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Make It British: One Woman's Mission To Successfully Save UK Fashion Manufacturing
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Make It British: One Woman's Mission To Successfully Save UK Fashion Manufacturing

For our first-ever podcast, Fashion Roundtable's Tamara Cincik speaks with Kate Hills - a woman on a self-proclaimed mission to save UK manufacturing. 

Following a 20-year fashion career with jobs at BurberryMarks & SpencerLevi’s and Debenhams, Kate created her website Make It British in 2011 to celebrate brands that manufacture their products in the UK.

"To me the offshoring of production seems very short-sighted. Britain was a successful industrial nation for centuries - the industrial revolution started here after all - so why would we want to lose all that skill and the ability to make things on our doorstep? Worried about the skills we were losing, I started to do some research on the brands and manufacturers that were left in the UK, and I found that despite what the majority of people thought, there were still lots of manufacturing being done in the UK", says Kate.

A passionate advocate for all things made British, in this podcast Kate and our founder and CEO Tamara Cincik talk about: 

  • Why Kate set up Make it British in the first place

  • Why we should all be passionate about British manufacturing

  • How to uncover the amazing businesses that are still making in the UK

  • Make It British's collaboration with Fashion Roundtable to push the Government for greater UK-made, reusable PPE

  • The social benefits of onshoring UK manufacturing and Brexit!

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