A fruitful sunny healthy day....

Planting Healthy Creative Seeds since 2009 ... 

Soon to celebrate our 10th anniversary in January 2019--

Seeds that grow beyond continents: 

Fabrics and textiles such as cotton, viscose, bamboo, come from the earth,

and help us every day plant more creative seeds ... those we planted in 2009 are growing further ... 

Here is the unknown story of locally planted seeds for creative growth...

Meeting Cherise: her inspirational story...

Cherise is planning her Fashion business while fully employed as HR officer: 

growing seeds planted while on a grassroot local Fashion Circular  Enterprise in 2009 at the Youth Centre, 10 Bruce Grove: the programme was about mapping out unused resources, which led to discover Textiles due to landfill, an empty space, and young women wishing to learn in a way which was not accessible within the established curriculum.

Walking by the Lea River Valley helps bring creative ideas together...

Cherise and and co-students helped rescue Textile company  Elite 15 year supply library, due to landfill when globalisation pushed companies into closure.

Opening creative hub Creative Studio 4 was another seed Cherise contributed to plant for others to grow too while on the course in May 2009: 

a step that help grow local creative talents, house the surplus textiles, which after 8 years were still in surplus and donated to local projects and institutions: Cafe Connect: Living Under One Sun (TottenhamHale), People's World Carnival Band (Tottenham), LCCA (London),  Big Creative Education (Walthamstow), or internationally LCDF (Hanoi)

Cherise and her friends contributed to inspire many more projects into growth and action in Tottenham, reviving the creative skills, like a movement of grass root fashion development based on a new holistic concept that the full process can be accessible in the least expected places:

The complete experience of the fashion design process include complex skills such as pattern cutting which were made available as part of a vision to empower anyone to create from concept to final product, process made visible from a front window, and delivered within local community centres such as the Lordship Hub, the Tottenham Hale Engine Room, and a programme called SEW (Sew for Education and Work) delivered from Children's centres to enable young mothers to break the bond with newly born safely.

Actually Cherise and her group did more than learning and steering into action: they also brought to birth the healing process involved within the creative process: their roots are in Tottenham, and their interaction has helped heal and bring hope within the community, nesting their creative work within a stigmatised social environment which currently is rated as the most vibrant and exciting regenerated area in London.

 Well done to 2009 Creative Crops...