The first recipients of a new £10m fund from the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity, the Landmark Grants Programme – designed to accelerate skills development in the UK – have been announced today. Four recipients – Aston University Engineering Academy, The National Literacy Trust, St Giles Trust, and St. Paul’s Cathedral – will each receive grants of £500,000 towards their projects.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company is excited to announce that Anne-Christina (Annie) Warburton, CEO of Cockpit (London’s leading centre for contemporary craft) and former Creative Director of The Crafts Council, has been appointed Clerk and CEO, starting in January 2024.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company has announced the appointment of three new members of its Court of Assistants – Robert Hayes, Nicola Le Clair and Emma Himsworth KC – who have been elected for their commercial, financial, charity and legal experience, and for their contributions to the craft and trade of jewellery and silversmithing.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company is delighted to announce that Charles Mackworth-Young has taken office as Prime Warden, in succession to Mark Bridges (Lord Bridges).
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The Queen’s Remembrancer, Senior Master Barbara Fontaine, has pronounced a positive verdict on the nearly 10,000 coins submitted by The Royal Mint at the Trial of the Pyx in February
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The Cross of Wales: A historic commission by the Goldsmiths’ Company on behalf on His Majesty The King, to lead the Coronation procession at Westminster Abbey on 6 May
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The Goldsmiths’ Company London Assay Office has started application of a new commemorative mark that celebrates the Coronation of King Charles III
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The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity has pledged over £400,000 to five key prisoner rehabilitation organisations to cover staff and core costs over the next three years.
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£197,380 has been awarded in donations and grants to support jewellers and those working in the allied trades.
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The Royal Mint’s coins have been submitted for quality testing in the annual Trial of the Pyx at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London – the UK’s oldest judicial process.
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Jewellers and silversmiths from across the UK are being invited to apply to Goldsmiths’ Fair 2023, taking place between 26 September – 8 October.
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His Majesty King Charles III has been helping to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Goldsmiths’ Centre today (23 November), by visiting trainees and apprentices at its workshops and exhibition space near Hatton Garden, London’s famous jewellery quarter.
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On Wednesday 19th October 2022, we were very excited to welcome nine aspiring craftspeople to Goldsmiths’ Hall to mark the start of their Goldsmiths’ Company Apprenticeship at a Binding Ceremony. Along with being a momentous occasion for these young people, it is also an important moment for the Goldsmiths’ Company, who for the first time in its 700-year history has expanded its apprenticeship scheme beyond London and the South-East to the Midlands.
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Following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we reflect on the relationship between Her Royal Highness and the Goldsmiths' Company.
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