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How the Sheffield Assay Office team of fundraisers turned £50 into £2551 for the Master Cutler's Challenge.

On Thursday 3rd October, Sheffield Assay Office CEO and Assay Master, Ashley Carson, was delighted to present five prizes to graduating students from the Sheffield Hallam University MA Jewellery and Metalwork course, when examples of the excellent work of the MA students was showcased.

Applications for the Hallmarking Awareness and Learning Online (HALO) Award 2024 close on Sunday 6th October 2024.

We have recently been informed about some essential carriageway works being carried out in the Hatton Garden area as part of Camden’s ongoing improvement programme. Please read on for full details.

Orders are now being taken for the new paperback edition of the Bradbury’s Book of hallmarks, with special limited-edition hardback and paperback editions now all in stock.

Sheffield Assay Office is proud to support the Sheffield Cathedral Junior Organ Scholarships, designed to help raise a new generation of organists in Sheffield, with high level experience in a Cathedral Setting. Here, ​Cathedral Organist and Director of Keyboard Studies, James Mitchell sets out his report from 2023/24.

Sunday the 1st and Monday the 2nd of September saw jewellery colleagues across the industry attending The Jewellery Show at Olympia, London.

After a flurry of opportunities to win a Jewellery Industry Award during the summer there is still one more Award open for entries and that is the HALO Award for promoting Hallmarking Awareness and Learning Online.  Sponsored by the British Hallmarking Council (BHC) and National Association of Jewellers (NAJ) HALO is in its third year and has attracted some excellent entries so far.

Promotion of the Award was halted after its prestigious trade launch at the Tower of London in June as the BHC , a government body, are prevented from Press activity during a General Election.  The closing date for the HALO Award has now been extended until Sunday October 6th to give more businesses a chance to enter.