Stoke-on-Trent awarded World Craft City status
Stoke-on-Trent has been named a World Craft City, a status granted to areas with excellent social, cultural and economic cont…
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Campaign for free craft workshops reaches fundraising target
A charity’s campaign to raise money to pay for vulnerable and disadvantaged people to attend creative classes has hit its &p…
Craft Central to close due to financial pressures
East London-based charity Craft Central will close its doors at the end of the month, citing financial pressures including high re…
Jobs go at Crafts Council as revenue shrinks
National Portfolio Organisation says cultural sector 'faces one of its most testing moments in recent history'.
Funding for traditional heritage crafts project in Rochdale
A heritage project to explore, celebrate and preserve the heritage crafts of refugee and asylum seeker communities in Rochdale wil…
English Heritage launches £11m apprenticeship programme
The charity aims to train a new generation in vanishing heritage skills needed to preserve endangered historic properties, includi…
York Minster in £4m appeal for heritage craft skills centre
Cathedral York Minster has launched an appeal to raise £4m towards a new centre for ancient craft skills. The Centre o…
Growing number of craft skills ‘under threat’
Traditional craft skills are "on the verge of extinction" in the UK, according to new research. Five new skills have bee…
Lottery support for forestry arts projects in Scotland
Two arts projects focusing on forestry and sustainability in Scotland have received National Lottery support in the recent round o…
Crafts Council reports first financial loss in four years
Effects of pandemic and inability to attract tenants for spare office space see Crafts Council record financial loss.
Funding boost for arts and culture activities in deprived areas
A £29m government fund includes ringfenced support to increase volunteering and arts, culture and heritage offers in 27 targ…
Safeguarding heritage craft skills for the future
Are the UK's traditional craft skills in danger? Mary Lewis explains what’s being done to safeguard and celebrate herita…
Scottish bursaries for artists and craft makers
Visual artists and craft makers in Scotland can now apply for bursaries to put towards their creative development. The Visual Arti…
Mass gift-making as a shared symbolic act
With athletes about to arrive in Birmingham for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, a mass gift-making initiative has been underway to we…
Rural art projects in Northern Ireland get £1.5m boost
New art fund launches to address needs of local rural communities as they emerge from the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Crafts charity rebrands for inclusive future
Crafts charity Devon Guild of Craftsmen has rebranded to MAKE Southwest ahead of redevelopment plans. A spokesperson said the new…
Arts company says ‘art should be a safe space for debate’ amid transphobia row
Artichoke says it will keep Jess de Wahls' contribution to exhibition which provides a platform for "all women, tran…
People need places (and vice versa)
Caitlin Warfield writes that the future of culture and business in urban centres depends on their ability to work together.
55,000 arts jobs lost since lockdown
"This is clear evidence of the existence and the scale of a jobs crisis," researchers say.
Societal trends have produced a fertile market for British crafts
The growth of online sales has expanded the craft market and provided more opportunities for disabled people, but fears are growin…
A gentle way to change the world
The combination of the pandemic and impending climate change means the world we have known is about to change. As young people wor…
Creative conversations to start the day
How do you keep connected in our Covid-19 world? #CreativeNetwork is a chance to talk about creative responses to enforc…
Crafting support for Scottish arts
Eleven Scottish visual arts organisations have banded together to improve opportunities for artists and show their worth to policy…
Saving our living heritage for the future
Patricia Lovett makes the case for protecting and promoting historical crafts – an industry larger than British textiles.
