Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Circular Fashion
• Ethical Manufacturing
• Community Engagement

Environmental Achievements

• Reduced factory waste collections by 50% through waste reduction and investment in a granulator.
• Avoided dispatch of 766,000 pieces of single-use plastic by replacing plastic packaging with cardboard alternatives.
• Reduced paper usage by 10,710 sheets through the trial of handheld devices in the warehouse.

Social Achievements

• Formed a partnership with Thrift+ to provide customers with an avenue to resell or recycle unwanted clothes.
• Held customer and staff sample sales to reduce waste and raise money for charity.
• Supported Little Harbour Hospice with a fundraising target of £10,000.
• Organized monthly beach clean-ups.

Governance Achievements

• Established a Sustainability Working Group with representatives from every department.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Reducing factory waste to landfill/incineration.
• Accurately measuring environmental outputs to set future targets.
• Tracing all products back to the origin of their raw materials.

Mitigation Strategies

• Investing in a granulator to compact waste.
• Implementing handheld devices in the warehouse to reduce paper usage.
• Working on a project to strip wool from skins to create other products.
• Investigating different uses for recycled rubber.
• Significant project underway to trace products back to raw material origin.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Review of supplier performance through GRS and GOTS certifications.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Awards & Recognition

• Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade (2018, 2020)
• Cornwall Business Awards (2017)
• Drapers Footwear Award (2019)
• Highly commended for the Great British Brands Sustainability Awards (2021)