Awards

The Heritage Crafts awards

Heritage Crafts set up the prestigious Heritage Crafts Awards in 2012. We are indebted to our partner organisations for providing funding to allow us to present a unique suite of awards and bursaries specifically for traditional crafts. We are so grateful for this generous support.

The Heritage Crafts Awards celebrate and highlight the traditional living crafts made in the UK that contribute to our national heritage, such as weaving, wood turning, basket making, furniture making and upholstery, shoe making, metal, stone and clay crafts, textile crafts such as weaving, embroidery, knitting and lace making, the lettering crafts, boat building and similar other crafts where there is a significant degree of hand skill at the point of manufacture.

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President’s Award for Endangered Crafts

£3,000

Wales Maker of the Year Award

£1,000

Scotland Maker of the Year Award

£1,000

Northern Ireland Maker of the Year Award

£1,000

England Maker of the Year Award

£1,000

Trainer of the Year Award

£1,000

Trainee of the Year Award

£1,000

Community Catalyst of the Year Award

£1,000

Lifetime Achievement Award

£1,000

Previous award winners

Lucy Barlow – hat maker

Sally Morrison – watch dial enameller

Tom Ball – woodcarver

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Message from the Former Prince of Wales

“As President of the Heritage Crafts Association, I am delighted to endorse this new awards scheme which supports and rewards excellence in the heritage craft sector.

Crafts are such a vital part of our British heritage and I have always been passionately concerned to promote the best aspects of our country’s traditions ― and, equally importantly, to enable these highly specialised skills to be transferred from one generation to the next.

These new awards for heritage craft celebrate excellence across the sector in a variety of ways. They reward those who give so much by volunteering to support the many different crafts, those who pass on their skills, those who wish to improve their craft skills and those who continue to produce great British craft.”