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Campaigning for #SustainableFashion in Wales. #SustFashWales #GreenCarpetWales #Resolution6Rs #GwenerGwyrdd

https://linktr.ee/Sustfashwales

SCTCymru coalition

Aka Helen O'Sullivan - PhDer in SustFashEdu https://bsky.app/profile/hosphdmuses.bsky.social
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SustFashWales @sustfashwales.bsky.social · Nov 14
Supporting fashion wearing citizens to address their own consumption & seek sustainable alternatives.

📝Online directory (👇)

📚Free educatonal resources

🪡YouTube how to videos

📢Political campaigning

💡Knowledge exchange

Celebrating the sustainable fashion community of Wales since 2013.

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The SustFashWales logo surrounded by sustainable fashion brands, businesses and organisations based in Wales.
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hosphdmuses.bsky.social
Updating the #SustFashWales Jeans lifecyle video inc' Welsh translations. Perfect as I'm listening to @gwennosaunders.bsky.social on @cerysmatthews.bsky.social 👌

Ready for a Slow Fashion event by Prosiect Llai & Menter Mon at @pontiobangor.bsky.social next Saturday!

@sustfashwales.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Cyhoeddiad Cyffrous!
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Exciting Announcement!

#BlackMountainsCollege are excited to present the Textiles Pop-Up #SwapShop - this Saturday!

See the poster below for details or scan the QR code on the 3rd image to find out more about this and other #SustainableFashion events here in Cymru!
March 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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hosphdmuses.bsky.social
"We want people to feel involved and be agents of change."

"It’s not just Chile, it’s not just Ghana. It’s a global problem. We are facing this waste and it is proof that we need to rethink the fashion system.”
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#ReCommerceAtacama
#FastFashion #AtacamaDesert

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website
Items taken from a mountain of discarded garments in the Atacama desert were sold for the price of shipping in a fightback against the ‘racist and colonialist’ dumping of unwanted clothing
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
sustfashwales.bsky.social
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Exciting Announcement!
Cyhoeddiad Cyffrous!

#ReimaginedFashion – Design Competition
#CystadleuaethFfasiwn - Wedi Ei Ail-Ddychmygu

#CancerResearchWales
Deadline: March 31 2025.

For this & other #SustainableFashion events in Wales see:
sustfashwales.org/event-spotli...

#FashionCompetition
March 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
sustfashwales.bsky.social
📢LIVE: Events Spotlight Page!📢

I've been busy behind the scenes adding events sections/listings to the website! Here is a little summary of each of the newly added events, but head over to the page using either scanning the QR code/link 👇 or using the Linktree in my bio!

#SustainableFashion

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March 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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hosphdmuses.bsky.social
Helo Blod have been fantastic in supporting me while "dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg" to translate not only my PhD educational resources, but also my SustFashWales resources, Instagram posts and soon my @sustfashwales.bsky.social website!

Diolch yn fawr #HeloBlod!

#DysguCymraeg
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
sustfashwales.bsky.social
#Resolution6Rs was set up by myself and @foecymrucydd.bsky.social back in 2019. The aim is to challenge people to start the new year with a different kind of resolution...

#6Rs can help reduce the environmental impact of fashion consumption & make your shopping more responsible in 2025 & beyond...
January 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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#tbt
When #Nessa & #TheDoctor, supported our #GreenCarpetWales challenge, which myself & @foecymrucydd.bsky.social launched at the #BAFTASCymru in 2019!

The challenge is a perfect example of #Resolution6Rs #Rethink: We asked all attendees to rethink their outfits & not buy new!

#SustainableFashion
January 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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📣 Project announcement #5!

Thanks to funding from @ukri.org we have collaborated with @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social to help create a ground-breaking syllabus. Details below 👇.
#circularfashion #SustainableFashion #FutureFibresNetworkPlus
@exeter.ac.uk @universityofleeds.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Sequins are an understudied form of plastic pollution.

I'm very excited to be leading the #ecotoxicity component of this project here at the University of Exeter.
January 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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🎆 Happy New Year from the team! 📣 Project announcement #4: Bio-based Sequins funded by @ukri.org: a partnership between @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social, @exeter.ac.uk & industry partner Sequinova.
#circularfashion
#SustainableFashion #FutureFibresNetworkPlus
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
January 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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✨️#HappyNewYear! ✨️
✨️#BlwyddynNewyddDda!✨️

If you're thinking of being more eco-fashion savvy this year, then the #Resolution6Rs campaign is perfect! See these handy guides for more info! 

#NewYear #Resolution #NewYearsResolution #NewYearResolution

#SustainableFashion
#SustFashWales
January 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
sustfashwales.bsky.social
@theguardian.com are looking for young people to hear more about how they have taken up – and sustained – the habit of #knitting, #sewing and making their own #clothes.

Read more here:

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Young people in UK: tell us why you love knitting, sewing, embroidery or making your own clothes
We want to hear from young people who’ve taken up the habit of making their own garments
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
sustfashwales.bsky.social
It may be raining outside, but it's lovely and sunny in the #SustFash chook office!

