The Goldsmiths’ Company is committed to creating a respectful, inclusive, supportive community and workplace, and attracting and retaining a diverse membership and workforce that better represent our communities and national society.

The Goldsmiths’ Company is excited to announce that Anne-Christina (Annie) Warburton, CEO of Cockpit (London’s leading centre for contemporary craft) and former Creative Director of The Crafts Council, has been appointed Clerk and CEO, starting in January 2024.

The Goldsmiths’ Company has announced the appointment of three new members of its Court of Assistants – Robert Hayes, Nicola Le Clair and Emma Himsworth KC – who have been elected for their commercial, financial, charity and legal experience, and for their contributions to the craft and trade of jewellery and silversmithing.

The Goldsmiths’ Company is delighted to announce that Charles Mackworth-Young has taken office as Prime Warden, in succession to Mark Bridges (Lord Bridges).

The King’s Remembrancer, has today pronounced a positive verdict on the nearly 10,000 coins submitted by The Royal Mint at the Trial of the Pyx in February, which included the first official UK coins bearing His Majesty King Charles III’s effigy.

The Goldsmiths’ Company has led on the making of a historic commission of a new processional cross for the Church in Wales – the Cross of Wales. It was today announced by the Church in Wales that the Cross of Wales, designed and made by master silversmith Michael Lloyd, will lead the Coronation procession at Westminster Abbey on 6 May.

To celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, the Goldsmiths’ Company London Assay Office have begun applying a new commemorative mark to items made of gold, silver, platinum and palladium.

The Royal Mint has today submitted nearly 10,000 coins for testing at the UK’s oldest judicial ceremony, the Trial of the Pyx, held at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London.

His Majesty King Charles III has been helping to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Goldsmiths’ Centre today, by visiting trainees and apprentices at its workshops and exhibition space near Hatton Garden, London’s famous jewellery quarter.

Today, The Goldsmiths’ Company welcomed nine aspiring craftspeople, along with their friends and families, to Goldsmiths’ Hall to mark the start of their Goldsmiths’ Company Apprenticeship. Along with being a pivotal moment in these young people’s careers, today’s ceremony was of great significance to the Goldsmiths’ Company, which with this cohort of apprentices, marked the expansion of its Apprenticeship Scheme to areas outside of London and the South-East for the first time in 700-years.

Following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we reflect on the relationship between Her Royal Highness and the Goldsmiths' Company.

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee brooch was made by award-winning British fine jewellery designer, David Marshall, and his team at their workshop in London’s iconic jewellery quarter, Hatton Garden. The piece, which represents the four nations, was commissioned by the Goldsmiths’ Company as a gift to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.

On 3 December 2020, Rachael Taylor of The Jewellery Cut interviewed guest panellists Professor Sarita Malik, Rickardo Antonio and Roxanne Simone, to discuss Black representation in the UK jewellery industry and the findings of the UK's first national Survey of Black Jewellers.

The UK's first national Survey of Black Jewellers has been carried out by Private 2 Public Ltd on behalf of Kassandra Lauren Gordon, a jeweller and activist, supported by the Goldsmiths’ Company and the Goldsmiths’ Centre. It follows Kassandra’s open letter to the jewellery industry in June 2020 about the lack of diversity and inclusion for black people in the industry.

For many years, since our very beginning in some cases, we have performed roles that reach deep into our trade and beyond, such as promoting apprenticeships, hallmarking precious metals and assessing the nation’s coinage. Now, as we move inexorably towards the 700th anniversary of the granting of our first Royal Charter of 1327, we are working on a broad range of new projects that we hope will be completed or well under way by the time the anniversary year comes around in 2027.