Rural crafts are being featured on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today program this week. For those who are not up at 6am to listen you can listen online using BBC iplayer (just click the link then drag the slider to 9.25 when the feature starts).
We hear quite a lot of press on good stories in the traditional crafts at the moment, though most are in conservation or building crafts. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has put nearly £10 million into these crafts over the last five years through its bursary scheme.
HLF is a reactive rather than proactive funder and, in part, it has been a result of the smaller traditional crafts themselves not having an organised voice to campaign for support that has led to them being left out. We look forward seeing support and promotion for the basketmakers, potters, weavers and urban crafts such as Sheffield cutlery in the future.
Thanks to HCA supporter Julian for pointing this one out.
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