The British Cræft Prize
9 July 2026
Deadline: August 31, 2026
The British Cræft Prize is a new national award of £60,000 searching for creative technological and aesthetic inventions.
This is no ordinary design or innovation competition. Nation of Artisans are seeking innovative responses to today’s biggest challenges, inviting inventors to combine the deep wisdom of heritage crafts of the past with cutting-edge technologies of the future.
The competition is designed to inspire a wave of creativity, innovation, and aesthetic magic.
Britain is a land of deep craft and creative heritage. It is also a pioneer of some of the world’s most important industrial and technological innovations.
Yet these two traditions have drifted apart. Britain’s craft world is rooted but increasingly fragile, often trapped trying to conserve a way of life whose material foundations have already vanished. Meanwhile, our techno-innovation industries are revolutionary but lacking in soul and meaning, often dissolving the communities and traditions that once enabled harmony and flourishing.
The British Cræft Prize exists not to preserve ashes, but to light a new fire. The prize aspires to incubate radical, practical creations — and a wider ecosystem — that proves heritage and innovation can be dynamic partners. By combining craft knowledge with emerging technology, the prize aims to address Britain’s identity and innovation crisis through a new mode of AI: artisanal intelligence.
The Prize
Nominees: 6 shortlisted finalists each receive a £5,000 production grant and a “British Cræft” medal.
Winner: The overall winner receives a £30,000 grant to spin-out their invention
More information and application details can be found here.