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David Canter Memorial Fund

Call for Applications: David Canter Memorial Fund The David Canter Memorial Fund offers grants to craftspeople. The fund is open to those who have finished their formal training and are working full-time or part-time and need money for specific projects, e.g. setting up a workshop, buying equipment, educational work, or research and travel. Awards are usually up to a maximum of £500 and are given every other year, each time focusing on different craft disciplines. In 2026, working with our Green Maker Initiative , the fund will support makers in reducing their environmental impact within their craft practice. The

Maker Relief Fund

Maker Relief Fund - support for craftspeople who need it most Many craftspeople are facing significant challenges in sustaining their practice, due to a combination of financial pressures and systemic marginalising factors. Heritage Crafts’ Maker Relief Fund is targeted at people facing financial hardship while striving to make their living as a professional craftsperson. It is based on the principles that: the best way to safeguard the UK’s intangible craft heritage is to support the individuals within whom that knowledge and skill resides; and such individuals are the best arbiters of their own need, deserve to be treated with

Endangered Crafts Fund 2025

Endangered Crafts Fund Small grants to help the most at-risk crafts Deadline: Friday 17 October 2025 at 5pm Heritage Crafts invites craft practitioners and organisations in the UK to apply for small grants to fund projects that support endangered crafts (the craft must be listed as endangered or critically endangered on the current Red List of Endangered Crafts ). A number of grants are ringfenced for Essex, East Sussex, West Sussex, and Brighton and Hove, but those outside of these areas are also eligible to apply. Heritage Crafts published the fifth edition of its groundbreaking Red List of Endangered Crafts

Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open 2022

Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open 28 January – 9 April 2022 Jerwood Arts , London Anna Berry | Cecilia Charlton | Jahday Ford | Vicky Higginson | Francisca Onumah and Helena Russell Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open returns in 2022 for its eighth edition, showcasing new work by Anna Berry , Cecilia Charlton , Jahday Ford , Vicky Higginson and Francisca Onumah and Helena Russell . The se outstanding early-career artists and makers are displaying their commissions at Jerwood Space , London until 9 April 2022. Showcasing a broad range of material disciplines, including glass, textiles, digital modelling, silversmithing and

News Briefing: 17 August 2025

A curated edit of this week's national and international jewellery news... Luxury Jeweller Fabergé Sold to Tech Investor in $50 Million Deal The Guardian, 11 August 2025 for BoF: The renowned jeweller known for its imperial Russian Easter eggs, has been sold to technology investor Sergei Mosunov’s SMG Capital for $50 million, as its parent company Gemfields seeks to fund its mining operations. www.businessoffashion.com Luxury jeweller Fabergé sold to tech investor in $50m deal Lauren Almeida, 11 August 2025 for The Guardian: Gemfields, which owns brand, agrees deal with SMG Capital, controlled by Sergei Mosunov. www.theguardian.com Luxury jewellery brand Faberge

PRESS RELEASE: Brigadier Ed Butler CBE DSO appointed 698th Prime Warden

Brigadier Ed Butler CBE DSO has been appointed 698th Prime Warden (chairperson-equivalent) of the Goldsmiths’ Company – a new Prime Warden is elected from the Court of Assistants (board-equivalent) every year. Now a highly respected specialist in strategic risk and resilience, Ed spent 24 years serving in the British Army, achieving his career ambition at the age of 38 when he took command of 22 SAS (the 22nd Special Air Service regiment). He chairs the Lloyds’ Patriotic Fund, chairs the Development Committee of the Clocktower Foundation (the SAS charity), and is City Colonel, Rifles’ Regiment for Greater London. A self-professed