Oro Verde gold competition coming to Birmingham School of Jewellery

Students at Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery will have a golden opportunity to take part in an exciting competition next week. The collaborative competition is being run jointly by the University and Oro Verde as a way of increasing knowledge of and interest in Fair Trade gold.

BCU School of Jewellery

Ami Choco region

The competition winners will have their designs promoted through Oro Verde and there is a chance that the pieces may be produced by artisanal crafts people from the Oro Verde community in Columbia.

Included in the competition briefing, which takes part next week, will be a visit by representatives from the Choco Bioregion who are in the UK for London Jewellery Week. As part of their trip they will visit Birmingham for a tour of the jewellery quarter and the School of Jewellery as well as meeting the students who are taking part.

And if that wasn’t exciting enough, there will be some well known names on the judging panel too!

Keep an eye out here for information on how the competition is running throughout next week.

That’s all for now….