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• Valuers' Conference Preview
• Retail Congress Preview
• NAJ Awards Preview
• JET Graduation Awards Report
• RJ Festival Report
• Inhorgenta Report
• CMJ Spring Review
• Spring Fair Report
• GC&DC Review
• Better Business

How long after receiving some sort of recognition for your hard work (let’s say as an award, for the sake of argument), is it OK to feel pretty pleased with yourself? Chuffed-bordering-on-smug? I only ask because it’s been roughly one month, two weeks and five days since The Jeweller was declared Magazine of the Year at the Trade Association Forum Awards 2025, and the team and I are still exuding a self-satisfied glow of superiority. It’ll pass. But in the meantime, it’s lovely to have a first-hand insight into how businesses and individuals must feel when they win a coveted jewellery industry award.

Which is a totally intentional segue into this note for your diary: the NAJ Awards 2025, sponsored by Curteis, are on Thursday, 23rd October, at the ICC in Birmingham. And importantly, entries for the 15 categories open in May, so turn to page 38 for all the relevant details and start thinking about your submission now. Imagine that warm, fuzzy feeling. And ponder on this: if you snooze, you lose.

Prize winners at the Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council Awards know all about that moment of jubilation as their name is called out. The prestigious annual competition is a wonderful evening of celebration, acknowledging the diverse talent that exists across the breadth of our industry. On page 22, we highlight just a few of this year’s winners. The same splendid venue – Goldsmiths’ Hall – is also the backdrop for the NAJ Graduation Awards – cue more applause, back-slapping and collective pride as the achievements of JET students are celebrated (p46).

We enjoyed yet more cheer and excitement as the finalists of the upcoming UK Jewellery Awards 2025 were announced during the two-day Retail Jeweller Festival in March. Turn to page 28 for my report on the buoyant and well-attended show. It’s been a busy few weeks, trade fair-wise – the NAJ team has also attended Jewellery & Watch at Spring Fair, Inhorgenta Munich and, most recently, the CMJ’s Spring Trade Event. Catch my reviews of all these on pages 16, 10 and 32.

With just over a month to go, anticipation is now building for two other key annual NAJ events: The Jet Business Network’s Retail Congress on 3rd June, and the 2025 Valuers’ Conference on 7th to 8th June. Both promise to be perfect opportunities for learning, knowledge sharing, networking and a little light letting down of hair. For all you need to know about both events, turn to pages 8 and 14. My message here is along the lines of my NAJ Awards one: avoid FOMO – register now.

There’s been a great deal to write about in this issue of The Jeweller, but we will always make space to showcase NAJ members – new and established. (I love this aspect of my job.) On page 20, read about Holts Gems in Hatton Garden; there’s an early look at Walsh at George Farrer in Tunbridge Wells (p48) and we introduce a new member, PeaceGold, in County Durham, (and the man behind it, Greg Valerio) on page 36.

Enjoy summer, everyone. I’m just off to polish my (sorry, our) trophy. Ahem, did I mention we won this a…? Oh, OK.