Awards
The Heritage Crafts awards
Nominations are now open with a closing date of 1 July 2025
Heritage Crafts set up the prestigious Heritage Crafts Awards in 2012. We are indebted to our partner organisations for providing funding to allow us to present a unique suite of awards and bursaries specifically for traditional crafts. We are so grateful for this generous support.
The Heritage Crafts Awards celebrate and highlight the traditional living crafts made in the UK that contribute to our national heritage, such as silversmithing, leatherworking, dressmaking and tailoring, upholstery, weaving, embroidery and similar other crafts where there is a significant degree of hand skill at the point of manufacture.
Click on the relevant awards below to find out more and to nominate yourself or someone else.
Please note that all awards nominations now use the same application form, so you can nominate yourself or someone else for multiple awards in one go, rather than completing separate forms!
Nominate yourself or someone else
Lifetime Achievement Award
Community Catalyst of the Year Award
Trainee of the Year Award
Scotland Maker of the Year Award
Northern Ireland Maker of the Year Award
England Maker of the Year Award
Wales Maker of the Year Award
Trainer of the Year Award
Maker of the Year Award
Environmental Sustainability Award
Precious Metalworker of the Year Award
Fashion and Textile Maker of the Year Award
Emerging Metalworker of the Year Award
Emerging Leatherworker of the Year Award
Emerging Upholsterer of the Year Award
Emerging Weaver of the Year Award
Emerging Embroiderer of the Year Award
Message from HM The King
“As President of the Heritage Crafts Association, I am delighted to endorse this new awards scheme which supports and rewards excellence in the heritage craft sector.
Crafts are such a vital part of our British heritage and I have always been passionately concerned to promote the best aspects of our country’s traditions ― and, equally importantly, to enable these highly specialised skills to be transferred from one generation to the next.
These new awards for heritage craft celebrate excellence across the sector in a variety of ways. They reward those who give so much by volunteering to support the many different crafts, those who pass on their skills, those who wish to improve their craft skills and those who continue to produce great British craft.”
Previous award winners
NICK GILL – TYPECASTER AND LETTERPRESS PRINTER
Lucy Barlow – hat maker
Sally Morrison – watch dial enameller
