Heritage Crafts
The Heritage Crafts Association (HCA) is a registered United Kingdom charity set up to support and promote traditional crafts.
The charity was launched at the Victoria & Albert Museum in March 2010,[1] with a membership programme for supporters.[2]
HCA initiated a 30-minute adjournment debate on the state of traditional crafts in Westminster in June 2009.[3]
In May 2017, in association with The Radcliffe Trust, the Association published 'The Radcliffe Red List of Endangered Crafts'.[4] This publication was also covered on Woman's Hour.[5]
Trustees and patrons
The President of the Heritage Crafts Association is HRH Prince of Wales and it is run by a board of trustees, including professional scribe Patricia Lovett (chair), Richard Hobbs (vice-chair) and Robin Wood (professional wood turner and co-founder of Spoonfest with Barn the Spoon).[6]
Other patrons include:
- Lord Cormack – Conservative Peer
- Sir Christopher Frayling – Rector at Royal College of Art (1996-2009)
- Emma Bridgewater – ceramics manufacturer
- Kaffe Fassett – textile designer
- Mark Henderson – Chairman of Gieves and Hawkes, No. 1 Savile Row
- Alex Langlands – archaeologist and star of 'Victorian Farm' and 'Tales from the Green Valley'
- Professor May Cassar - Professor of Sustainable Heritage at University College London
References
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/mar/22/heritage-crafts-at-risk
- ^ http://www.craftscotland.org/Default.aspx.LocID-cftnewkcp.RefLocID-cft04e001001.Lang-EN.htm
- ^ https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-06-25c.1036.0
- ^ "The Radcliffe Red List of Endangered Crafts". Heritage Crafts Association / Radcliffe Trust.
- ^ "Endangered Crafts". Woman's Hour. 4 May 2017. BBC Radio 4.
- ^ "Who we are". The Heritage Crafts Association. Retrieved 7 March 2018.