Circular Sourcing

We’re thrilled to announce Circular Sourcing is a recipient of the Country Road Group Climate Fund for 2024. Launched in 2022, the Country Road Group Climate Fund aims to support grassroots projects that mitigate climate change and build climate resilience. In its first three years, it will award a total of $1.5 million in grant funding. The funds will be used to create a designer toolkit known as the Circular Sourcing Surplus Guide, which will be open-source published. Funded in part by the Climate Fund grant, the guide will include an impact calculator created in collaboration with research partner RMIT University. The calculator will allow users to measure their waste savings generated through their usage of surplus compared with commissioning new materials. We’re so excited to see three wonderful projects funded including - Greening Australia, Mimal Women Rangers and RediRobots Read the full blog post here. Images by Country Road Group. Courtney Holm Lily Clatworthy Textile Recyclers Australia Mimal Land Management

We're so excited to offer a new range of surplus fabrics on Circular Sourcing - Premium Upholstery by Sustainable Living Fabrics   These artisanal upholstery fabrics are locally milled and made from premium fibres including Australian Wool and Eco-Polyester. Source the collection online at Circular Sourcing - https://lnkd.in/gjhEwcKq Thank you to Liz + Jac for their work in joining Circular Sourcing and keeping these materials in use. It's so exciting to see these high quality textiles find a new pathway. Reuse is good use! Liz Miles Jacquelyn Jessup Courtney Holm Lily Clatworthy

Wonderful article with our Founder Courtney Holm discussing how we're tackling surplus textile waste. Thank you to Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) We especially loved hearing from two of our launch sellers Jillian Boustred and MTK Australia about their experience with selling surplus materials. "It has essentially allowed us to turn what was waste into a form of cashflow" - Circular Sourcing Seller, Jillian Boustred Read the full article - https://lnkd.in/gtQgiWPW

This week we exhibited with The Design Gallery - a biannual boutique fabric, print & trend show. It was so nice to meet so many brands and designers who are interested in working with surplus fabrics. Thank you to the team at The Design Gallery for hosting this wonderful sourcing event. Images by Lily Clatworthy Courtney Holm

Support from this legend means the world! Shoutout to Clare Press who has been doing all the amazing things for sustainability since before it was cool. Also if you haven't got your copy of her latest book Wear Next - we highly recommend picking one up - it's a brilliant read. https://lnkd.in/gwfdBHjB

Thanks so much for the support CoLabs Australia! Love the community of wonderful people we're finding going down this path. Thanks for all your advice and support. We're looking forward to what's next!

We were delighted to take first place at the Pitch Perfect: Community Competition hosted by Standard Ledger at The Commons. It’s great to see audiences resonate with the Circular Sourcing model that connects sellers with high-quality deadstock fabric to buyers, reducing the amount of fabric ending up in landfill or taking up valuable storage space, and creating an additional income stream for designers and fabric mills.   We’re expanding our offering every day, and preparing for our next funding round in early 2024 so if you would like to connect as a seller, buyer or potential investor please reach out to Courtney Holm or visit https://lnkd.in/dyiB_Qqm

"...with Circular Sourcing we get what the fabric is worth, rather than just getting what we can." Kerry Pietrobon Harlow "It's very little work on our part. All we have to do is make sure we know how much fabric we’ve got. The rest is done from their end. We can adjust prices, adjust fabrics, and then we send it off." Check out this article by Sustainability Victoria and see what our sellers are saying about the Circular Sourcing. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gdUKp95D Courtney Holm Lily Clatworthy Meriel Chamberlin Dewi Cooke A.BCH (ABCH Pty Ltd)