The Heritage Crafts Association aims to support and promote heritage crafts as a fundamental part of our living heritage - through surveying, advocating, celebrating, safeguarding and supporting traditional craftspeople. To help us achieve this we wish to become a registered charity. Becoming a charity will open up a range of new funding opportunities and other benefits.
To register as a charity, we need to show that we have at least £5,000. We have already raised £3,000 from work done for CCSkills by committee members, and the the Chair and Vice Chair have each donated £500, leaving just £1,000 still to find. If each of our website supporters and Facebook friends donated £2 we could easily raise this amount. If they donated £5, £10 or more, then we can do even more to support and protect heritage crafts in the UK.
The money will be used to fund various projects. For example, we are hoping to run an internet marketing course for craftspeople with places subsidised to around £30 per person to help showcase and celebrate traditional crafts. We have also been offered free space at various high profile events around the country during 2010, which will be staffed by volunteers, but we need stand fittings and promotional material to show the quality of traditional craftsmanship in the UK. We are also continuing our advocacy work to raise the profile of heritage crafts, with meetings with the Heritage Lottery Fund and Shadow Arts Minister Ed Vaisey in early November.
If you would like to help us achieve these aims we would be most grateful for a donation, however small. To donate, visit www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/donate.html. You can donate using your PayPal account, or if you don't have a PayPal account, using your debit or credit card.
Many thanks for your continuing support!
www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/donate.html
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