented for woodworking, metalworking, leatherworking, building crafts, upholstery, weaving and embroidery and will be accompanied by a prize of £1,000.
List of awards open until 6 September 2024:
- Precious Metalworker of the Year – supported by The Royal Mint
- Woodworker of the Year – supported by Axminster Tools
- Fashion and Textile Maker of the Year – supported by the Costume Society
- Leatherworker of the Year – supported by the British Leather Industry Development Trust
- Potter of the Year – supported by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation
- Young Woodworker of the Year – supported by Axminster Tools
- Young Metalworker of the Year – supported by Lucy and Laurence Butcher
- Young Leatherworker of the Year – supported by the Leathersellers’ Foundation
- Young Building Craftsperson of the Year – supported by English Heritage
- Young Upholsterer of the Year – supported by Sonnaz Ltd
- Young Weaver of the Year – supported by Rose Uniacke
- Young Embroiderer of the Year – supported by the Broderers’ Company
Anyone, including the makers themselves, can nominate for this award. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 6 September 2024 and you can find out more about each award, via the button below. The award winners will be announced at a high-profile Winners’ Reception in November 2024.
This follows a first round of awards which closed on 12 June, including the President’s Award for Endangered Crafts, Environmental Sustainability Award, Maker of the Year for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, Trainer of the Year, Trainee of the Year, Community Catalyst of the Year, and the Lifetime Achievement Award.