Craftspeople - register now to attend the HCA forum

Please note - due to unprecedented levels of demand this event is now full!

The Heritage Crafts Association is holding a forum event for craftspeople, on the morning of Tuesday 23 March 2010, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The HCA’s aim is to support and promote heritage crafts as a fundamental part of our living heritage. Since its website went live earlier this year, it has attracted hundreds of supporters all keen to help ensure a sustainable future for traditional heritage crafts.

In order to consolidate this support the HCA wishes to bring together representatives of as many traditional craft forms as possible, to help prioritise its aims and ensure that its actions remain in line with the interests and needs of the UK’s traditional craftspeople.

The forum will start at 10.15am (for 10.30am), with introduction by HCA Chairman Robin Wood, followed by a keynote address by Professor Ewan Clayton. There will then be a facilitated discussion and summation, before the event draws to a close at 12.45pm.

The forum is absolutely free to attend. However, the HCA is a non-profit organisation without core funding, and refreshments and hire of venue are both costs it has to meet, so any contributions, however small, would be very gratefully received, to help towards the costs of refreshments and venue hire. To make a donation, please visit our donations page at www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/donate.html where you can donate by credit card or PayPal. Please make a note that you are a Heritage Crafts Forum attendee and you will be formally acknowledged in the event literature.

If you would like to attend, please email Daniel Carpenter at info@heritagecrafts.org.uk. Please note that places are limited and it is anticipated that the event will become fully booked very quickly. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis, with all subsequent expressions of interest being placed on a reserves list.

Further information and joining instruction will be sent prior to the event.

NB: In anticipation of the Heritage Crafts Forum, a short questionnaire has been put online to identify some of the pertinent issues – if you haven’t already done so, you can fill this in online at www.surveymonkey.com/s/6FNQF6L. The survey closes on 28 February 2010.