The half yearly update to our impact figures is about the best part of doing this job. No matter how hard running Community Clothing might be (and sometimes it’s really hard), seeing the positive impact grow just feels really great.

Our measures are simple: number of jobs we support, number of factories and communities we work with, and most importantly, the number of hours of skilled work we create. I remember my enormous excitement when we hit 1,000 hours, and 10,000. Today we can announce we’ve got to 469,280! BOOM! It’s a massive number. And most importantly this is skilled well paid work created in some of the UK’s most socially and economically deprived communities, places that really need the jobs.

When you buy from us you create work. Its as simple as that. If every one of you (and you are part of a community of over 100,000 like minded customers) were to get one new person to start shopping at CC then in theory we’d instantly create another 469,000 hours of work. Wouldn’t that be something to shout about. So please, tell your friends, buy socks and pants for your loved ones (and make sure they know where they came from), and let’s stop people buying from the tax dodging, people exploiting, bad guys and start buying stuff that does good. Every £1 spent on CC’s t shirts, jeans, chinos' socks or pants puts 95p straight back into the UK economy. You have the power to make a big difference, so please keep spreading the word.

All Back to Normal

I’m very happy to report that our warehouse move went incredibly smoothly with, almost 70,000 garments moved and booked in over the weekend. So regular (but slightly improved) service has resumed.