Goldsmiths' Fair takes the Hall for two weeks, 22 to 27 September and 29 September to 4 October 2026, a run-of-show ticket covering both.
The Goldsmiths’ Company is one of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of the City of London and has been testing precious metal for more than seven centuries. A statute of Edward I in 1300 required gold and silver to meet a defined standard, the Company took its first royal charter in 1327, and the word hallmark comes from the practice of bringing work to this hall to be struck. Goldsmiths’ Fair has been held in the building since 1983.
That is why the fair is not simply a craft fair with a good address. The makers are chosen by selection rather than by application fee, and the silver and jewellery on the stands is sold in the same rooms that assay it, by the body that sets the standard it is marked to. Forty years of it has made the fortnight the point at which private collectors and museums see the independent British trade in one place.
The 2026 fair runs across two weeks at Goldsmiths’ Hall on Foster Lane, 22 to 27 September and 29 September to 4 October, with the Monday between them closed. Each week carries a different set of makers, so it is two fairs sharing one address, and a run-of-show ticket at £30 covers both. There are 138 exhibitors this year, three of them showing for the first time and ten on the Company’s bursary for early-career makers.