Please find below press releases from the Heritage Crafts Association.
Please contact the HCA for large versions of images, quotes, and to arrange interviews: info@heritagecrafts.org.uk
Recent press releases
- June 2022 MBE for wheelwright Greg Rowland in the Jubilee Birthday Honours
- May 2022 Heritage Crafts and the Museum of Making collaborate to save endangered tinsmithing skills
- May 2022 City & Guilds Foundation and Heritage Crafts announce new bursary for Black and minority ethnic trainees
- May 2022 Heritage Crafts and Sussex Heritage Trust award millwrighting grant
- May 2022 Axminster Tools and Heritage Crafts announce new partnership
- March 2022 Six new grants awarded to help save endangered crafts from extinction
- October 2021 Eight new grants awarded to help save endangered crafts from extinction
- September 2021 HCA partners with Rose Uniacke on new textiles collection
- August 2021 Watchmaker Rebecca Struthers wins President’s Award initiated by HRH The Prince of Wales
- May 2021 Craft skills under threat with 27 additions to the HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts
- March 2021 Nine new grants awarded to help save endangered crafts from extinction
- March 2021 Launch of the 2021 President’s Award for Endangered Crafts supported by HRH The Prince of Wales
- December 2020 MBE for Buckinghamshire straw worker Veronica Main
- December 2020 Hat making in Luton facing crisis with the closure of ‘Peaky Blinders’ company Olney Headwear
- October 2020 Research begins on the 2021 endangered crafts list supported by the Pilgrim Trust
- October 2020 Five new grants awarded to help save endangered crafts from extinction
- July 2020 Heritage Crafts Association steps up support with funding from the Swire Charitable Trust
- March 2020 Eight new grants awarded to help save endangered crafts from extinction
- March 2020 President’s Award for Endangered Crafts supported by HRH The Prince of Wales
- February 2020 Sale of business could be ‘make or break’ for the critically endangered craft of metal thread making
- February 2020 Trainee sought to help secure the endangered craft of boot tree making
- December 2019 Three MBEs awarded to heritage craftspeople
- December 2019 MBE for Torquay glass sign artist David A Smith
- December 2019 MBE for Hertfordshire upholsterer Wendy Shorter-Blake
- December 2019 MBE for Cheshire chair caner Brian Crossley
- August 2019 Flutemaking trainee sought to avert craft extinction
- July 2019 New fund inundated with proposals to save endangered crafts
- March 2019 Craft skills under threat with 37 additions to the Red List of Endangered Crafts
- September 2018 Research project aims to shine light on the plight of endangered crafts
