Kate Day Fund for emerging makers
Many of you knew and met Kate Day, who worked for many years and in several different roles around Manchester, and was a passionate advocate for craft, always working to celebrate and promote it. Kate passed away in 2022, and we miss her enormously. In recognition of her ambitions for the craft sector, the team…
Buy Less, Buy Better, Buy Handmade
An enterprising group of crafts organisations came together over Christmas ’22 to promote a message of buying well-crafted, brilliantly designed handmade goods over cheaper mass produced items. Folksy, Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Craft Festival, Find a Maker, the Crafts Council and the Heritage Crafts Association pooled ideas and resources to come up with the…
NW Craft Network, Highlights of 2021
2021-22 was another extremely challenging year as North West organisations responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, various lockdowns and phased opening up. Many fantastic craft events took place, and provided a context a lively exchange of research, inspiration and information. Events include…. British Textile Biennial 2021 at various venues and communities around Lancashire Degree shows online…
Join the North West Craft Network
After two years of turbulence, we’re looking forward to reconnecting in 2022. We’d love to welcome new members. The North West is a big place with a wealth of organisations and people working with craft and who appreciate its potential to transform people and places. We want to get more connected with organisations who work…
Not Exactly Plain Sailing…
In May 2021, the North West Craft Network took some time to explore the opportunities and the difficulties that the pandemic has presented to us, and examined what we thought our priorities should be for the next year or so. We’re just wrapping up our work on our priorities, but in a nutshell they will…
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