Individual craft practitioners and organisations promoting crafts can apply for small grants to support traditional craft skills at risk of disappearing.

The grants of up to £2,500 can be used for activities such as training, purchasing tools or materials, developing specialist equipment, or promoting endangered crafts.

Funded projects must demonstrate clear public benefit.

This initiative is part of a wider effort to protect practices listed on the Red List of Endangered Crafts and is made possible through the Endangered Crafts Fund, run by Heritage Crafts with support from the Radcliffe Trust, the Pilgrim Trust, and the Dulverton Trust.

Heritage Crafts published the fifth edition of its Red List of Endangered Crafts in May 2025 – the first research of its kind to rank the UK’s traditional crafts by the likelihood that they will survive into the next generation. The report assessed 285 crafts to ascertain those which are at greatest risk of disappearing.

Watch a recording of an online Q&A session for the Fund from January 2026 here.

The next closing date to apply is 5pm on Friday 16 October 2026.

For full details and to apply, visit the Endangered Craft Fund website here.