FAQs

Heritage Crafts is the UK charity set up to celebrate, support and safeguard traditional craft skills, and to facilitate a national conversation about their importance to everyone now and in the future.

Heritage Crafts defines a heritage craft as a craft that:

• employs manual dexterity and skill at the point of production;
• requires an understanding of traditional materials, design and techniques; and
• has been practised for two or more successive generations.

Please email Mary at [email protected] with your query about the crafts list.

The crafts list is the research list compiled and updated by Heritage Crafts on all of the heritage crafts in the UK, which is updated alongside the Red List of Endangered Crafts every two years.

The Makers Directory is a Heritage Crafts membership benefit that allows any of the charity’s members to have a profile to showcase their work as a maker.

The charity is 100% remote and does not have a bricks-and-mortar office.

Anyone. Heritage Crafts membership is open to all, whether you are a professional craftsperson, an amateur maker, or someone who is craft curious.

Yes. We have members from across the world and are grateful for our international members’ support.

No. Our membership is a program that provides support to the charity while simultaneously building a community of makers and craft curious people alike who wish to support, engage and learn more about Heritage Crafts. 

If you run your own business solo, become an individual member. If your business has multiple people who would like to receive membership benefits, then become a business member (up to five people can receive membership digital content). 

Yes. 

Yes. 

It depends on the funding opportunity and the amount of applicants.

The Endangered Crafts Fund is for practitioners of at-risk crafts featured on the Red List of Endangered Crafts to overcome an obstacle or undertake a project to make their craft more likely to survive.

Training bursaries are for new entrants or early career craftspeople who are unable to progress because of the cost of training.

Heritage Crafts Awards are for recognition of something you have achieved, and usually come with a cash prize.