The Gane Trust is a small charitable trust, operating mainly in the West of England. It supports and celebrates art, design, craftsmanship and social welfare: the Trustees (see right) meet three times a year in Bristol.

We do this through many activities including exhibitions, events and sponsorship. A good example of our work is The Gane Trust Travel Scholarship Award.

A brief three year period in the mid thirties put Bristol on the Modernist map. In association with the Gane Trust,this exhibition in 2010 presented a little known partnership, and its extraordinary architectural and artistic implications.

This exhibition presented Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer, one of the pioneers of modern design, and Crofton Gane, Bristol furniture manufacturer, and their intriguing collaboration.

Jo Cashmore was the 2011 winner of the DIA/Gane Trust Award at the City of Bath College. She won it for her textile and fashion work in her final year, inspired by spiders' webs and broderie anglaise. Jo went on to Rochester College to the Fashion Atelier, and intends to work as a pattern cutter or garment technologist.

Ken Stradling has had a lifelong interest in design and crafts. He was Managing Director of the Bristol Guild for fifty years and is now its Chairman. He was deputy director of the Cider Press Centre in Dartington for nine years and a trustee of the Vivat Trust and the SS Great Britain. He became Chairman of the Gane Trust in 1988. He has recently set up a charitable trust to show his large collection of modern ceramics, glass, furniture and pictures.