SEW LONDON PROJECT CIC
Fashion designer /Artist/social entrepreneur
ART/ Textiles
skirts and scrunchies workshop 2022
What we do
The Sew London Project CIC is a social enterprise that aims to reduce textile waste by empowering communities through hands-on workshops. The organization teaches essential repair and alteration sewing skills, allowing individuals to extend the life of their garments and reduce their environmental impact. In addition to workshops, Sew London offers a variety of services, including clothing rentals, professional repair and alteration services, and the resale of preloved clothing. By providing these sustainable fashion solutions, the enterprise encourages a circular economy and promotes mindful consumption. Our core mission is to foster creativity, sustainability, and community engagement while reducing the fashion industry's carbon footprint through practical sewing skills and sustainable practices.
Why CREATIVE SUSTAINABLE RESPONSIBILITY?
About Us
It is important to take care of our environment and help improve the well-being of lives, these two things are very important to the Sew London Project CIC, we started in 2013 and evolved into a social enterprise in 2020.
We continue to to work within our local community of Barking and Dagenham, the council, Schools, and other organisations, on collaborative projects to help educate how to reduce textile waste creatively.
It is important to promote sustainable Fashion education to the younger generation through social responsibility programs in schools and Further education colleges, to help raise awareness of the negative impact of fast fashion on our environment, and to promote the reduction of landfill and carbon emissions.
The programs will teach how to reduce, reuse and upcycle workshops, sewing, Up-cycling projects and talks.
Our school workshops can be tailored to the school time table anything from 45 mins assembly, one day projects to several workshops over a term. We also run CPD Days for organisations and schools.
SEW LONDON PROJECT CIC WORKSHOPS
What we do: community workshops
Half-term upcycling fun T-Shirts to Bags
Sewing workshops at BD Adult college
- Sustainability education programmes
- Alterations and repairs
- Extending the life of garments responsibly
- Upcycling of Textile waste
- Reduce environmental footprint
- Health and well-being workshops
- Creativity for pleasure or profit
100 Pieces of Becontree workshops
Working with the elderly at Harmony House
King Charles Jubilee festival
Sewing workshops at SLP Popup store
Talking to customer at the SLP Popup
What we do
SEW LONDON REPURPOSE STORE
The high street has changed and the SEW LONDON PROJECT CIC wants to be part of the revolutionary vision to Re-think the high street and circular economy.
In September to November 2023 we opened our first Pop-up store at Ilford Spark Lab, and the community had a positive response to our presence and our vision to reduce waste and sell second hand clothes, or have their garments professionally repaired.
At the Sew London Project Re-Purpose Pop-ups and Shops,
Our focus is on resale of pre-loved fashion, clothes rentals, professional repairs and alterations services, but we also educate the next generation health and well-being, repairs and alteration skills to repair their own garments, entrepreneurial skills, sewing, arts and craft projects to Adults and Young people how to re-think fast fashion and its harmful effects on the environment.
The Mayor's of London's vision is by 2030, there will be zero waste, textiles being one of the worst pollutants.
The heart of what we do is working with local communities, deliver 'Catch them young' Up-cycling schools projects in conjunction with the local waste management team within the Borough of Barking and Dagenham, and other sustainable events in other London boroughs.
SEW LONDON PROJECT CIC WORKSHOPS
SLP Repurpose Pop up sales
SLP Repurpose Pop up store
Sew London Repurpose Pop up
Hosting a cultural group from Peru
What we do
Social enterprise: rentals
NEW COLLABORATION
PRE-LOVED RENTALS
VINTAGE /RETRO RENTALS
PROM DRESS RENTALS
WEDDING GOWN RENTALS
PRELOVED DESIGNER RENTALS
FANCY DRESS RENTALS
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW
SEW LONDON PROJECT online
What we do: Ebay for change
EBAY FOR CHANGE
- Sew London project is part of the eBay for change programme
- we use every opportunity either online or in person to sell our preloved clothing responsibly
- We started this year 2024
- We have made some sales and we have maintained our 100% feedback
- Reduce environmental footprint
Tudor art installation art collaboration
Tudor art installation art collaboration
Children's half-term sewing classes
We are a big believer in giving back to the community so when I was approached in 2022 to create Bereavement quilt blankets for Queens Hospital Romford, my local community raised money to buy fabric and I volunteered with some members from my sewing group to make blankets for the bereaved, this is an on-going project, which aim to keep supporting for as long as we can.
