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UKFT’s Sustainability 101 series provides practical guidance to help UK fashion and textile businesses navigate sustainability standards, compliance, and climate action. The series combines concise guides with supporting webinars and resources, offering actionable insights for teams across operations and supply chains.
The Sustainability 101 series is designed for business leaders, sustainability managers and teams seeking clear, practical steps to improve environmental and social performance. Each issue focuses on specific areas, from supply chain due diligence to materials standards, with downloadable guides, templates and webinars to support implementation.
Volume Two
Webinars
- Nature, biodiversity and fashion: Practical introduction for UK businesses
- Tackling fibre fragmentation across the textile supply chain
- From risk to resilience: Applying TFND in the fashion and textile sector
- Why forests matter to fashion: Climate, compliance and competitive advantage
Volume One
Guide focus
- Overview of standards for wool and natural fibres, organic fibres and cotton
- Chemical management frameworks
- Responsible business frameworks and ecolabels
- Social and environmental audits
Webinars
- Taking responsibility through standardisation: Deep dive into Oeko-Tex certification
- Unlocking the business value of certification with Textile Exchange's tools
- From application to accreditation: The B Corp path
- Better Cotton in transition: Understanding the latest updates
- Source Forest-based products responsibly with the Forest Stewardship Council
- GOTS Demystified: The value of GOTS certification for organic textiles
Guide focus
- How to make and evidence green claims
- Communicating claims in labels and marketing
- Legal and voluntary green claims requirements
- Checklist for businesses at different stages of their sustainability journey
Webinars
- The Sustainable Fashion Communication Playbook masterclass: Shifting the narrative around green claims
- How to avoid Greenwashing in fashion, with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Fox Williams
Guide focus
- UK, EU and global due diligence and modern slavery laws
- Human rights and environmental due diligence frameworks and process
- Tools and considerations for implementation in operations and supply chains
Resources
- UKFT Code of Conduct template
- UKFT Guide to Making Modern Slavery Statements
Webinars
- Understanding Responsible Supply Chains in fashion and textiles, with the OECD
- Introduction to Human Rights Due Diligence with Intertek and the Social & Labor Convergence Programme (SLCP)
- Understanding Environmental Due Diligence and Tools for compliance with amorfi, Fox Williams and Worldly
Guide focus
- Overview of UK REACH, EU REACH, Prop 65 and global chemical regulations
- Standards and certifications for chemical compliance
- Testing guidelines and risk assessment
- Chemical glossary terms
Resources
- UKFT Risk Assessment Form template
- UKFT Supplier Declaration of Compliance with REACH template
- UKFT RSL*
*Disclaimer: UKFT recognises that increasing circularity and the use of recycled materials may result in the unintentional presence of legacy chemicals that were previously permitted but now are restricted. While this RSL reflects current regulatory requirements, users should be aware that recycled content can pose additional challenges. This document is guidance only and does not replace any legal obligations.
Webinars
- Complying with the UK and EU Reach Regulations with Valpak
- High-risk restricted chemical substances in the apparel and footwear sector, with Intertek
Guide focus
- Energy use and carbon emission challenges for the sector
- Measuring greenhouse gas emissions (Scopes 1, 2, 3)
- Science-based target setting and progress tracking
- UK, EU and global climate regulations and reporting requirements
- Frameworks and case study examples for action planning
Webinars
- Complying with the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme: A dive into ISO 50001
- Energy compensation schemes: Are you getting all you are entitled to?
- Climate Change Agreements: Key insights for the textile sector
- A guide to completing the PAT and SAT forms for the Climate Change Levy (CCL)
- An introduction to greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting with Envantage
- Developing your decarbonisation strategy: Pathways, levers and case studies
S101 Webinar Recordings
- EU Sustainability legislation: What impact could it have on your business?
Circular Fashion Innovation Network (CFIN) resources
- National Textile Recycling Infrastructure Report
- Innovations in Textile and Apparel Dyeing Report
- Circular Manufacturing Report
- Responsible UK Fashion and Textile Supply Chains Report
- Advancing automation and robotics for sustainable manufacturing report
- CFIN Interim Report 2024: One Year of Convening, Listening and Testing
- CFIN Report 2025: Accelerating the UK towards a Circular Fashion Ecosystem
- Reshoring for Real: The future of domestic UK apparel manufacturing report
Additional Assets
- Access industry reports from ACT UK project
- EPR variable fee white paper
- Sustainability glossary of terms
- Survey report 2023
- UKFT Sustainability Conference
- UKFT guide to understanding the options for the reuse and recycling of textiles
- Mapping non-fashion textile flows: Advancing a circular textile economy in the UK report
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