We have received a lot of moral support following the start of our campaign to set up the Sussex Trug & Woodland Craft Heritage Centre! Friends from all over the World have been e-mailing us as well as those in Great Britain! One kind gentleman in Northampton has even designed a leaflet to take round…
So many uses for a Trug……….. My grand daughter Emmie in the same Trug in which her brother Fin was photographed and my 12 year old grand daughter Sophie was photographed, also aged 2 weeks!
re. On Saturday and Sunday last weekend my son Chris, Caleb Pimm my senior apprentice and I ran a two day Trug Making appreciation course at the Weald & Downland Living Museum in Singleton near Chichester. We started running courses there about 12 years ago, one a year and now run two, which are normally…
Recently we were able to donate one of our No.6 Royal Sussex Trugs to the David Nott Foundation for auction towards funds for the Foundation’s work in bringing medical services to the people of Syria. I am so pleased to learn today that our donation raised a staggering £160 towards their work. Our Trug also…
BBC South East Today have been to our workshops today covering the story of our proposed new Sussex Trug & Woodland Craft Heritage Centre. Claudia interviewed us and Mark filmed us and we hope that it may be aired tonight – if not tomorrow. Join our campaign to set up the Centre and protect the…
The Heritage Crafts Association and the Radcliffe Trust issue a joint “Red List” showing the “health” of various traditional crafts and have classified the Sussex Trug Industry as being “endangered”. What this means is that it is at the last stage of its life cycle with the next stage being “extinction”. There are many reasons…
