SEW LONDON PROJECT CIC
Fashion designer /Artist/social entrepreneur
ART/ Textiles
skirts and scrunchies workshop 2022
What we do
Sew London project CIC is a sustainable responsibility organisation and our focus is to help the environment by diverting Textile waste from going into landfill and reducing carbon emissions by using the donated textiles sent to us, to run recycling sewing, Art’s & craft workshops for Adults and young people.
Sew London project CIC run year long Sewing, Up-cycling, Arts & Craft workshops with schools and local community called ''Catch them young programs which are user friendly, and aim to educate people and young people how to repurpose and recycle their textile waste.
We also run health and wellbeing workshops, and train people from our local community of Barking and Dagenham to use skills gained to find opportunities within the Fashion/ Textile industry and Entrepreneurship.
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
Half-term upcycling fun T-Shirts to Bags
100 Pieces of Becontree workshops
Sewing workshops at BD Adult college
Working with the elderly at Harmony House
What we do
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.
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 to support young people at risk of no education (NEET). To provide entrepreneurial skills to adults and young people, running Health and well being workshops and creating a skills exchange space for inter-generational projects.
We volunteered our skills, during the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 to sew scrubs, face-masks and scrub bags for 2 local hospitals Queens Romford and King George hospital.
Helping women to gain financial freedom by learning new skills through our entrepreneurial programs
'Catch them young' Up-cycling schools projects in conjunction with the local waste management team within the Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
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.
2022 -2033 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 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 workshops
Bereavement quilts
Repair and Alteration collaboration with Recycle for your community Beckton
Quilt making workshops
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