Awards: Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST)

The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) awards scholarship and apprenticeship funding of up to £18,000 to talented and aspiring craftspeople working in a broad range of skills, from farriery and jewellery design, to silversmithing, dry stone walling, glassblowing cheese maturing, sculpture and more. Their next application round is open 10 January – 14 February 2022 and they are looking for more talented applicants.

QEST celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2020 and since 1990 has awarded over £5million to 650 individuals working in over 130 different crafts.They define craft broadly and welcome applications from all areas including rural skills, contemporary craft, conservation, luthiery and much more. A directory of all their alumni can be seen on their website, along with more details on how to apply  (They have two application rounds each year – in January and July).

QEST will be holding three ‘How To Apply’ sessions on zoom to give advice and tips on the application process:

Scholarship sessions:
Date:Jan 12, 2022 04:00 PM London

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqd–tqTsqGtOoC0WlMvfeNQcKAHcMir0O

Date: Jan 31, 2022 04:00 PM London

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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sfu6qqjkoGNJeXcILG0gl1f3OCv0dCSri

Apprenticeship session:
Date: Jan 20, 2022 04:00 PM London

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqduGurTMoEtV_9O0l4VJYzRNPdedZ5Xcx

With thanks to Qest for image and text.