The Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion (RCDF) is an experimental platform beyond institutional, disciplinary and geographical boundaries initiated in 2012. It aims to critique the denial and erasure of a diversity of fashioning systems due to eurocentricity, unequal global power relations based on the modern-colonial order and the Euro-American canon of normativity materialised in modern aesthetics. Transcending academe, the Collective aims to experiment with decentral and decolonial ways of knowledge-creation and sharing concerning fashion— through the relational, communal and coalitional and through the radical act of listening across multiple differences.

Much of the existing research and action on sustainable fashion comes from the industry: optimization of complex supply chains, innovation in material design and production processes to reduce environmental impacts of fashion, improving the working conditions of people who make our clothes. However, research on fashion consumption has been fragmented and received much less attention. This group aims to build a community of academic researchers and practitioners interested in fashion consumption.

The Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion was formed in 2018 by (in alphabetical order) Kate Fletcher, Lynda Grose, Timo Rissanen and Mathilda Tham. The formation of the Union was inspired by the Union of Concerned Scientists, formed in 1969 in the USA. Our manifesto embodies our intention for founding this Union. We are researchers focusing on fashion and sustainability, and our primary aim is to engage with other researchers as well as business.

CO is a global community committed to a common objective - great fashion products that value the people who made them - and the planet.

In the UK traditional crafts are not recognised as either arts nor heritage so fall outside the remit of all current support and promotion bodies. At Heritage Crafts we are doing what we can to address that situation and safeguard craft skills and knowledge for the future. Heritage Crafts is the advocacy body for traditional heritage crafts. Working in partnership with Government and key agencies, it provides a focus for craftspeople, groups, societies and guilds, as well as individuals who care about the loss of traditional crafts skills, and works towards a healthy and sustainable framework for the future. We are a UNESCO accredited NGO for Intangible Cultural Heritage and we advocate for UK ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention of the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which 180 of the 193 member states of UNESCO have already ratified.

CSF provokes, challenges, and questions the status quo in fashion; contributing to a system that recognises its ecological context and honours equity. We shape and contribute to Fashion Design for Sustainability as a field of study, industry, and education practices. We engage in transformation design, cross-referencing fashion’s ecological, social, economic, and cultural agendas.

We are an interdisciplinary academic community that aims to co-ordinate and encourage the diverse work currently taking place on the subject of utopianism in the disciplines of literature, philosophy, sociology, history, architecture, politics, ecology, anthropology, film, media and computer games We convene annually at the beginning of July in various European locations – Britain, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Cyprus, The Czech Republic, Italy. Our conferences are always large events with notable key-note speakers which provide an opportunity to meet some of the great names among utopian scholars, network and get to know academics worldwide with shared interest in the study of utopianism. Our goal is always to work and think together despite differences in a welcoming atmosphere of openness, respect, inclusivity and dialogue which we deem particularly desirable given the universal context of academic competitiveness.We aim to promote a special community of scholars bonded by friendship and mutual interest in promoting our subject.

The William Morris Society aims to perpetuate the memory of one of the greatest men of the Victorian, or any, age. The life, work and ideas of William Morris (1834-1896) are as important today as they were in his lifetime. The Society exists to make them as widely known as possible. The variety of Morris’s ideas and activities bring together those who are interested in him as a designer, craftsman, poet, and socialist, who admire his robust and generous personality, his creative energy and his courage. His ideas on how we live and how we might live, on creative work, leisure and machinery, on ecology and conservation, on politics and the place of arts in our lives remain as stimulating now as they were over a century ago. The Society, established in 1955, publishes a Journal, Newsletter and commentaries on all aspects of Morris’s work and runs a varied series of talks and visits throughout the year. It encourages the re-publication of Morris’s works and the continued manufacture of his textile and wallpaper designs.