Introducing our Hub in Newtown, hosted by Textile Junkies!

Textile Junkies is a non-profit community-based business focused on promoting circular textiles, created by Cheryl Griffiths of The Dressmaker’s Daughter as a result of her concern about the impact fast fashion is having on the environment.

Introducing our Hub in Hastings, MAKU! Dedicated to making useful, beautiful things out of discards from the leather industry. MAKU was established in 2021 by a small team of like-minded people who love working with natural materials and believe in ‘making use, not waste’.

Introducing our Hub partner in Chicago, USA, delivered by Macaila Britton! Macaila Britton is an Environmental Communicator and Storyteller.She is the founder of Sustainable Business Guide (SBG), an online directory connecting users with sustainable brands and businesses. On the consultancy side, SBG supports businesses with environmental auditing, impact reporting, and ESG communications, marketing, and public relations strategies.

The Scrap Creative Reuse Arts Project is a social enterprise based in Leeds, that is focused on helping the environment by reusing waste materials from businesses as resources for art and play. The Scrap Shop in Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, is open to everyone and filled to the brim with discarded materials, originally destined for landfill.

Introducing our Hub in Oxford, led by Cherwell Collective CIC.

Cherwell Collective supports local groups near Oxford with infrastructure to empower and educate the community to reduce their carbon footprint, reduce food waste, and increase wellbeing. They empower those in their community who, due to social, financial, or medical inequities and exclusions, believe that reducing our impact on the climate is beyond their reach.

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.