TRAID. Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development.

Posts in the Up-cycling category

• Meet Reuse Maker: Helen Kirkum

  

  By Helen Kirkum.

  May 11, 2020

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Reuse
  • Up-cycling
  TRAID: Your reimagined trainers are extraordinary, like pieces of collage. What’s your background and what inspired you to make shoes […] Read More...

• Queen’s Park Community School Support Local Repair Cafe

  

  By Sarah.

  October 29, 2018

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Events
  • Repair
  • Reuse
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  • Up-cycling
  Year 9 students from Queen’s Park Community School in Brent were tasked with creatively repairing and altering damaged garments donated […] Read More...

• NME Lifehacks

  

  By Sarah.

  December 12, 2017

  • #secondhandfirst
  • Clothes Reuse
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Events
  • Film
  • Photography
  • Up-cycling
  It was an honour to be invited to be the sustainable fashion partner at this year’s NME Lifehacks during our […] Read More...

• TRAID x St Margaret Clitherow Primary School

  

  By Sarah Klymkiw.

  July 6, 2016

  • Education
  • Reuse
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  • Up-cycling
  Last month TRAID’s Education team visited St Margaret Clitherow Primary School in Brent with the support of Brent Council. The […] Read More...

• Metamorphosis Series, Lucy Connier, Year 13 Student

  

  By TRAID.

  January 14, 2016

  • Education
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  • Up-cycling
  In the Autumn term of 2015 TRAID Education visited Raines Foundation School students to launch the start of their ‘Metamorphosis’ […] Read More...

• Metamorphosis Series: Georgia Walsh, Year 13 Student

  

  By Georgia Walsh.

  January 5, 2016

  • Education
  • Up-cycling
  In the Autumn term of 2015 TRAID Education visited Raines Foundation School students to launch the start of their ‘Metamorphosis’ […] Read More...

• Raines Foundation Students Takeover Dalston

  

  By Sarah Klymkiw.

  December 21, 2015

  • Education
  • Ethical Fashion
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  • Up-cycling
  BTEC Fashion and Textiles students from Raines Foundation School were introduced to some of the ethical issues that the fashion […] Read More...

• #Secondhandfirst Week Guest Blog: Rosalind Jana

  

  By TRAID.

  November 25, 2015

  • #secondhandfirst
  • Clothes Reuse
  • Education
  • Ethical Fashion
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  • Up-cycling
  Rosalind Jana (blogger and TRAID fan) shares her outfit for #Secondhandfirst Week. Everything she is wearing is second hand (other […] Read More...

• Glenthorne School Project In TRAID Peckham

  

  By Sarah Klymkiw.

  July 28, 2015

  • Education
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  • Up-cycling
  TRAID Education took the students of Glenthorne School on a journey to discover the real story behind our clothes. From […] Read More...

• Brainchild Festival

  

  By Sarah Klymkiw.

  July 15, 2015

  • Education
  • Events
  • Up-cycling
  Last weekend we were invited along to Brainchild Festival in Bentley Country Park, East Sussex. The festival, now in it’s […] Read More...

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