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
- 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
