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Jewellery Making and the Environment Survey

28 Mar 2023

Career Catalyst Grant Winner 2022 Elsa Tierney at her bench

Anyone who’s dared to look into the environmental impacts of jewellery making, and relevant environmental laws and regulations knows that it’s a tricky landscape to tread.

NAJ member, Lea Bellion of Lieb Silver, has been researching this topic for over a year and has been liaising with various organisations, including the Environment Agency (England) (EA), on what good environmental practice looks like.

The EA would like to better understand our industry, craft, and processes in order to consider how they can best support us as a community. That means everyone from the hobbyists making just one piece per year, to the big jewellery businesses making thousands!

With that in mind, an anonymous survey has been put together by Lea, and this has been reviewed by various organisations, including the EA. We’d encourage you to spend 10 minutes to help with this initiative. 

Complete Survey

The results will be shared with the EA, NAJ, Guild of Jewellery Designers, and any other interested trade body associated with metal smithing or jewellery making. This is in order to help point us in the right direction to find, provide, and help create, where necessary relevant information and resources on good environmental practice. In a nutshell, it’s to support people like you.

We will be publishing the results in a future version of the NAJ newsletter, The Loupe. In the meantime, Lea is running some knowledge-sharing sessions taking place on:

  • Monday, 22nd May from 19:00 - 20:00
  • Wednesday, 24th May from 20:00 - 21:00
  • Saturday, 3rd June from 11:00 - 12:00

You can sign up for one of those here https://forms.office.com/r/TW8pMFjJw4, and Lea will be in touch.

Thanks in advance for participating in this important initiative.

Source: Lieb Silver