sector development – North West Craft Network

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 teamContinue reading “Kate Day Fund for emerging makers”

Not Exactly Plain Sailing…

Painting of a Joseph Sempill ( Irish, active 1867-1874), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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 willContinue reading “Not Exactly Plain Sailing…”