How can we bring Sustainable Fashion to every UK high street?

One sustainable clothing, textiles and fashion venture at a time. Help build a more circular economy in your community.

Discover ideas and business models for fostering a circular clothing and textiles economy in your community.

Receive support and mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs, so you can avoid reinventing the wheel.

Ideas & Business models:

Building blocks of more local, circular economies of clothing, and how to make them a reality in your community. Explore articles, free masterclasses and start-up support offered by our collaborators.

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

Arundhati Roy

Collaborators

We envision thriving sustainable fashion ventures on every UK high street. To realise this, starting and sustaining these businesses must become more accessible, and this is where our collaborators step in. Through mentoring and sharing their resources, they can support you to succeed with your sustainable fashion, clothing, or textile venture. How? A UPS study revealed that “70 percent of small business owners who receive mentoring survive for five years or more, which is double the rate of those who do not receive mentoring”.

  • Tze Ching Yeung

    from Refashion My Town and Sustainable Fashion Streets on how to set up a Sustainable Fashion Hub

  • Johannes Moeller

    from HIVE Community Business School on how to raise start-up funding and build partnerships

  • Amelia Twine

    from Sustainable Fashion Week on how to set up a Sustainable Fashion Hub and local events

  • Sue Buffin

    from New-U on how to set up a clothing swap shop

  • Becky Barnes

    on how to become a Sustainable Fashion Stylist

  • Chloe Haywood

    from Chloe Haywood London, on how to set up a Upcycled Fashion Brand

  • Sue Palmer

    from Edventure Frome (A Green & Healthy Frome) on how to set up local networks of action

  • Claire O'Sullivan and Kitty Wilson Brown

    from The Contemporary Hempery on hemp growing and creating a ‘field to fibre to fabric’ project

  • Nanna Sandom

    from Splendid Stiches on how to run a clothing alterations and repair service

  • Ghislaine Walker

    The Slow Fashion Stylist, on running workshops, events and group activities.

  • Meet our mentors

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