Each year Shine attracts an outstanding line-up of industry experts. Mentors have included:

• Toyin Laketu, fashion business and digital consultant
• Shaun Levin, novelist, creative writing lecturer and editor
• Brightest Bulb, iDEC video training provider and award-winning broadcast professionals
• Charlotte Dew, craft curator, programme and author

Leading industry experts and our team will share their advice and experience. You will join a small group of like-minded peers and, with our support, introduce your new collection to potential consumers, buyers and the industry.

At each stage, you will be encouraged to put what you have learnt into practice. By doing this, you will build your confidence, receive invaluable feedback and develop your business.

The course has helped to launch high-profile careers, including those of recent participants Deborah Beck, Edward Xú and Genevieve Schwartz; as well as past alumni Ella Fearon-Low, Alice Fry, Sheng Zhang and Akansha Sethi.

Please apply if you are:

• in your first five years of business
• able to present a new collection at the time of application
• committed to undertake and complete the Shine training programme
• committed to growing a business as a designer maker, jeweller or silversmith
• resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

And if your collection fits the following criteria: 

• coherent and tells a good story through the design and materials
• well-made and finished
• appropriately priced and presented
• made to sell from the Goldsmiths’ Centre Shop Talent e-commerce site Our judging panel, made up of invited guest judges,  former Shine participants and the Goldsmiths' Centre team, will assess each anonymised application based on the above criteria.