Raising Awareness: Fair Trade Advocacy
Ways to connect your heart – and business – with Fair Trade sustainability
“The most powerful people are the ones who never stop learning.”
Book time with Aware… The Social Design Project
Textile Workshop | Visible Mending
3 hours | $35 (6 people Max)
A course for those joining the movement against throw-away culture and fast fashion, learn how to pick up a needle and rediscover the forgotten techniques and the joy of mending.
Join us for a fun and creative experience where you'll learn the art of visible mending—a sustainable way to repair and revitalize your favorite clothing pieces.
Book Club While Mending Meet Ups
We are doing Circular Fashion by Peggy Blum. For sale online.
Its Free.
Bring something to mend. Our meet ups are also a form of normalizing circular fashion practices as well as being inspired and learning from each other.
At our meet up we will:
1. Each introduce ourselves and share why they are interested in the topic of circular fashion.
2. Key Concepts and Questions - It will be lead in a "think tank" kind of format (40 minutes).
Please note you can follow along online on our Blog or via our socials Facebook, Insta and YouTube.
Fair Trade mentoring and advice
30 Minutes | Free
Join Yvie for a free, casual heart-to-heart (and maybe even a coffee) on navigating the path to becoming part of the Fair Trade movement. Yvie can assist businesses with developing a Triple Bottom Line business approach. She is on the Executive Committee of the Fair Trade Association Australia and NZ and is happy to help you on taking the Fair Trade Social Enterprise Journey.
Guest Speaking
30 Minutes | Free
Book Yvie for corporate or private events. A passionate crusader for sustainability and Fair Trade practices, Yvie is available to guide businesses and communities toward more sustainable, ethical practices.
Pop-Up Market and Ethical Styling
60 Minutes | Free
Have a special occasion on the horizon for a small group? Why not try something truly exceptional… Yvie can bring Fair Trade to you and your friends with a customised pop-up market in your own private space. As you and your friends consider outfit choices, Yvie can tell you the exciting stories of the pieces you select and how you’re making a difference to the planet (socially and environmentally).
Other resources
Ready to learn more about Fair Trade fashion? Try these…
Fair Trade Association of Australian and New Zealand
Clean Clothes Campaign Aims to improve the conditions of garment factory workers worldwide
Convention on the Rights of the Child
EPEA (Environmental Protection and Encouragement Agency) works with clients worldwide to apply the Cradle to Cradle methodology to the design of new processes, products and services.
Ethical Clothing Australia Assists local textile, clothing and footwear businesses to ensure that Australian workers receive fair wages & decent conditions
Ethical Company Organisation Accreditation
Ethical Consumer Ethical Consumer's primary goal is making global businesses more sustainable to improve their supply chain. They are an independent, not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder co-operative with open membership, founded in 1989 and based in Manchester, UK.
Ethical Fashion Forum The Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) is a not for profit network focusing upon social and environmental sustainability in the fashion industry.
Ethical Fashion Forum: Partners-International Listing of international organisations who work with the Ethical Fashion Forum to further the goals of social and environmental sustainability in the fashion sector.
Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) An alliance of companies, NGOs and trade union organisations dedicated to promoting and improving the implementation of corporate codes of practice which cover supply chain working conditions.
European Fair Trade Association (EFTA)
Fair Labor Association This US non-profit organisation is committed to ending sweatshop labour and finding new, sustainable solutions to exploitative labour conditions.
Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand, & Fairtrade Labelling Australia & New Zealand The Regional FLO Labelling Initiative.
Global Exchange Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization
International Labour Organisation UN agency that brings together governments, employers and workers of its member states to promote decent work throughout the world.
Mistra Future Fashion (Sweden) The Mistra Future Fashion program is a research program on circular economy and serves for a future positive fashion industry. Its vision is to close the loop in fashion and clothing – enabling a systemic change in the Swedish fashion industry, leading to a sustainable development of the industry and society.
Social Alterations An education lab for Socially Responsible Fashion
Sustainable Apparel Coalition Addresses general sustainability issues in the apparel industry.
Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia
The Textile Exchange All kinds of resources and information about organic textiles. Overviews of the 2016 Organic Cotton Market Report and the 2016 Preferred Fibre and Materials Market Report available on request.
Textiles Environment Design (TED) TED has developed a set of practice-based sustainable design strategies that assist designers in creating textiles that have a reduced impact on the environment. Along with other research projects, they have designed The Ten, a set of sustainable design strategies for textile and fashion designers.
Textile Toolbox A resource for investigating strategies to implement more sustainable textile and fashion design
United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Verite Verité is an independent, non-profit research organization that partners with corporations, NGOs, governments, and international institutions. It aims to ensure that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal working conditions