Heritage Crafts Association
The Heritage Crafts Association (HCA) is a registered United Kingdom charity set up to support and promote traditional crafts.
The charity was launched at the Victoria & Albert Museum in March 2010,[1] with a membership programme for supporters.[2]
HCA initiated a 30 minute adjournment debate on the state of traditional crafts in Westminster in June 2009[3]
Patrons
- Sir Mark Jones KBE – Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Alex Langlands – archaeologist and star of 'Victorian Farm' and 'Tales from the Green Valley'
- Roy Brigden – keeper of the Museum of English Rural Life
- Professor Ted Collins – Emeritus professor at the University of Reading and author of Crafts in the English Countryside: towards a future (The Countryside Agency, 2005)