The Heritage Crafts Association is a registered

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set up to support and promote traditional

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. Since October 2021 it has been operating under the name Heritage Crafts. The charity was launched at the Victoria & Albert Museum in March 2010, with a membership programme for supporters. Heritage Crafts initiated a 30-minute adjournment debate on the state of traditional crafts in Westminster in June 2009. In May 2017, in association with The Radcliffe Trust, the Association published the

HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts The HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts is an inventory of traditional crafts and trades practiced in the UK that are at risk of dying out in the succeeding generation. The original HCA Red List, which took two years to compile, was first published b ...

, which was repeated again in March 2019 and May 2021, when it was funded by The Pilgrim Trust. This publication was also covered on

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. In 2020, the charity's President,

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, launched The President's Award for Endangered Crafts, which was won in 2020 by Ernest Wright scissor makers and in 2021 by watchmaker Dr Rebecca Struthers.

Trustees and patrons

The President of the Heritage Crafts Association is

and it is run by a board of trustees, including Co-Chair

Jay Blades Jason Blades (born 21 February 1970) is a British Conservation and restoration of wooden furniture, furniture restorer and television presenter. He grew up in Hackney, London, Hackney, which in his childhood was a working class area of Inner L ...

MBE (furniture restorer and presenter of BBC1

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) and Robin Wood MBE (professional wood turner and co-founder of Spoonfest with

Barn the Spoon Barnaby Alexander Carder, known as Barn the Spoon (born 1981), is a British artisan spoon carver, teacher, author and co-founder of Spoonfest, the annual international festival of spoon carving in Edale in Derbyshire, UK. He is also founder of ...

). Ambassadors include: *

Will Kirk William Kirk (born 14 May 1985) is a British furniture restorer primarily known for his work on BBC's restoration programme ''The Repair Shop.'' He is an Ambassador of the Heritage Crafts Association. Education and early career Kirk studied G ...

- furniture restorer and television presenter *

Kaffe Fassett Frank Havrah "Kaffe" Fassett, MBE (born December 7, 1937) is an American-born, British-based artist who is best known for his colourful designs in the decorative arts—needlepoint, patchwork, knitting, painting and ceramics. While still a child, ...

– textile designer *

Alex Langlands Alex Langlands is a British archaeologist and historian, also known for his work as a presenter of educational documentary series on British television and a lecturer of medieval history at Swansea University. Education Langlands has degrees ...

– archaeologist and star of ''

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'' and ''

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'' *Rose Sinclair - lecturer in Design at

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

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Crafts organizations 2010 establishments in the United Kingdom Charities based in England

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