Heritage Crafts
Coverage explores the preservation and promotion of traditional craftsmanship within the jewellery trade. Stories include profiles of skilled makers, initiatives supporting endangered techniques, and collaborations that bridge heritage skills with contemporary design. Content highlights how training, funding, and advocacy efforts help sustain artisanal expertise, ensuring that craft heritage continues to influence quality, authenticity, and creativity across the UK jewellery industry.
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Sep- 2025 -4 SeptemberEvents
Goldsmithsโ Landmark Programme reaches more than 1,600 people in first year
The Goldsmithsโ Foundation has marked the first anniversary of its Landmark Programme with the publication of its inaugural Impact Report, showing the initiative has reached 1,601 people across prisons, schools and communities in its first year. Launched in November 2023, the programme awarded four multi-year grants of ยฃ500,000 each to…
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May- 2025 -14 MayManufacturers
Silver allied trades added to endangered craft list
Heritage Crafts has announced that the silver allied trades have been added to its Red List of Endangered Crafts for the first time. Red List of Endangered Crafts is a bi-annual report listing traditional craft skills in the UK at risk of disappearing. As a result of this, the Goldsmithsโ…
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Apr- 2025 -28 AprilDesigners
Gemfields partners with PureJewels on emerald-themed collection
Gemfields has announced that it has partnered with PureJewels on the emerald-themed Zariya collection to combine emeralds from Gemfieldsโ Kagem mine in Zambia with designs inspired by the fresh buds of May. Taking its name from the Hindi word โZariyaโ, meaning a medium, source, or pathway, the collection was inspired…
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Feb- 2024 -1 FebruaryManufacturers
Heritage Crafts and The Royal Mint launch new bursaries
The Royal Mint and Heritage Crafts have announced four new bursaries for precious metal workers to preserve and champion traditional British craftsmanship skills. The four successful applicants of the 2024 bursary scheme will benefit from up to ยฃ4,000 in funding each, as well as one-to-one support from the staff at…
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Feb- 2023 -14 FebruaryManufacturers
Heritage Crafts and The Royal Mint launch training bursaryย
The Royal Mint has partnered with Heritage Crafts to launch four bursaries to โpreserve and championโ traditional British craftsmanship skills in precious metals.ย It comes as Heritage Crafts said that many are dissuaded from training in precious metal heritage crafts because of the cost, and therefore โthe make-up of the…
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Jan- 2015 -29 JanuaryEvents
Engraver presented with lifetime achievement award
Renowned engraver and silversmith Malcolm Appleby MBE has been awarded a lifetime achievement award on behalf of the Hand Engravers Association.ย The honour was awarded to Appleby by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham at the โTraining for Trainersโ event on Saturday January 24. The award was in acknowledgment for Applebyโs…
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