Since 2005 Elvis & Kresse have been rescuing raw materials, transforming them into luxury lifestyle accessories and donating 50% of profits back to charities. In 2005 we had a chance encounter with the London Fire Brigade. When we learned that London's damaged decommissioned hoses were headed to landfill we mounted a rescue. We set up Elvis & Kresse to save it. For over a decade none of London’s fire-hose has gone to landfill and over 200 tons of material has been reclaimed. In 2017 the Burberry Foundation partnered with Elvis & Kresse to tackle the even greater global problem of leather waste. This Five-year partnership will see at least 120 tonnes of leather off-cuts from Burberry transformed into new luxury items, designed and sold by Elvis & Kresse.
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New Barns Farm
Box Lane
Painters Forstal, Kent ME13 0RU, GB
Co-Founder, Elvis & Kresse and Co-Farmer, New Barns Farm Regenerative Social Entrepreneur, Founding UK BCorp, Board Advisor
After our first year at the new workshop with our renewables up and running we were finally able to compare our new impact with the old... and wow. Just wow. If you want all the details, please read the full breakdown! Have a great weekend everybody. #renewableenergy #insulation #strawbalebuilding
Co-Founder, Elvis & Kresse and Co-Farmer, New Barns Farm Regenerative Social Entrepreneur, Founding UK BCorp, Board Advisor
Great question Sarah Kent? We think Luxury can solve this problem, but it requires a shift in focus. Enormous energy is devoted to 'designing products' but what about redesigning the businesses themselves? It is time to deploy the enormous creative talent locked up in these global companies on the real design challenge of our time: How do we build or transform businesses to operate REGENERATIVELY?
Co-Founder, Elvis & Kresse and Co-Farmer, New Barns Farm Regenerative Social Entrepreneur, Founding UK BCorp, Board Advisor
Elvis on a podcast? Thank you Holly Tucker MBE for being the first person to get him to join me in an interview - so lovely to chat about everything we are up to, and here's to working together 😉! Happy #bcorp month!
We just made our annual donation to The Fire Fighters Charity. We have been donating 50% of the profits from our rescued fire-hose collection for 18 years now. In this season of giving the best lesson these 18 years can teach is that the more you give, the more you have.
We were dismayed by the release of 'the million dollar bag' and decided to do something... so here it is, the Million Pound Bag... but this one isn't about having a million, it is about giving a million.... And we are 100% serious.