The Heritage Crafts Association Endangered Crafts Fund

Small grants are available to UK voluntary and community organisations and individuals, especially craft practitioners for projects that support endangered crafts listed on the Red List of Endangered Crafts.

Who can apply: voluntary and community organisations and individuals in the UK that can demonstrate that they are working the skills and knowledge that are listed on the Red List of Endangered Crafts (see link below).

Key words: Endangered and Critically Endangered Crafts, Heritage Craft Skills, Equipment, Business Development, Staffing, Education, Continuous Professional Development, East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom.

Thanks to support from the Pilgrim Trust, the Radcliffe Trust, the William Grant Foundation, the Sussex Heritage Trust, and private donors – the Heritage Crafts Association is inviting craft practitioners and organisations in the UK to apply for small grants to fund projects that support endangered crafts (the craft must be listed as endangered or critically endangered on the current Red List of Endangered Crafts). A number of grants are ringfenced for East Sussex, West Sussex, and Brighton and Hove, but those outside of these areas are also eligible to apply.

Heritage Crafts published the fourth edition of its Red List of Endangered Crafts in May 2023, the first research of its kind to rank the UK’s traditional crafts by the likelihood that they will survive into the next generation. The report assessed 259 crafts to ascertain those which are at greatest risk of disappearing, of which four were classified as extinct, 84 as ‘endangered’ and a further 62 as ‘critically endangered’. As a result of this threat to the UK’s cultural heritage, Heritage Crafts set up its Endangered Crafts Fund in 2019 and 59 grants have since been awarded nationally. Examples of some previous awards are provided on the Heritage Crafts website.