Timberland and TRAID Partner to Reduce Waste and Change Lives

Timberland has joined forces with fashion recycling and environmental charity TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development) to kick-start an exhilarating new eco initiative.

Bring your unwanted clothes and shoes of any brand into Timberland stores in London (good quality donations please) and we’ll reduce landfill in the UK and raise money to fight poverty at the same time. To show our thanks, the lovely folk at Timberland will give you 20% off any purchase at Timberland stores. 

The best bit is that it doesn’t end there.  All the unwanted jackets and shoes will then make their way to TRAID for resale and the money raised from clothes that are resold in TRAID charity shops will support a project to fight poverty sustainably with PAN UK (Pesticide Action Network UK).

TRAID & PAN UK Project – PAN UK is an organization that has pledged to support a group of cotton farmers in Benin, West Africa, by helping them to grow organic cotton and selling their produce to factories in East Asia, thereby helping them improve their own lives. We at Timberland have decided to join forces with both TRAID and PAN UK to support this project.

The promotion currently runs in the following stores:

Regent Street

Bluewater

Brent Cross

Kings Road

Westfield

Bishopsgate Arcade

Reading

Contact the TRAID Press Office for more information on 020 8733 2585 or visit www.timberland.com

TRAID help teachers go 'Behind the Seams'

Eco fashion charity TRAID has launched a beautifully designed Education Pack - ‘Behind the Seams’ - to inspire secondary school teachers to choose the ethics of the fashion industry as a subject for classroom work.

Since 2005, TRAID’s education team has worked directly with 25,690 children and young people to boost clothes recycling and stimulate debate about how clothes production affects the environment and people’s lives.

See full press release here (PDF)

Packs costs £45 (excluding p&p) If you would like to order a pack please contact Lyla Patel by email here or phone 020 8733 2591