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Heritage Crafts Bursary awards available
« on: September 06, 2017, 01:56:06 PM »
I have just received this email from Heritage Crafts.  If you would like a copy of the original email please email me on my chairman email address.

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Dave

NEWS:  Apply now for Heritage Crafts awards and bursaries


New £23.5k round of awards and bursaries launched

The Heritage Crafts Association (HCA) is pleased to announce a call for applications for a suite of awards and bursaries recognising people working in traditional skills.
 
Craftspeople can be nominated for Heritage Crafts Maker of the Year, HCA/Marsh Trainer of the Year, and HCA/Marsh Volunteer of the Year. Nominations can also be made for the HCA/Marsh Heritage Crafts ‘Made in Britain’ Award.  Each award is worth £1,000.
 
One bursary offered with the support of The Arts Society and worth up to £1,500 is also available, aimed at assisting the training of apprentices or those training to become craftspeople in heritage crafts. The HCA/Arts Society bursary can contribute, amongst other things, towards buying of tools or materials, the costs of attending specialist training, buying books or payment for training with a craftsperson.
 
There is also one Heritage Crafts Scholarship bursary offered of up to £18,000 with the support of The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST). The HCA/QEST Scholarship is for those who have completed an apprenticeship or equivalent and are of a reasonable standard in their craft and wish to take their training further in order to enhance their craft career.

The deadline for applications is 30th November 2017. The awards will be presented at the Heritage Crafts Association’s Annual Conference in March 2018.
 
Heritage crafts make up the largest part of the craft sector, yet many heritage crafts are endangered – see The Radcliffe Red List of Endangered Crafts for more information. By funding these bursaries and awards the Heritage Craft Association and our partners, The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, The Arts Society and the Marsh Christian Trust, are helping people learn and preserve these heritage craft skills and heritage crafts.
 
The awards and bursaries make it possible to give recognition to the amazing work being done by skilled craftspeople and volunteers, and the contribution of heritage crafts to the UK economy. They also make it possible for people to develop their knowledge and passion for heritage crafts, and help ensure these crafts may continue to be enjoyed and practiced by future generations.
Harp maker Allan Shiers was awarded HCA Maker of the Year in 2016.

 Allan said:
The HCA income frees you up to do some things you would not otherwise have been able to do – the ideas that lurked in the long grass but really needed to be given time. We also used the publicity from the HCA Award for our website/social media and had an article in the local newspaper. After 40 years making harps, it was quite a special moment for me to have some recognition for all the hard work and skills passed on.
Recipients of the Heritage Crafts Association awards and bursaries  in 2017 included:
•   The last remaining professional fore-edge painter Martin Frost who was awarded Maker of the Year. Martin took up the craft of vanishing fore-edge painting in 1970, continuing an English tradition that dates back to the 17th century. Since then he has produced over 3,300 edge-paintings, many on carefully restored antique books.  His commitment to the craft and untiring efforts to raise its profile have won him respect from fellow craftspeople and collectors alike.
•   Leather worker Candice Lau was awarded the HCA/QEST training scholarship. Largely self-taught, Candice designs bespoke leatherwork from her design workshop/studio. The award will enable Candice to attend an intensive 3-month course at the renowned Italian school of leatherwork in Florence, the Scuola di Cuoio, to enhance her technical skills.
•   Shoemaker Frances Pinnock was awarded the HCA/NADFAS training bursary to study with cordwainers Carréducker and pattern cutter Fiona Campbell, and to buy the tools and equipment needed to further her career.
•   Pamela Emerson was awarded HCA/Marsh Volunteer of the Year for her work with NI Big Sock, a community project involving the creation of a world record breaking patchwork Christmas stocking. Pamela devised the project as a way of highlighting sewing as a valuable skill, celebrating Northern Irish traditions of linen production and shirt making, and bringing communities together in the process.
•   Alistair McCallum was awarded the HCA/Marsh Trainer of the Year award. A silversmith who exhibits nationally and internationally and one of the leading practitioners of the Japanese metalworking technique of Mokume Gane, he has been tireless in his efforts to pass on his skills to the next generation of makers.
•   Deborah Carré and James Ducker won the HCA/Marsh Made in Britain award. Their company, Carréducker makes bespoke shoes using the best materials sourced from British suppliers: lasts from Northampton, oak bark soling leather from Devon, exotics from Walsall, and patterns made and shoes stitched by specialists in Wales, Bristol and London. Their vision is to reignite the British shoe industry.
 
 Martin Frost, last remaining professional ore-edge painter being awarded his Maker of the Year Award in 2017 by Ian Keys, Chair of the Heritage Craft Association. Photo: Daniel Carpenter
 
The awards and bursaries have been made possible through the generous support of the Heritage Crafts Association’s funding partners, The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) the Marsh Christian Trust and The Arts Society.
   
Patricia Lovett MBE, Vice-Chair of the Heritage Crafts Association, said:
‘The heritage crafts sector in England alone contributes £4.4 billion GVA to the UK economy each year, as much as the petrochemical industry. But for many years it has been completely ignored and is still not supported by the government. However, these bursaries and awards are a real boost for heritage crafts and craftspeople and mean it is a great time to be working in heritage crafts.’
 
For more information about the Heritage Crafts Association awards and bursaries, please visit http://awards.heritagecrafts.org.uk/
 
Contact:         Sally Morgan
Website:         www.heritagecrafts.org.uk
Email:             info@heritagecrafts.org.uk
Twitter:           @heritage_crafts
Facebook:     www.facebook.com/heritagecraftsassociation
 
 
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Notes to editors:
1.   The Heritage Crafts Association is the advocacy body for traditional heritage crafts and works in partnership with Government and key agencies.
2.   The Heritage Crafts Association was established in 2009 to provide a focus for craftspeople, groups, societies and guilds, as well as people who care about the loss of traditional crafts skills, and works towards a healthy and sustainable framework for the future.
3.   More than 210,000 people in England work in heritage crafts businesses and heritage crafts businesses contribute £4.4 billion in gross value added (GVA) to the economy of the UK.
4.   The Heritage Crafts Association gained charitable status in 2010 and is registered with the Charity Commission as charity number 1159208. HRH The Prince of Wales is the President of the Heritage Crafts Association.
 
 

 
 


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