Scottish development agency creates role to advocate for contemporary craft
Craft Scotland’s newest recruit will champion the place of “contemporary craft”, in a freshly-created position as a creative direc…
Craft Scotland’s newest recruit will champion the place of “contemporary craft”, in a freshly-created position as a creative direc…
A festival that celebrates British craft production “from the kitchen table to the factory floor” has named ROSY GREENLEES OBE as…
A Cirencester arts centre which has been offering creative workshops and craft courses for nearly half a century is at risk of clo…
An annual showcase celebrating the artistry of lanterns and puppets has been forced to cancel this year’s festivities, after faili…
PHILIP HUGHES will step down from his role as director of Ruthin Craft Centre in Wales at the end of this month after 33 years in…
A museum that recreates rural life between the 12th and 20th centuries has appointed an interim director, following the departure…
A councillor suspended by his local party amid a dispute over the proposed closure of Sunderland’s National Glass Centre (NGC) h…
A growing range of traditional craft skills in the UK are under threat of disappearing within a generation, according to a new rep…
The London-based charity Work and Play Scrapstore, which repurposes waste and surplus goods as arts and crafts materials, has…
An annual community festival in Sheffield has cancelled this year’s event due to a lack of funding. The Sharrow Festival, which us…
The Crafts Council has closed its twice-yearly Crafts magazine due to “ever-rising costs” and declining advertising revenue. T…
ANNA GOUGH-YATES has been named the new CEO of West Dean College. She succeeds ALEXANDER BARRON at the West Sussex-based scho…
Stoke-on-Trent has been named a World Craft City, a status granted to areas with excellent social, cultural and economic cont…
A charity’s campaign to raise money to pay for vulnerable and disadvantaged people to attend creative classes has hit its &p…
East London-based charity Craft Central will close its doors at the end of the month, citing financial pressures including high re…
National Portfolio Organisation says cultural sector 'faces one of its most testing moments in recent history'.
A heritage project to explore, celebrate and preserve the heritage crafts of refugee and asylum seeker communities in Rochdale wil…
The charity aims to train a new generation in vanishing heritage skills needed to preserve endangered historic properties, includi…
Cathedral York Minster has launched an appeal to raise £4m towards a new centre for ancient craft skills. The Centre o…
Traditional craft skills are "on the verge of extinction" in the UK, according to new research. Five new skills have bee…
Two arts projects focusing on forestry and sustainability in Scotland have received National Lottery support in the recent round o…
Effects of pandemic and inability to attract tenants for spare office space see Crafts Council record financial loss.
A £29m government fund includes ringfenced support to increase volunteering and arts, culture and heritage offers in 27 targ…
Are the UK's traditional craft skills in danger? Mary Lewis explains what’s being done to safeguard and celebrate herita…