The King's Foundation

at Highgrove

The King’s Foundation at Highgrove

At Highgrove, The King’s Foundation offers education courses, programmes and workshops focused on heritage and craft skills. Our programmes are modelled on the work that takes place at our charity headquarters and main education campus, Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.

We have specialist education workshops situated in the grounds of the Highgrove estate, some of which are housed in a beautiful restored 17th-century Cotswolds farmhouse.

Students live and work on site, and have the opportunity to take inspiration from Highgrove Gardens in their designs.

All tuition and living costs are covered by The King’s Foundation, giving students the freedom to become immersed in their studies and the landscape at Highgrove.

The majority of our courses are aimed at graduates with an existing specialism, but we also offer a range of shorter and day courses aimed at those with less experience.

If you have any general enquiries about studying at Highgrove, please email us at highgrove@kings-foundation.org

The King's Foundation at Highgrove is located near the entrance to the Highgrove estate

A range of courses, programmes and workshops take place with a focus on heritage and craft skills

The focus of the training programmes is to support industry through skills provision

Furniture Making

The Snowdon School of Furniture

We offer long-term programmes and short courses in sustainable furniture making.

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Embroidery

The CHANEL Métiers d’art Training Atelier 

We run a 24-week programme in partnership with CHANEL and Le 19M focusing on hand embroidery and beading techniques

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Millinery

The CHANEL Métiers d’art Training Atelier 

We deliver a 35-week programme in partnership with CHANEL and Le 19M focusing on traditional hat-making techniques.

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Building Arts and Crafts

The King's Foundation at Highgrove 

Students from The King’s Foundation’s building arts and crafts programmes spend time at Highgrove learning skills from stonemasonry to lime plastering.

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Short Courses and Workshops

The King's Foundation at Highgrove

We also offer a range of short courses and workshops for the public in all kinds of traditional crafts, including wood carving, fan making and natural dyeing.

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The sale of highgrove products, garden tours and events support the charitable work of the kings foundation.