EXCITING NEWS!
MEND ASSEMBLY HAS BEEN AWARDED FUNDS FROM NATURESAVE TRUST
Mend Assembly’s flagship space in Totnes has been delivering our two core services, weekly sewing Socials and a mending and alterations service since we opened our doors almost four years years ago.
Hosted by our in house team, our signature socials are open to everyone and are designed as informal skill sharing sessions not structured lessons.
People bring the projects they’re working on to mend, knit, crochet, hand sew, or up-cycle along with materials and garments to use, donate or swap.
It’s a space to learn, share, try new techniques and expand individual and collective ‘know-how’.
In this way the Mend Assembly studio opens as a space for social engagement centred around the principles of slow fashion making.
Our Social Membership program supports people of all ages, skills and demographics to access this regular activity,
Our mending and alterations service is positioned to support people to extend the life of their garments and to invest in repair rather than more clothes. The demand for this service is self evident and comes from a broad spectrum of individuals as well as businesses in our community.
The Naturesave Trust is funded by the activities of Naturesave Insurance, the UK’s leading ethical insurance provider for individuals, businesses, charities and community groups. With the arrival of the funding from Nature Save Trust we will be combining these two core offerings by providing a series of immersive Mindful Mending and Making Socials.
Social Members, and others who join, will be guided by our in house mending and alterations practitioner Tullulah Toone, who is also trained as a yoga and wellbeing practitioner. Participants will immerse themselves in the practice of mindful mending and making while exploring and sharing what the acts of repair and clothing care means for them. These sessions will also respond to the demand from our community for more access and ways to engage with Mend Assembly, facilitating access for a larger number of Social Members.
These workshops will also increase technical confidence, connection to community and empower our members and others to establish more sustainable clothing practices.
'Practising creativity in community is a beautiful gift you can give to yourself.
These sewing sessions aim to bring the community together to sit and create, just like our ancestors did.
When creating we do not think of the past or the future, we are there in the present.
All nervous systems co regulating in wonder while we explore different textures and visions.
Making the invisible visible. '
- Tullulah Toone Resident Practitioner Mend Assembly Totnes
