First deadline: 15th Nov 2024.

Many craftspeople are facing significant challenges in sustaining their practice, due to a combination of financial pressures and systemic marginalising factors. Heritage Crafts’ Maker Relief Fund is targeted at people facing financial hardship while striving to make their living as a professional craftsperson.

It is based on the principles that:

• the best way to safeguard the UK’s intangible craft heritage is to support the individuals within whom that knowledge and skill resides; and
• such individuals are the best arbiters of their own need, deserve to be treated with dignity, and rarely benefit from being subjected to undue bureaucratic demands or the judgement of strangers.

The fund will award 50 grants of £1,000 over a 12 month period to practising professional craftspeople who are based in the UK, are over the age of 18, and who consider themselves to be in one or more of the following categories:

• people on low incomes;
• working class people;
• Black and ethnically diverse people, including Gypsy, Roma and Travellers;
• people with disabilities, who identify as neuro-diverse, and/or have chronic physical or mental health issues;
• members of the LGBTQIA+ community; or
• people with caring responsibilities.

For more information visit Heritage Crafts