Our Hub partners in Leek are led by League of Artisans. League of Artisans is an NGO set up to empower and advocate for skilled craftspeople who work with their hands to make functional or decorative objects linked to their culture, community, region or traditions.

Introducing our sponsor in Bath, Norland! Norland, the world-famous specialist early childhood higher education provider, is delighted to host the SFW Hub: Bath. Throughout its 132-year-history, Norland has upheld its core values which place children at the heart of all it does.

Introducing our Canadian Hub, provided by Musey!

Musey is a social enterprise that empowers artisans by promoting and showcasing their traditional skills in a socially responsible way. Maheshi Wanasundara founded Musey to share the beautiful artisan crafts from Sri Lanka with people around the world while creating meaningful opportunities for Sri Lankan artists, women and family owned small businesses to participate in their economic growth.

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.