Colin Pocklington, Nationwide Jewellers

Anthony Enriquez, Showcase

Joshua Zarb

Meeniyan apprentice jeweller Lily-Grace Toohill wins Gold Medal in Jewellery and Best of Nation at the 2025 WorldSkills National Championships. She designed and assembled an 18-carat yellow gold three-module pendant in only three days.

Looking ahead to the next three years, 70 per cent of respondents forecast a need for 20 hours or more per week of jewellery manufacture services.

The average respondent currently employs 0.4 apprentices.

Three to four weeks is considered a reasonable turnaround time for completing and delivering a newly designed and manufactured piece of jewellery to customers. Three years ago, 34 per cent of respondents were not able to meet this industry benchmark.

Ratings 7 to 10 in the graph show that 75 per cent of businesses find it very to extremely difficult to employ a new apprentice jeweller.

Ratings 7 to 10 in the graph show that 87 per cent of businesses find it very to extremely difficult to employ a new trade jeweller.