Cabbages & Roses

In 2017, we launched our first social responsibility program for the company. The global fashion and textile industry is the second most polluting and damaging industry in the world, second only to oil.

At Cabbages & Roses there is a deep understanding that we must be mindful of the choices we make and the impact they have on our environment and the people we work with. Building on the ethical values that make Cabbages & Roses what it is today, we want to design, create and instil a company culture that not only produces beautiful clothing, but also respects both the people we work with and our planet.

We are in the early stages of creating a programme to ensure that the environment and human welfare sits at the core of our company values, from our supplier relationships, to our company culture and our broader business ethics. It is not enough to simply comply with the minimum requirements. We aim to build on this each year.

Our 3 core environmental focuses are:

To become an entirely disposable plastic free company by 2020.

To launch a series of tools that enable the business to be more transparent over the next 18 months. These include a carbon calculator for the business, a recycling calculator as well as implementing a transparent pricing tool on our website.

To source 20% more responsibly sourced fabrics each year than the year before.

Our 3 core human welfare focuses are:- 

We are a National Living Wage employer which we formalised in early 2018, although from the start we have always paid our staff and the people we work with a living wage.

We offer a paid volunteering day to each of our staff to support local causes which launched in 2018.

To only work with suppliers who have signed our supplier code of conduct by the end of 2018.