SLP sewing group with hospital staff at Queens Hospital 2024
Bereavement Quilts for hospitals made by Sew London Project
Queens hospital staff 2024
Sewing workshops
Bereavement quilts
Quilt making workshops
2022 -2024 I collaborated with Recycle for my Community, Repair week to Repair and Alter Garments brought in by the public to show them how to extend the life cycle of their garments.
The Repair Cafe are ongoing and I also run Corporate events to teach staff how they can be more sustainable through make do and mend events
The Sew London project runs Arts/Craft, textiles, creative upcycling, health & wellbeing and sewing workshops throughout the year within Barking & Dagenham and London.
Repair Week collaboration
Repair and Alterations Forest Gate
Sewing Repairs Cafe
SLP Repurpose store
Repair and Alteration collaboration with Recycle for your community Beckton
Clothes Swaps Repair Cafe
We run sewing workshops throughout the year with different themes some are collaborations with other groups that have commissioned us to run sustainable workshops
And others are funded and we deliver these sewing and repairs alteration projects in and around London.
Repair Week collaboration
Fabric printing workshop
Land sec corporate event
Refreshtival event
Recycle old T-shirts project
Volunteer Sewing scrubs during the pandemic 2020
BD Adult college funded workshops
Sewing workshop at Walthamstow 2020
Fabric donation sale
Upcycling old clothes into cushion covers
Featured in Guardian newspaper 2017
BD adult college funded workshop
Volunteer Sewing scrubs for the Queens and King George's Hospital NHS during the 2020 Covid -19 pandemic
art and Textiles
Working with schools and organisations
Working in Schools
100 pieces of Becontree schools and community project 2021
London Borough of Barking and Dagenhan Recognition Award 2019
art and Textiles
Working with schools and organisations
2022 Saw Queen Elizabeth's platinum Jubilee celebration and the Sew London project was commissioned by the council to run a series of workshops and Art competition for young people to create 6 flags to line the high street in Barking.
We also were asked to create 5 Giant crowns and 200 mini crown decorations for Barking Abbey
Giant woven banner community art
Pavement art summer community project 2022
Tie and Dye vegetable dyes community project 2022
Giant crowns for the Queens platinum Jubilee 2022
Head gear commissioned for Grow community art project
art and Textiles
Solo Art Exhibition 2019 Textiles
NO MEANS NO
A tree cannot stand alone in the midst of a storm
As the bird wanders as the swallow flies... the curse causeless will not come
The Grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence
Freedom
Working in Schools
Artist Facilitator at the Creative Barking Dagenham GROW programme
Summer of Festival ''Thank you to the NHS''
Up-cycle old T-shirts to Tote bags
Upcycled socks to snowmen workshop
Working in Schools paper weaving
health and wellbeing
The Sew London project featured in the Dagenham Post
BD Giving funded our idea for Lip reading face masks for the hard of hearing, educational institutions and deaf
Queens platinum Jubilee summer celebration Art competition 2022
The Sew London project summer of festivals letters K
Recognition Award from the leader Darren Rodwell for our contribution to the local community
One Borough flags on Barking high street
health and wellbeing
2022 Creative Barking Dagenham Christmas Social
Creative barking & Dagenham commissioned
Guy Fawkes
Glow lantern parade Giant Guys and change makers Barking and Dagenham
Christmas social 2022
Christmas social
Christmas social
SEW LONDON PROJECT work in the community
Filmimg for Black History Month
Prize giving for One Borough Flags competition
Filming of My MOTHERS TRUNKBOX, BCA Walthamstow Make-up department
Black history month hall of fame
Workshop in the BLC for children
DO YOU Want to collaborate WITH THE SEW LONDON PROJECT CIC?
Email us: sewlondonproject@gmail.com
Tel: 07449035216
Adress: 62 - 76 Abbey Road the Malthouse studio 4
IG11 7BT
Designed Lip-reading Facemasks during the pandemic for schools, hard of hearing and special needs organisations. 2020 funded by BD Giving
PARTNERS
Another satisfied customer from the repair cafe