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We are pleased to be able to announce the return of our popular designer-maker selling event, The Winter Market at The Forge along with our first ever Open Studios at our Isle of Dogs location.

Craft Central’s Week of Workshops for London Craft Week 4-10 October

Craft Central is looking for new Trustees to join our Board. Craft Central is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity.

We have teamed up with the Museum of London to offer selected Craft Central Network members the opportunity to sell their products within the museum gift shop 22nd October – 31st December 2021

Makers involved include (left to right): Duck Ceramics | Charlotte Reid | Chisato Tamabayashi | Corinne Hamak | Frank Horn | Ha Nguyen | Kreis Design | Pipet Design | Sato Hisao

We are pleased to announce that our programme of events for London Craft Week 2020 is now live for bookings. Each event will compile with social distancing guidelines ensuring a fun and safe environment to learn and make. Please contact marguerite.metz@craftcentral.org.uk if you have any questions.

A celebration of our crafters, makers and creative businesses, whose practice is at The Forge. Over the 2 days - 23rd and 24th of September - we will introduce you to 12 Crafters, Makers and Creatives, all of which have studios with us at The Forge. You will be able to explore what they do and find out about their products and services - all of which can be purchased directly from them.

Throughout lockdown, Craft Central’s building has remained open to our community of artists, makers and creatives. And now, as the restrictions are gradually lifted, and more of our studio and desk users return, we wanted to put together something colourful to thank all the frontline workers, healthcare professionals, key workers, volunteers and carers.

Podcasts are everywhere nowadays – even more at present! A podcast is like listening to a radio show, where it’s just you and the people on the podcast in the room. The great thing about them is that you can listen to them whenever you want and you don’t need to watch anything.

To support the efforts against Covid-19 and help the NHS, Craft Central has been given the opportunity to offer a private space to two local professionals who are using several 3D printers in order to produce protective face shields for doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals who lack personal protective equipment.

Craft Central has put together some useful information, links and promotions that aim to help makers and the self-employed through these testing times of shutdown and isolation. Like all other venues, we have to postpone all events and workshops for the time being. Our onsite office is also closed. Craft Central staff will be working romotely until further notice.

Once upon a time…St Mary’s RC Primary School in Chiswick was audited by the Mayor’s Office among the 50 most polluted schools in London. A recent survey by the Times put it on top of the list of the most polluted schools in the whole of Hounslow. In 2018 a group of parents set out to change all that and turn it into one of the greenest by building a green infrastructure in St Mary’s playground along the brick wall that separates the school to the A4 (with a flow of at least 80,000 vehicles a day).