The Edward Barnsley Educational Trust

The Edward Barnsley Educational Trust provides furniture-making training in Edward Barnsley’s historic Arts and Crafts workshop.
  • In the early years of the Trust, the buildings were purchased from Tania Barnsley, Edward’s widow, securing the long-term future...

    In the early years of the Trust, the buildings were purchased from Tania Barnsley, Edward’s widow, securing the long-term future of the workshop. As well as supporting training in the workshop, the Trust maintains the adjoining cottage, where it displays furniture and houses an archive of over 4,000 of Edward’s drawings together with Edward’s extensive correspondence and photographs of many of his pieces.

     

    Funding for the Trust comes from the sale of furniture, and from donations and grants given by individuals, organisations and the Friends of the Edward Barnsley Educational Trust. Our supporting organisations are listed below. We are extremely grateful to them, and to all our many unacknowledged supporters.

     

    In 2019, we updated the charitable structure of the Edward Barnsley Educational Trust to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). The Charity Commission required us to set up a new charity. The new organisation continues to be called the Edward Barnsley Educational Trust, but has a new charity number (1182709). Our objectives and activities remain unchanged. Our assets were transferred to the new CIO on 1 January 2020. The details of the old and new charities can be seen on the Charity Commission website.

  • Current Trustees

    Tom Black D Phil (Oxon)

    Milan Cvetkovic MA (Oxon)

    William Clifford Maurice Jackson

    Paul Martin MA (RCA) FCSD

    Rodney Kington McMahon BA FCA (Chairman)

    Peter Taylor

     

    The Trusts Deeds

    As set out in its deeds, the Trust’s charitable objects are:

    1. To assist persons who are in need of financial assistance and who are preparing for, entering upon or engaged in the craft of handmade furniture making by providing them with tools, outfits or by paying fees, travelling or maintenance expenses or by such other means for their advancement in life to enable them to earn their living as the trustees think fit;
    2. In otherwise promoting the education and training of such persons;
    3. To preserve and maintain for the public benefit the Edward Barnsley archive.

  • Supporters

    The Edward Barnsley Educational Trust is extremely grateful for the generous support given by the following organisations:

    Association for Cultural Exchange
    The Antony Hornby Charitable Trust
    Annesley (CLW) Trust
    The Arts Society
    The Art Workers Guild
    The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust
    The Belmont Trust
    The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
    The Brewers’ Society
    The Broderers’ Charity Trust
    The Carpenters’ Company Charitable Trust
    The Charlotte Bonham-Carter Charitable Trust
    The Chase Trust
    Christie’s
    The Comino Foundation
    The Cinderford Charitable Trust
    The Crafts Council
    The Crafts Study Centre
    The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
    The Drapers’ Company
    The Dulverton Trust
    East Hampshire District Council
    The Edward Hornby Charitable Trust
    Ellis Campbell Charitable Foundation
    English Woodlands Timber
    The Ernest Cook Trust
    Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
    The Fine Art Society
    Fitton Trust
    The Foundation for Sports and the Arts
    The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers
    The Gane Charitable Trust
    Garfield Weston Foundation
    The Golsoncott Foundation
    The Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust
    The Grocers’ Charity
    The Haberdashers’ Company
    Hampshire & Isle of Wight Area Arts Society
    Hampshire Archives Trust
    Hampshire County Council
    Hargreaves and Ball Trust
    The Harley Foundation
    The Headley Trust
    Hedley Foundation
    The Helen Hamlyn Trust
    The Idlewild Trust
    J S Trust
    The Jane Hodge Foundation
    The Kobler Trust
    The de Laszlo Foundation
    The Leche Trust
    The Leathersellers’ Company Charitable Fund
    The Leverhulme Trust
    The Lionel Wigram Memorial Trust
    The Lord Faringdon Charitable Trust
    The Lynn Foundation
    Magdelen College, Oxford
    The Manifold Charitable Trust
    Marks and Spencer
    The Mercers’ Company
    The Mikado Trust
    The Monument Trust
    Newby Trust
    Petersfield Area Arts Society
    The Pilgrim Trust
    Pyke Charity Trust
    The Radcliffe Trust
    The Rank Foundation
    Rowan Bentall Charitable Trust
    Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
    Schroder Charity Trust
    Southdown Trust
    Sotheby’s
    The Tudor Trust

