Heritage Crafts Awards
3 April 2025
Deadline: July 1, 2025
Nominations are now open with a closing date of 1 July 2025
Heritage Crafts set up the prestigious Heritage Crafts Awards in 2012.
The Heritage Crafts Awards celebrate and highlight the traditional living crafts made in the UK that contribute to our national heritage, such as silversmithing, leatherworking, dressmaking and tailoring, upholstery, weaving, embroidery and similar other crafts where there is a significant degree of hand skill at the point of manufacture. There are 14 awards available this year.
- Patron’s Award for Endangered Crafts
- Maker of the Year (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and UK)
- Precious Metalworker of the Year
- Fashion Textile Maker of the Year
- Emerging Leatherworker of the Year
- Emerging Weaver of the Year
- Emerging Upholsterer of the Year
- Emerging Embroiderer of the Year
- Emerging Metalworker of the Year
- Trainer of the Year
- Trainee of the Year
- Community Catalyst of the Year
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Environmental Sustainability Award
Click on the relevant awards below to find out more and to nominate yourself or someone else.
Please note that all awards nominations (apart from the Patron’s Award) now use the same application form, so you can nominate yourself or someone else for multiple awards in one go, rather than completing separate forms.
To help plan your nomination in advance of submitting (unfortunately you cannot save a draft form and return to it), you can download a list of all award questions here.