EducationCommunities often have the knowledge they need. TeX brings people together from across the community to share their skills, knowledge and experience across generations. Through 'Makerspace's', Textile Workshops and Training we equip the next generation of talent with the skills, knowledge and passion for the sustainable fashion and textiles industries.
EmpowermentWe set out to empower people to take lead in their own communities, We have built a model that works although to address the climate emergency there is not time to scale it working on our own. We want to empower others to replicate our model in their communities, building momentum behind the TeX movement. TeX also empowers people in the communities we operate, positively impacting on their lives, and raising aspirations as they connect with the six pillars of TeX.
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EnviromentTo date TeX has diverted 24.2 tonnes of textiles from landfill. This has been achieved through using circular design to repurpose industry surplus, producing new products from waste and creating opportunities for our community to learn skills that help them reduce their impact on the environment and live more sustainable lifestyles.
EcopreneurshipWe set out to empower people to take Natural Entrepreneurs we are working embrace entrepreneurial skills, applying them to our work to help solve environmental problems. Through TeX we are building a sustainable business that helps to decouple growth from the consumption of finite resources. TeX aims to eliminate all textile waste by designing it out of the industry, everything should be used to its maximum efficiency. Using our expertise as entrepreneurs we are driving change across industries.
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EmploymentTeX aims to provide valuable employment opportunities for our local communities, working with groups that often struggle to find employment we aim to provide flexible employment opportunities that are accessible to all. Through business collaborations and the facilitation of community activities TeX creates valuable opportunities for employment.
enterpriseTeX supports businesses who produce surplus textiles to build their environmental and corporate responsibility. From helping them close the loop on their manufacturing to transition towards a circular economy and repurposing industry surplus textiles. TeX helps businesses profit from the transition to circular design while supporting other good causes creating stories of surplus being used for community benefit, raising companies profiles and improving CSR.
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TeX CommunitiesTeX Communities helps to create sustainable communities by recycling, reusing and re-purposing industry surplus textiles and end of use clothing. Working with industry waste and creating a circular economy model we bring benefit in six main areas to Cornish communities ; Education, Employment, Environment Empowerment, Ecopreneurship and Enterprise.
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Bags of hopeJust £10 can provide a bag filled with clothing for vulnerable children with nothing.
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Make a change£50 will contribute to the ongoing TeX Communities activities, helping us to continue leading change.
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run a workshop£125 could pay for a TeX Communities workshop, free for the local community to attend.
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fashion showsfor youth creating their own fashion for a catwalkRaising aspirations, learning skills and building confidence. Developed after local youth groups came to us frustrated that they could no longer learn textiles at school and wanting to find an opportunity to learn.
Tex portreathLaunching TeX innovation, based in PortreathMarking the next stage of growth, launching TeX Innovation is allowing us to expand on our capacity and capabilities so we can continue to develop innovative solutions for repurposing textile waste.
24.2 tonnes of textile surplus saved
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High Streetpresence secured through taking on our first TeX Bodmin shopTeX is changing the future of the high street so the can continue to thrive while providing greater benefit and opportunities to the community, starting with our two shops in Bodmin.
public Speakingat seed festival and other inspiering eventsFrom Seed Festival to Coventry City of Culture, TeX Communities has been hosted talks at events across the country, Sharing our knowledge and inspiring others to take lead in their area, replicating TeX Communities for their community.
124organisations supported and collaborated withTeX Communities has supported businesses repurposing their textile waste and has helped community initiatives through running TeX communities activities.
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cornish Festivalsfor coming together as a team for fun and learningWho doesn't enjoy a festival, through festivals we come together over a fun teambuilding weekend that allows us to test new products, reduce waste left at the festivals and to share our skills.
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TeX Communities
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TeX Innovation
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TeX Communities oversees all aspects of the TeX brand, aiming to creative positive change across the community around the six E's; Education, Environment, Employment, Empowerment, Ecopreneurship and Enterprise.
Working with textile surplus, TeX Communities aims to eliminate textile waste, using it as a tool to support communities to reach their full potential, to build momentum behind the transition to a circular economy and allow people and the planet to thrive. Currently TeX Communities can be found across Cornwall however we have big plans, we are working on our next phase of expansion which will see more TeX Communities hubs appearing across Cornwall and the South West, with an ambition to share the TeX Communities model globally so solutions can be provided across the world. |
TeX Innovation based in Portreath provides circular economy, resource efficiency, product design , development and alterations, and manufacturing services. Specialising in repurposing textile surplus for community benefit, TeX Innovation provides award winning solutions for businesses, helping support a transition towards a circular economy, closing the loop and increasing profits.
While finding creative solutions to repurpose industry surplus, textiles are also repurposed and reused in ways that bring further benefits to the community, TeX Innovation supports the brands whose waste we use to strengthen both corporate and environmental responsibility while creating promotional and marketing opportunities with waste being used to benefit local communities. |
TeX BodminSupport the local community to come together through Textile workshops, helping skills to be shared across generations and providing opportunities for the community to learn skills that support them to live more sustainable. TeX Bodmin will reopen on October 17th providing a hope for TeX Swish, a sustainable living shop, a haberdashery and much more.
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TeX SwishHugely popular with as many as 150 people attending each event. These clothes swaps will see the community come together to swap as much as half a tonne of clothing in just 3 hours. Swishing provides a way to update your wardrobe with less impact on the planet, its cheaper than shopping on the high street and more fun. We will be bringing a permanent swish to the high street at TeX Bodmin opening on October 17th.
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Little TeXDistributing perfectly good, 'waste clothing' to children in crisis. Little TeX provides essential clothing left diverted from landfill by TeX Communities but still completely usable to some of the most vulnerable children in our community, working closely with referral organisations, clothing parcels are put together and distributed to support those who have nothing.
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TeX youthTeX Youth works with under 25's supporting skills development. Since the removal of textiles from the core curriculum TeX has filled this gap, with our Design, Make, Model fashion shows, creating the next generation of talent for the industry. TeX youth also works with students, graduates and young people who have finished their journey in the education skill, helping them to further develop employability skills and secure employment within the fashion and textiles industry's.
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TeX portreathSimilar to TeX Bodmin but with its on personality and unique quirks, TeX Pentreath aims to support the local community to come together through Textile workshops, helping skills to be shared across generations and providing opportunities for the community to learn skills that support them to live more sustainable. A new initiative funded entirely by TeX Innovation, we will soon be announcing the first activities that will take part under TeX Portreath.
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KindaFashionOffering corporate team building activities and merchandising, KindaFashion offers a range of team building activities and personalised, corporate branded merchandising, from branded uniform to personalised tote bags and customised face coverings. Through KindaFashion, teams come together and have fun doing everything from making pants to upcycling old uniforms, building skills that help them work together more effectively.
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