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Press releases

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

  • 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

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