A grant from Naturesave Trust has enabled MAKE Southwest to launch its Young Green Maker Initiative (Young GMI), a youth arm to their successful Green Maker Initiative that supports makers on their journey to becoming more sustainable in their creative practice.
The first activity under the Young GMI was a free course of workshops to engage young people with sustainable making and give them an insight into what it takes to launch a creative business. Focusing on sustainable fashion, the students were taught how to work with scrap fabric and existing features when making them into a new design.
The conclusion of the course was to produce a cohesive, saleable product range to be displayed and sold in the MAKE Southwest shop. All proceeds from the sales feeding directly back into the charitable aims of MAKE Southwest as a craft education charity.
MAKE Southwest is an acclaimed exhibition space for contemporary craft and design as well as a leading charity for craft education. You can learn more about their work here.
