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Community Clothing: Revitalizing British Textile Manufacturing
Community Clothing is a British clothing brand founded in 2016 by Scottish fashion designer Patrick Grant, based in Blackburn, Lancashire. Addressing the severe decline in UK textile manufacturing, which saw employment drop from 1.4 million in the 1970s to only 50,000 by the 2020s, the company operates as a social enterprise. Its core mission is to provide consistent, year-round work for a co-operative of British factories by producing high-quality, ethically sourced clothing staples, thereby reducing the industry's significant downtime.
Grant's initiative was spurred by his experience with the near-closure of Cookson & Clegg, a Blackburn factory he acquired in 2015, leading him to launch Community Clothing with a successful Kickstarter campaign in early 2016. The brand now supports skilled employment in over 30 UK factories, actively combating the fashion industry's seasonality and reducing waste by utilizing "deadstock" materials. Demonstrating its commitment to ethical production and sustainability, Community Clothing notably supplied the opening ceremony uniforms for Team England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Grant has also highlighted the brand's innovative, low-overhead business model in a 2018 TED Talk, promoting a more sustainable approach to clothing consumption.