Woodcarver Tom Ball has won the second annual Woodworker of the Year Award sponsored by Axminster Tools, including a £2,000 prize and trophy awarded at a special presentation at St George’s College, Windsor Castle on Wednesday 15 November 2023.
This report arises from the 2022 survey of traditional boatbuilding skills we carried out in partnership with the Wooden Boatbuilders Trade Association. Its aims were to raise awareness, to create a list of endangered skills, and to consult with the boatbuilding community to develop an action plan to safeguard these skills as part of our […]
The family of the late master hand grinder Brian Alcock have received a posthumous British Empire Medal in the King’s Birthday Honours in recognition of his service to the Sheffield cutlery trade and heritage crafts, along with five other makers nominated by Heritage Crafts.
Carter’s Steam Fair is a nationally-important vintage funfair and the finest example of the endangered craft of fairground art in the UK. There is now a very significant risk of the collection being broken up if it can’t find a new owner and a permanent home.
The Royal Mint has partnered with Heritage Crafts to award five bursaries to preserve and champion traditional craft skills related to precious metals. Shortlisters selected five successful recipients, all of whom show huge potential through for various reasons require additional support in order to progress their careers.
The Royal Mint has partnered with Heritage Crafts to launch four bursaries to preserve and champion traditional British craftmanship skills. As Britain’s oldest business and the original maker of UK coins and precious metals, it hopes to utilise its expertise in craftmanship to ensure that precious metal craft skills are passed on to the next generation.
London based luthier Jonathan Hill has won the inaugural Woodworker of the Year Award sponsored by Axminster Tools, including a £2,000 prize and trophy awarded at at a special presentation at the House of Lords on Monday 30 January 2023.
Suffolk-based pargeter Johanna Welsh has won the 2022 President’s Award for Endangered Crafts. The prestigious award, and £3,000 bursary, was initiated by Heritage Crafts’ President The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, before his Accession as HM King Charles III.
Tinsmithing skills have been passed on to a new generation of makers in unique masterclasses, organised with the generous support of The Worshipful Company of Tinplate Workers Alias Wireworkers and Heritage Crafts’ Endangered Crafts Fund.
Heritage Crafts and the City & Guilds Foundation are delighted to award two new bursaries for Black and ethnically diverse trainees in heritage crafts to early-career basketmaker Michelle Mateo and mid-career stone carver Marcia Bennett Male.
We are delighted to announce that David Clarke and Jay Blades MBE will be leading our Board of Trustees as Co-Chairs over the next three years. We believe that the Co-Chairing approach will serve us well as it enters a new strategic period responding to a country undergoing rapid social, financial, political and environmental changes.