The news file for makers: fair schedules and application deadlines, supplier and material discontinuations, price rises, studio and workshop openings, grant rounds and marketplace policy changes. Entries stay brief and dated, with the source linked. For anyone whose making calendar depends on hearing about a change early.
From kitchen table to shared bench to a unit of your own: studio costs in the UK are driven by region, light and access hours — and by one line of business rates relief worth knowing.
Britain's two main craft-funding routes — the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust and Heritage Crafts bursaries — pay for training rather than studios, and both reward a plan more than a portfolio.
Craft fair applications are won months before the event — with honest photographs, a coherent price range and a clear answer to the one question organisers actually ask: will this stall look good?
Siobhán McSweeney, Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller are back as series nine of The Great Pottery Throw Down fills Sunday evenings with kilns, tears and improbable teapots.
Heritage Crafts' Red List grades British craft skills by the number of practitioners left — and its categories have quietly changed how craft decline is discussed, funded and reversed.
The Crafts Council's January 2026 policy brief asks the country to treat its valued crafts, customs and celebrations as something worth protecting for future generations.