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@bhwt.bsky.social

#BHWT
#BritishHenWelfareTrust
#RescueHens
#ExBatteryHens #HenRetirementComplex
December 19, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Every single sequin you see here is #SecondHand!
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Having a #sustainable #PartySeason certainly doesn't need to be boring! 🤩
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I have a love-hate relationship with #sequins, so my rule is I will only ever buy sequin clothes and fabrics that are secondhand.
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Am I missing out?
Hell, no!! 🤩
A collage of 16 photographs of Helen wearing a range of sequined clothing. Sone are at special ecents while others are at festivals. A collage of 4 photographs of Helen wearing a range of sequined clothing. Sone are at special ecents while others are at festivals. A collage of 4 photographs of Helen wearing a range of sequined clothing. Sone are at special ecents while others are at festivals. A collage of 4 photographs of Helen wearing a range of sequined clothing. Sone are at special ecents while others are at festivals.
December 4, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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Guardian and Observer journalists have asked people not to share Guardian stories for 48 hours from midnight tonight (Tues), to respect their strike and the virtual picket line
December 3, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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hosphdmuses.bsky.social
Anyone else in the Swansea/south Wales area fancy coming along to this in January?
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#Small99 #PeoplePlanetPint #SustainabilityMeetup

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 6-8pm
Albert Hall, SA1 3EP

www.eventbrite.com/e/swansea-sm...
Swansea - Small99's People, Planet, Pint™: Sustainability Meetup
Pop down to your local People Planet Pint meetup to find more about what's going on locally with sustainability and how you can get involved
www.eventbrite.com
December 3, 2024 at 12:38 PM
sustfashwales.bsky.social
It was great to chat to Sabrina Lee at the start of her challenge earlier this year on BBC Radio Wales.

Da iawn Sabrina! 👏

Read more here:

Fashion: 'How my challenge to stop buying new clothes has gone' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#SustainableFashion #SecondhandFirst #SecondhandFashion
Fashion: 'How my challenge to stop buying new clothes has gone'
Sabrina Lee set herself an ambitious challenge to tackle fast fashion. Here's how she got on.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 7:09 AM
sustfashwales.bsky.social
Great to see some many of the #SustFashWalesCommunity on there!

And some potential newbies to the directory, too!

#MadeInWales
#SustFashWales
November 30, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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This is what 🎄 means to me...

Families coming together and no shopping!

I was joined by children & families from my local community in Hendy yesterday for a creative #GreenFriday workshop!

The old t-shirt customising activity was a true winner!

Didn't they do amazing? 🌟

@waterslee.bsky.social
November 30, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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I love my day job...

#GwenerGwrydd #GreenFriday #CitizenFriday #GwenerDinasydd

I'm saying NO to #BlackFriday
hosphdmuses.bsky.social Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · Nov 29
Absolutely thrilled to share this with you all, especially during #GwenerGwyrdd #GreenFriday #CitizenFriday!

One of the schools I work with at Global Action Plan, are the first in the UK to fully launch the #GoodLifeSchools programme!

Watch now on BBC iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 29, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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globalactionplan.bsky.social
Thanks to our Good Life Schools partners Carmarthenshire County Council for their support in organising this opportunity, and for the photography.

Find out more about Good Life Schools and tune in to watch this evening!

www.transform-our-world.org/good-life-sc...
Good Life Schools - Think critically. Live differently
Good Life Schools brings communities together to create ways of living and learning that are good for us, and good for the planet
www.transform-our-world.org
November 29, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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globalactionplan.bsky.social
The young changemakers were joined by Global Action Plan Good Life Schools Coordinator for South Wales, Helen O'Sullivan, our Director of Education and Youth Engagement Dr Morgan Phillips and Councillor Aled Vaughan Owen, Welsh Cabinet Minister for Climate Change, Decarbonisation and Sustainability.
Young changemakers at Ysgol Maes y Gwendraeth in Carmarthenshire take part in a session of Global Action Plan's Good Life Schools programme Photo credit: Carmarthenshire County Council
November 29, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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globalactionplan.bsky.social
📺 Watch our young Good Life Schools changemakers from Ysgol Maes y Gwendraeth in Carmarthenshire on BBC iPlayer today📺

This #BlackFriday we're proud to announce that our #GoodLifeSchools programme - challenging the relentless pressure on young people to consume - has officially launched in Wales.
Young people from Ysgol Maes y Gwendraeth in Carmarthenshire attend a Good Life Schools session with Global Action Plan Good Life Schools Coordinator Helen O'Sullivan and Councillor Aled Vaughan Owen, Welsh Cabinet Minister for Climate Change, Decarbonisation and Sustainability. Photo credit: Carmarthenshire County Council
November 29, 2024 at 4:12 PM
sustfashwales.bsky.social
The aim of #GwenerGwyrdd / #GreenFriday is to encourage people to think twice before you hit the sales and shop #BlackFriday. Just questioning whether you *need* or *want* something is the first step to consuming more responsibly.

#BuyNothingDay
A text box placed over the green SustFashWales logo with the following text: “Gwener Gwyrdd encourages people to *do something* other than shopping. This could be repairing old clothes, having a crafty social or making something from upcycled materials. #GwenerGwyrdd #GreenFriday"
November 28, 2024 at 2:03 PM