The Royal Mint has today submitted nearly 10,000 coins for testing at the UK’s oldest judicial ceremony, the Trial of the Pyx, held at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London.

His Majesty King Charles III has been helping to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Goldsmiths’ Centre today, by visiting trainees and apprentices at its workshops and exhibition space near Hatton Garden, London’s famous jewellery quarter.

Today, The Goldsmiths’ Company welcomed nine aspiring craftspeople, along with their friends and families, to Goldsmiths’ Hall to mark the start of their Goldsmiths’ Company Apprenticeship. Along with being a pivotal moment in these young people’s careers, today’s ceremony was of great significance to the Goldsmiths’ Company, which with this cohort of apprentices, marked the expansion of its Apprenticeship Scheme to areas outside of London and the South-East for the first time in 700-years.

Following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we reflect on the relationship between Her Royal Highness and the Goldsmiths' Company.

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee brooch was made by award-winning British fine jewellery designer, David Marshall, and his team at their workshop in London’s iconic jewellery quarter, Hatton Garden. The piece, which represents the four nations, was commissioned by the Goldsmiths’ Company as a gift to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.

On 3 December 2020, Rachael Taylor of The Jewellery Cut interviewed guest panellists Professor Sarita Malik, Rickardo Antonio and Roxanne Simone, to discuss Black representation in the UK jewellery industry and the findings of the UK's first national Survey of Black Jewellers.

The UK's first national Survey of Black Jewellers has been carried out by Private 2 Public Ltd on behalf of Kassandra Lauren Gordon, a jeweller and activist, supported by the Goldsmiths’ Company and the Goldsmiths’ Centre. It follows Kassandra’s open letter to the jewellery industry in June 2020 about the lack of diversity and inclusion for black people in the industry.