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Birmingham Bench: Jewellery Artist Tutor Trainee, Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) - Birmingham

Birmingham Bench: Jewellery Artist Tutor Trainee x3 Midlands Arts Centre Birmingham Bursary: £4250 Hours: 1 day per week (roughly 28 days in total) Length: 7 months Start Date: January 2027, with an induction in December Location: On-site at Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on Sun 1 November 2026. Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is excited to announce the Birmingham Bench , a paid trainee programme for three Birmingham-based Jewellers supported by the Goldsmiths’ Foundation. The Birmingham Bench is a paid trainee programme that provides work placement shadowing, mentoring, and a practical route into teaching and freelance

Trustees of the South House Workshop Trust Announce 2025 Scholars

The Trustees of the South House Workshop Trust are delighted to announce ELEVEN fully-funded silversmithing graduate scholarships for 2025. These residential scholarships are being made available to accelerate the professional careers of promising silversmiths. Each scholarship is for a period of one month or two months, learning a variety of silversmithing skills in an intensive residential placement either in Shetland or Sheffield with master silversmiths Rod Kelly, Brett Payne and Chris Perry. The scholarships include the cost of tuition, travel, accommodation and a subsistence bursary. Each one month scholarship has a value of £5250.00. The training will cover in detail:

PRESS RELEASE: Goldsmiths’ Fair partners with The Betts Group to support emerging British Businesses with X-ray silver

The Betts Group, which has provided quality and service from the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter for more than 260 years, has partnered with Goldsmiths’ Fair, supporting the recipients of its 2025 Emerging Business Bursary programme with a gift of four kilograms of AgAIN silver bullion, which is made from reclaimed silver from medical X-ray films. Goldsmiths’ Fair has been the place to see, try, and buy the UKs best independently made contemporary fine jewellery and silver, and meet the craftspeople who design and make it since 1983. One of the Goldsmiths’ Company’s key initiatives in support of

Bishopsland Pop-up @ Goldsmiths Centre

Bishopsland Pop-up @ Goldsmiths Centre 12 June 2025 Meet our current cohort at the Goldsmiths Centre An opportunity to meet and chat with our hugely talented 2024/5 cohort and witness their development as we move towards the end of their intensive Bishopsland vocational skills training programme. This is a lovely, exclusive event in the wonderful setting of the Goldsmiths Centre with ample opportunity to talk to the makers about their journey and planned next steps. Bursary support is generously provided by the following, which many of the Emerging Makers on our programme rely : The Benevolent Society, South Square Trust,

Eric N Smith 1949 – 2019

1 June 1949 – 3 April 2019 Scottish jeweller Eric N Smith has passed away at the age of 69. The jeweller was a celebrated designer, master craftsman and jewellery business owner for more that 50 years. Smith was born in Ralston, Paisley, the elder of two children to Margaret and Alexander Smith, a Senior Designer at the Templeton Carpet Factory in Glasgow. Eric attended the Croftfoot Primary and King’s Park Secondary, and later secured a bursary to complete his secondary education at the independent Allan Glen’s School, Glasgow. He went on to study at Glasgow School of Art where

Davina Mallinckrodt Appointed as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Cockpit Arts

Davina has been confirmed in the role on 8th April 2021, following her appointment as Chair-Elect in December 2020. She succeeds Cornelius Medvei, who has held the post for the past nine years. Davina joins Cockpit following a year in which the award-winning social enterprise and leading creative business incubator has successfully supported its 150 strong maker community through the pandemic. In addition to the 40 young creative businesses receiving awards and bursary support, in 2020/21 Cockpit has provided substantially reduced rents to its makers at its two hubs, Cockpit Holborn and Cockpit Deptford and successfully pivoted to digital delivery

Applications Now Open: Cockpit Awards & Bursaries

Applications Now Open: Cockpit Awards & Bursaries Deadline: Sunday 27 September at midnight Cockpit is now inviting applications for 6 Awards and Bursaries this autumn. This round's Awards & Bursaries include: Glass Sellers' Award – Glass ALMAW Award – Wood & Textiles Broderers' Award – Embroidery Turners' Award – Wood Turning Arts Society GLA Award – Traditional and heritage craft skills Basketmakers' Award – Basketmaking Each Award or Bursary offers subsidised studio space at Cockpit’s Bloomsbury or Deptford sites (subject to availability), access to specialist equipment (depending on the Award), tailored business support, and membership of Cockpit’s vibrant maker community,