GOTS is the worldwide leading voluntary textile processing standard for natural organic fibres with strict environmental, human rights and social requirements along the entire supply chain.

Thread Republic CIC is a Mend Assembly Global affiliate in Kirklees, West Yorkshire. It was founded in 2022 by 4 local freelance textile practitioners with a shared vision to view the local community as active citizens, not passive consumers, with whom they can learn, collaborate, explore and implement solutions to reduce and reuse local streams of textile waste whilst sharing skills, having fun and boosting creativity.

Brighton Fashion Collective is a community group comprising of passionate individuals and two leading local non-profit organisations: Brighton Peace & Environment Centre, a long-standing local environmental charity, and Sew Fabulous, a not for profit sewing studio and Community Interest Company. 

Our Isle of Sheppey Hub is led by Jade of Lila-Rose Upcycled Clothing, a brand which creates clothes and accessories from the discarded and unloved. Using reclaimed wool and discarded plastic, Jade’s work has evolved from a passion for mending, experimenting and combining textile techniques with upcycling to create limited edition clothes and accessories.

Introducing SFW Hub: South Birmingham led by The Old Print Works! The Old Print Works is a diverse and welcoming community in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, that believes in the transformative power of making and creativity. A vibrant community charity, The Old Print Works provides competitively priced spaces for creative local makers and creatives to share, collaborate, innovate and in the process preserve, transfer and develop new and practical skills.

A guide to harnessing the world of nature to create sustainable textile art. Textile artist Alice Fox shows how to work with found, foraged, gathered and grown materials to create fabulous textile pieces that are inspired by, and made from, nature.

GOTS, is the worldwide leading voluntary textile processing standard for natural organic fibres with strict environmental, human rights and social requirements along the entire supply chain.

Dazzlingly witty, Preloved is a tale about friendship, loss and being true to yourself no matter the expectations. Lovingly celebrating the enduring power and joy of charity shops.

We’re really excited to have Bath Spa University and the new National Centre for Fashion and Sustainability as our flagship Hub partners for this year’s SFW programme.

We used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn’t have many but those we had were important to us. We’d cherish them, repair them and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work for millions of skilled people locally.

We’re delighted to announce that, as of May 2024, Sustainable Fashion Week is one of the pioneering signatories to Textiles 2030. the UK’s most ambitious voluntary agreement designed to limit the impact clothes and home textiles have on climate change in line with the Paris Agreement and the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action.

If we want our world to be more beautiful, kind and fair, can we make our activism more beautiful, kind and fair? ‘Gentle Protest’ is a unique methodology of strategic, compassionate and visually intriguing activism using handicrafts as a tool.

Taking place between 13th - 19th May, Organic Textiles Week is an awareness campaign which has been brought together by the UK ORGANIC with Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), their partners and members, including certifying bodies, industry experts, manufacturers, and retailers.

Earth Day is an annual celebration of all things earth and we wanted to share some of the amazing events taking place across our networks which you can be involved in.

Many in Circularity focus on the product, whilst that is important it is not the optimal way to create 'sustainable circularity', what we call Real Circularity™. One can be Circular in product and still be un-sustainable at the same time if our thinking and application is still linear.

All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings of Tutankhamun's mummy actually meant…

The must-have health bible that explains exactly how to stay in radiant, optimal health all year round. Dr Jenny Goodman spoke at SFW 2022 - exploring toxicity in fast fashion.

A crystal-ball look into tomorrow's wardrobe: conscious, fair, slow, upcycled, biointelligent, digital ... the fashion industry is undergoing some radical reimagining.

We have seen a rapid rise of the fast-fashion giants such as Shein and Temu in the past few years. All that postage has been paying a toll on the global air cargo industry! Shein and Temu send roughly 600,000 packages from China just to the US every day (U.S Congress report 2023). This is leading to an increase in air-freight costs and making off-peak season almost completely disappear.

On Saturday 20th April, join Fashion Revolution on the streets for the first global Mend In Public Day. The idea is simple: get out into your local community and stitch in protest against disposable fashion.