Training Bursaries for Precious Metal Crafts
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Heritage Crafts and The Royal Mint have launched four new training bursaries for precious metal workers to preserve and champion traditional British craftsmanship skills, following the success of the last two years’ bursaries.
The four successful applicants of the 2025 bursary scheme will benefit from up to £4,000 in funding each, as well as one-to-one support from the staff at Heritage Crafts.
The new bursaries follow nine previous training bursaries awarded to early-career practitioners of precious metal crafts since 2023. Last year’s bursary recipients included jewellery makers Richard Barber and Andreia Gomes, armourer Horatio Hawes and silver spinner Lily Smith.
The bursaries are provided to help cover or subsidise the cost of training for new entrants and early-career practitioners who would otherwise be prevented from pursuing this career path as a result of the cost. Precious metal crafts are those which feature precious metal as a primary material, such as jewellery making, silversmithing, coppersmithing, gilding, hand engraving, medal making, silver spinning, metal thread embroidery, engine turning and concert flute making.
The precious metal bursaries announced this week sit alongside others in fashion textiles (supported by the Costume Society), leatherworking (supported by the Leathersellers’ Foundation and the British Leather Industry Development Trust), calligraphy and illumination (supported by the Society of Scribes and Illuminators) and maritime rope and twine crafts (supported by International Guild of Knot Tyers). Additional bursaries for other crafts will open in April.
To find out more including how to apply (deadline 7 March) visit www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/opp.../training-bursaries