  • Apprentices and Fee-Paying Pupils

    Colin Eden-Eadon Apprentice 1981-1986
    Giles Garnham – Apprentice 1981-1984
    Robert Lawrence Apprentice 1981-1984
    Darren Harvey Apprentice 1984-1988
    Christopher Butler Pupil, Craftsman 1985-1989
    Michael Shally Apprentice 1985-1989
    Frank Roper Pupil 1986-1987
    Hamish Low Pupil, Craftsman 1987-1989
    Adam Gamble Apprentice, Craftsman 1987-1994
    Stephen Rock Apprentice, Craftsman-Tutor 1988-1996, 2001-Present
    Phillip Brown Apprentice, Workshop Manager 1989-1992, 1996-2002
    Sean Casey Trainee-Craftsman 1989-1990
    Richard Ash Craftsman 1990-1992
    Timothy Boyle Craftsman 1990-1991
    Robert Surgey Trainee-Craftsman 1990-1992
    Yasunori Nagao Pupil 1990
    Frederik Lundquist Pupil 1992
    Colin Norgate Apprentice, Craftsman 1992-2005
    James Ryan Apprentice, Designer-Manager 1992-Present
    Bjorn Wenzel Pupil 1993
    Anya Himmelsbach Apprentice 1993-1994
    Stephen Lamont Pupil, Craftsman-Tutor 1994, 1996-2000
    Gunnar Good Pupil 1995-1996
    Duncan Hitchins Apprentice 1995-1998
    Simon Owen Apprentice, Craftsman 1996-2003, 2005-2008
    Theo Cook Apprentice, Craftsman 1997-2004
    Vincent Large Apprentice 1998-2001
    Hakan Erlandson Pupil 1999
    Simon Pretty Apprentice, Craftsman 2000-2005
    Graham Christmas Apprentice 2001-2004
    Ross Clarke Apprentice 2002-2005
    Alan Lord Pupil 2003
    Tony Buskas Pupil 2003
    Fredrik Gustavsson Pupil 2003
    Gary Tuddenham Apprentice, Craftsman 2003-2008
    James Oliver Apprentice 2004-2007
    Max Edgar Pupil 2004-2005
    Adam Finlay Pupil 2005
    Joe Orchard Apprentice, Senior Craftsman 2005-2021
    Samuli Maja Pupil 2005-2006
    Aidan McEvoy Pupil 2005-2006, 2007
    Ben Smith Apprentice 2006-2009
    Nathan Day Pupil 2006-2007
    Andrew Cunningham Apprentice, Trainee Craftsman 2007-2014
    Daniel Pateman Apprentice 2007-2010
    Robert Culverhouse Apprentice 2008-2009
    Joshua Jaeger Apprentice 2008-2010
    Nathanael Lloyd Apprentice 2008-2009
    Stephen Bailey Pupil 2009
    Christopher Wallis Apprentice, Craftsman 2009-2014
    Douglas Williams Apprentice 2009-2011
    Mark Tamcken Apprentice 2009-2010
    Christopher Adkins Apprentice 2010-2012
    William Church Apprentice 2010-2013
    Laura Tunstall Apprentice, Design Assistant 2011-2012
    Tomas Keogh Apprentice 2011-2013
    Andrew Marsh Apprentice 2012-2014
    Paulo De Vasconcelos Apprentice, Craftsman 2012-2016
    Gary Ferguson Pupil 2013-2014, 2015
    Daniel Humphreys Apprentice 2013-2014
    David Williams Apprentice 2013-2016
    Douglas Foster Apprentice 2014-2015
    Sam Brister Apprentice 2014-2016
    Edmund Barker Apprentice 2015-2016
    Nathan Peach Apprentice 2015-2018
    Ian Towers Apprentice 2016-2020
    Warren Bentley Apprentice 2016-2018
    Simon Bulley Apprentice 2017-2021
    Joshua Pengelly Apprentice 2018-2019
    Oscar Harris Apprentice 2019-Present
    Max Shaw Apprentice 2019-2020
    Chris Gunkel Apprentice 2021-Present
    Luke Rawlinson Apprentice 2022-Present

    Jacob Janoff Apprentice 2023-Present

  • Staff & Volunteers

    Oskar Dawson Craftsman 1947-1984
    Mark Nicholas Craftsman, Foreman 1974-2000
    George Taylor Craftsman 1937-1941, 1946-1986
    Karin Antonini Trust Secretary 1980-1997
    Penny Laughton Archivist
    David Butcher Teacher 1981-1982
    Richard Elderton Foreman, Teacher 1983-1989
    Jonny Kerr Treasurer
    Rosemary Ryder Archivist
    Lou Elderton Archivist
    Elizabeth Brown Fundraiser
    Pippa Hackett Trust Secretary, Archivist, Fundraiser 1997-2006
    Martin Luke Treasurer
    Robin Hasslacher Treasurer 1999-2023
    Gilly Anderson Trust Secretary, Fundraiser 2006-2013

    Paul Foulkes Commercial Manager 2023-Present 

  • Former Trustees

    Paul Barnes
    Jon Barnsley
    Peter Barnsley
    Nicholas Blakstad
    Michael Campbell
    Barbara Gardner
    Nigel Grimwood
    Tim Hammond

    Roderick Herdman
    Gerry Jenkins
    Ray Leigh
    Martin Luke
    David Medd
    Mary Medd
    Ian Newton
    Don Porter

    Roger Powell
    Hugh Routh
    Peyton Skipwith
    Humphrey Sladden
    Gonda von Stamford
    Clive Stewart-Lockhart
    Stephen Swaby
    Frank Whiteman

  • Test

    Edward Barnsley CBE (1900-1987) was an important furniture-maker. He established his workshop in rural Hampshire in 1923. Since 1980, training...
    Edward Barnsley CBE (1900-1987) was an important furniture-maker. He established his workshop in rural Hampshire in 1923. Since 1980, training in his workshop has been supported by the Edward Barnsley Educational Trust. The Trust was set up by a group of people who wanted the knowledge and skills built up in the Barnsley Workshop to be passed on to future generations of furniture makers. The Trust has enabled over seventy apprentices and pupils to become skilled furniture-makers. Today, helped by the hard work of the supporters and employees of the Trust over many years, the Barnsley Workshop continues to produce exceptional furniture and remains a unique, wonderful place where people want to come to learn the craft.