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Our grants help you to access resources and skills, enabling you to create your best work and allowing your business to grow. We also offer funding for organisations in the jewellery, silversmithing and allied industries who wish to collaborate with us.

    Grants for Individuals

    Business Catalyst (Small) Grants

    £1,000 grants for UK based sole traders or small businesses

    Want to accelerate your business growth? Whether you sell direct to consumers or work within the trade, get funding to access equipment, marketing tools or specialist knowledge and get your business off the ground.

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    Access Grants

    £500 grants to cover the fees for our skills training programmes

    If you face financial difficulties and would benefit from one of our programmes, our Access Grants could help you to develop your technical or business skills.

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    Foundation Programme Support Grants

    £1,500 grant for a young person training at the Goldsmiths’ Centre

    We help young people aged 16+ experiencing financial hardship by contributing towards their expenses during their year on our free skills training programme.

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    Grants for Organisations

    The Goldsmiths’ Centre Grants

    Up to £40,000 grants for individuals and organisations

    We provide funding for individuals and organisations to support projects and programmes aligned with our mission to protect the skills and future of goldsmithing in the UK.

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    Who we have supported

    The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust's Ethical Making Programme

    Grants given: £15,000 in 2021; £15,000 in 2022

    Increasingly, early and mid-career jewellers and silversmiths are calling for a kinder and more conscientious approach to their craft, and thanks to our partnership with The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust, seeds of change planted in Scotland now have the potential to broadcast across the UK.

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    Female victims of trauma empowered through jewellery making

    Grants given: £11,600 in 2021; £11,600 in 2022

    Founded by The Edinburgh-based Silverhub Studios in 2020, the Flourish Jewellery Community Interest Company (CIC) is a socially engaged craft project empowering women who have a history of trauma through jewellery design and making.

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