Claire Haines has joined the SFW team as our Programming Lead for City Wide Events. Her background in event management and charity makes her the perfect fit for this role. Claire loves fashion and the outdoors, but hates waste and is constantly learning about new ways to tackle sustainability issues.

One huge economic impact of Covid-19 has been the damage done to the fashion retail industry, as shops closed their doors and customers vanished into their houses. Consequently, major companies cancelled their orders from garment factories in Bangladesh, India, Cambodia and many other countries.

Holly has joined the SFW team as our Programming Lead; planning the marketplace at our Hub Event and putting together a programme of workshops. She has a background in law and for 9 years has run the vintage clothes store @vinrougevintage.

How do we link the destruction of ecosystems and the Black Lives Matter movement? In this opinioin piece we look at how they’re systemically linked through the practices of extraction and exploitation in modern capitalism.

Image from Environmental Justice Foundation.

Isabelle has come on board to oversee the delivery of all the SFW programmed content. She has a background in event management and is now keen to put this experience to good use by helping supporting SFW in creating a vibrant, creative and inspiring event in 2021.

Ceilidh is our Strategy Lead. She works with the SFW teams to help guide and shape the core strategy. Her input supports our clarity of what SFW is, why it’s needed and who it’s for.

Each week we’ll introduce you to a member of the SFW team - giving them a moment to talk about why sustainability in the fashion industry matters to them. This first week is the turn of our Founder, Amelia Twine.

SFW is managed by a small team of volunteers and we’re looking to add to the team. Are you highly motivated to support change in the fashion industry and in consumption patterns, whilst encouraging all parts of the community to take the journey with you? Do you have a couple of hours per week to help us plan and deliver our 2021 event? Have a read of the three voluntary roles we’re recruiting for below and get in touch if you would like more information.

The word ‘sustainable’ is bandied around with quite a bit of abandon these days. It can be found in the marketing communications for an environmental movement focused on climate justice and simultaneously for a large, multinational company in the sales of its mass-produced products.