Bravo Community Clothing – 380,000 Hours of Skilled Work Clocked Up

Fashion-Enter Ltd is proud to be one of the 48 partner factories that manufacture for Community Clothing. 

Back in 2015, Patrick Grant, resident judge on the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, received an email stating that Cookson & Clegg, a Blackburn clothing manufacturer established in 1860 was going to shut for good. Patrick had established relationships with various UK suppliers throughout his career working with tailoring brands on Savile Row. On hearing the news he stepped in to buy the factory, saving 60 jobs and the specialist industry skills that go with it.

Fast forward to 2024 and this ethos of using UK suppliers has snowballed into the creation of Community Clothing, a brand that provides everyday, good quality wardrobe staples from factories, currently 48, dotted around the UK. 

Patrick said in his recent mailout: “Business really does have the power to do lots of good. Not just good for shareholders, good for everyone; customers, employees, their communities, and the planet. This idea of doing good is central to how we work at Community Clothing. By making our affordable high quality clothes we’re sustaining and creating highly skilled meaningful long term jobs in communities right across the UK. Jobs are really important. It’s not just the money, it’s the sense of purpose and pride they give us, the hope they give us for our futures, the structure they give to individual lives, and the sense of identity they give to communities.  

“I remember feeling incredibly proud when we posted our first impact update, six months after we launched, showing we’d created 6,328 hours of work. Last year we passed the quarter of a million hours a number which felt seriously meaningful. And now, as we pass the halfway point in this year, I am delighted to say that with your continued support we’ve now created over 380,000 hours of fantastic, well paid, skilled work here in the UK. We could not be more pleased, or more proud.”  

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