We believe that craft skills and knowledge enrich and uplift us as individuals, and, in doing so, will change our world for the better. Diversity of all kinds enriches creative practice, and we recognise the moral, economic, and social reasons to make diversity, inclusion and equality central to our work.
Our ambition is to achieve greater equality across our work with a focus on race, disability, and socio-economic background through testing new ways of working, building partnerships with new groups and individuals, and improved recruitment and training of our staff.
In June 2020 we held a meeting to discuss how we tackle racism and inequality in the craft sector. Since then, we have set a series of commitments and actions to work through, sharing our updates on this page.
Following a year of discussion, the Equity Advisory Council (EAC) was established in 2022. The EAC is a group of makers and craft professionals with a shared passion for craft. Drawn from racialised and underrepresented communities, they work as a critical friend to the Crafts Council on its anti-racism work.