The first round of the Heritage Crafts Awards in 2024 are now open for nominations, with seven awards up for grabs, with support from the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, the Marsh Charitable Trust, and the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust. Deadline for applications: 24 May 2024.
These training bursaries, sponsored by The Royal Mint, are targeted at trainees and prospective trainees of crafts involving precious metals who are experiencing financial hardship.
Deadline for applications:
Friday 23 February, 5pm.
These training bursaries, sponsored by the Golsoncott Foundation and Jennifer Chen, are targeted at trainees and prospective musical instrument making trainees who are experiencing financial hardship.
Deadline for applications:
Friday 23 February, 5pm.
These training bursaries, sponsored by the Costume Society, are targeted at trainees and prospective trainees of fashion textile crafts who are experiencing financial hardship.
Deadline for applications:
Friday 23 February, 5pm.
Winner of the 2023 Heritage Crafts / Marsh Maker of the Year Award The Heritage Crafts/Marsh Maker of the Year award was won by traditional sign painter Andrew Grundon. Andrew is a specialist in the rare craft of hand painting, lettering, and carving of pictorial signs. He has established an international reputation at the forefront of […]
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Traditional sign painter Andrew Grundon has won Maker of the Year in the 2023 Heritage Crafts Awards, presented at the College of St George, Windsor Castle on 15 November 2023, sponsored by The Royal Mint. The award, supported by the Marsh Charitable Trust, was one of 14 revealed at the ceremony introduced by Heritage Crafts Co-Chair Jay Blades MBE.