New Jewellery Pop-up Event Pivots the Lives Of People Experiencing Homelessness

15 May 2023

On 18th May 2023, the award-winning social enterprise Pivot will be hosting its Made by Pivot: Jewellery Pop-Up event for the first time at the Goldsmiths’ Centre, close to Farringdon station in London.

From 4pm until 8pm, Pivot will be showcasing and selling responsible brass, recycled silver and zero-acetate jewellery handcrafted by people experiencing homelessness.

Pivot is partnering with the Goldsmiths’ Centre, an educational charity that helps jewellers and silversmiths to learn craft and business skills and build successful careers. Working as the first ever organisation to take jewellery making directly into hostels, Pivot gives individuals living in temporary accommodation purpose, meaning and flexible employment.

To launch this new partnership, which is funded by the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity, Pivot’s creative training programme has been delivered for the first time at the Goldsmiths’ Centre. Makers took part in Pivot’s tailored programme, working with the Goldsmiths’ Centre team, enabling participants to learn how to craft jewellery in the charity’s state-of-the-art workshops and showcase their work at selling pop-ups to optimum effect.

Julia Skilton, Grants and Engagement Manager at the Goldsmiths’ Centre, explains: “Pivot empowers people experiencing homelessness to design, make and sell jewellery. Our charitable partnership has seen Pivot makers spend time in our jewellery workshops and with career jewellers who call the Goldsmiths’ Centre their home. This would not have been possible without generous funds from the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity and we’re delighted that we have managed to help Pivot forge stronger links to our industry.”

Alice Moxley, Founder and CEO of Pivot explains: “We are the first ever organisation to take manufacture directly into hostels, and we are so delighted to be partnering with the Goldsmiths' Centre this year to deliver our latest programme. The partnership has allowed us, for the first time, to work directly in Hatton Garden with experts in the industry, really widening what we can offer to our participants. The team at the Centre have been incredibly generous with their time and expertise, and we couldn't be more grateful. What a treat to be able to showcase our work with the Goldsmiths’ Centre, and celebrate the end of this programme with a great cohort of makers.”

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Source: Goldsmiths’ Centre