British Hallmarking Council
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Apply for the Touchstone award
Guidance
The British Hallmarking Council’s Touchstone award for trading standards teams is open for submissions.
This guidance is to help you know how to recognise a hallmark and who to contact about your consumer rights.
How to comply with hallmarking law if your business supplies items described as precious metal (gold, silver, platinum or palladium).
Guidance for Trading Standards officers on how to enforce the hallmarking law.
Touchstone 2024 award winners announced
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Winners demonstrate an ongoing commitment to hallmarking activities and to developing new external partnerships.
The new members will be part of the British Hallmarking Council from January 2025 for a period of three years.
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What we do
We supervise the hallmarking activities of the 4 UK Assay Offices to ensure there is adequate provision of hallmarking within the UK.
BHC is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade.
Documents
Transparency and freedom of information releases
Contact BHC
Birmingham Assay Office
1 Moreton Street
Birmingham
B1 3AX
United Kingdom
Edinburgh Assay Office
Edinburgh Assay Office
24 Broughton Street
Edinburgh
EH1 3RH
United Kingdom
Telephone
0131 556 1144
Fax
0131 556 1177
The Goldsmiths' Assay Office London
The Assay Office
Goldsmiths' Hall
Gutter Lane
London
EC2V 8AQ
United Kingdom
Sheffield Assay Office
The Assay Office
Guardians' Hall
Beulah Road
Hillsborough
Sheffield
S6 2AN
United Kingdom
Telephone
0114 231 2121
Fax
0114 233 9079
Make an FOI request
- Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
- Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
- Make a new request by contacting us using the details below.
General enquiries
British Hallmarking Council Secretariat
c/o Shakespeare Martineau
60 Gracechurch Street
London
EC3V OHR
United Kingdom
Freedom of Information requests
British Hallmarking Council Secretariatc/o Shakespeare Martineau60 Gracechurch Street
London
EC3V OHR
United Kingdom
Corporate information
Read about the types of information we routinely publish in our Publication scheme.