Craft and Textiles / sustainable fashion
Sustainable fashion with Sewing Links
North Bristol Community Project (NBCP) is a charity based near Bishopton who work to promote general health and wellbeing, encouraging people to learn a new skill and to get involved in their community.
They already hold workshops in arts and crafts, I.T and other vocational activities and are now developing a new enterprise venture: Sewing Links.
The project hopes to create a selection of clothing items and home accessories, focusing on quality over quantity, while providing more job opportunities to particularly under-represented groups in Bristol.
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Tackling the issue of sustainability when it comes to clothing, they will support Bristol manufactures and produce fewer clothes of higher quality to cut down on textile waste.
Sewing Links hopes to promote sustainable fashion and provide ethical job opportunities
According to a recent Greenpeace report, the average European consumer now buys 60 per cent more clothing items a year and keeps them for half as long as 15 years ago. The impacts of fast fashion are evident to see in the current climate emergency and Sewing Links want to give the consumer the option to shop more sustainably.
Fast fashion is not only concerning from an environmental perspective but also an ethical stand point in which many workers overseas are exploited. Sewing Links will ensure sure their workers treated and paid fairly and ensuring the opportunities for workers are accessible for all.
Through this project, NBCP hope to build up a strong and loyal customer base in which will have a lasting local and social impact which will undoubtedly bring the community together. Their long-term vision also aspires to be able to offer apprenticeships for local young people who want to learn a skill and want some industry experience.
If it becomes a successful venture they also hope to go onto sell their creations in museum shops and department stores, sharing the wonders of sustainable fashion.
Photos courtesy of North Bristol Community Project.
If you are looking to get involved with the Sewing Links Project email is nbcp84@gmail.com or visit www.northbristolcommunityproject.org.uk
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