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This statistical invisibility has created a funding desert for heritage crafts. While contemporary and design-led crafts receive support through the Crafts Council—some £2.2 million per annum via Arts Council England—which enables sector development, showcasing at events such as “Collect” and vital research activities, heritage crafts receive no equivalent government support, except minor grants. The sector must therefore rely on the now 13 year-old Mapping Heritage Craft research, leaving policy decisions based on increasingly outdated evidence and heritage crafts’ vulnerability to extinction largely invisible, until very recently, to policymakers.