Lacemakers of Tomorrow, https://www.lacemakersoftomorrow.co.uk/. From their website, “It’s our mission to grow the lace teaching community by bringing teachers together as a collective — supporting each other through shared resources, honest conversation and a clearer sense of what the craft needs right now. Whether you’re an established teacher, a passionate maker thinking about teaching, or somewhere in between — there’s a place for you here, and we’d genuinely love you to be part of this.”

Caroline West is one of the co-founders and was awarded a grant for bobbin lace to establish a national mentorship program based in the UK that pairs aspiring lace teachers with experienced makers, to address the critical shortage of teachers in the endangered craft of bobbin lace. The group has begun to provide online discussion sessions through Lacemakers of Tomorrow. You can find them on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, individuals’ websites, and likely other locations. 

Heritage Crafts, https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/ is an organization in the UK, and the national charity for traditional heritage crafts. The organization provides a focus for craftspeople, groups, societies, and guilds, as well as individuals who care about the loss of traditional crafts skills, and work towards a healthy and sustainable framework for the future. They publish a Red List about every two years which identifies traditional heritage crafts, and looking towards the future, categorizes them according to their expected continuation. The organization has determined that the craft of lacemaking, and specifically bobbin lace, is in the category of Endangered in the UK. There are also knitting categories in the latest list. See the full 2025 Red List here. https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Red-List-2025-publication.pdf. They welcome donations to continue their work.

• Critically endangered: those at serious risk of no longer being practiced (page 5).
• Endangered: those which currently have sufficient craftspeople to transmit the craft skills to the next generation, but for which there are serious concerns about their ongoing viability (page 29).
• Currently viable: do not appear on the Red List as they are in a healthy state or have sufficient practitioners to transmit their skills to the next generation. The list of these crafts is included in the list (page 53).

The organization also provides grant funding to save endangered crafts. In July 2026 the list of recipients was published https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/our-stories/announcements/ecf14-recipients/. One grant was awarded for bobbin lace to Caroline West, from Tyne and Wear, to establish a national mentorship programme that pairs aspiring lace teachers with experienced makers, to address the critical shortage of teachers in the endangered craft of bobbin lace.