In June 2015 we held our first events for textiles teachers and since then run networking events and workshops nationally, bringing together teachers with a passion for textiles. We also started to manage the Textile Teachers Centre online community and built this amazing group, connecting teachers from all over the world.

Our original aim was to support textiles in schools and build a community which would help each other and we support with textiles specific CPD, networking groups and resources to both encourage and inspire teachers . Through textiles education, we want to build a better world together – empowering, educating and inspiring the next generation.

In the last 10 years we have

• Joining forces with the Food Teachers Centre, to run events in London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Dubai and Abu Dhabi,
• Hosted courses in schools to train over 1500 teachers
• Hosted 50+ online networking events with over 2000 attendees
• Developed 30+  different F2F workshops and CPD courses for both teachers, students and general public
• Since 2020 we have developed 40+ online courses
• We developed a Free Mentorship programme run by volunteers and which has mentored 100’s of teachers and technicians
• We have developed 100+ Free resources for teachers to download
• We set up our Youtube Channel which now holds 50+ videos for teachers to access
• Worked with various charities supporting in a variety of ways.
• With have work on curriculum advisory support with stakeholder groups and organisations
• We have engaged in and managed research projects considering textiles in education and published 2 reports used by curriculum influencers and stakeholders.

We will be celebrating with events, giveaways, competitions and a big In Person event in June this year, so watch this space for more news……….