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Meet Member No: 200112206
Kate Holbrook from Turtle Doves
Turtle Doves had a fantastic time
celebrating all things recycling at the National Recycling Awards, held at the
London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, last week.
We were up for two awards for Retail
Recycler of the Year and Best Recycled Product categories and while we didn’t
win, we’re delighted to have received recognition as finalists. With so many
big businesses there, it was a real accolade just to be a part of it.
Even better, the event was on my birthday
so it was an extra special occasion.
We were certainly up against some tough
competition but we had a brilliant time at the ceremony and congratulate all
the winners on their success.
We’d particularly like to say a huge well
done to the winners in both our categories, who were Carbon8 Aggregates for
Best Recycled Product and Elan for Retail Recycler of the Year.
It was certainly fun for us to network
with other companies, who have a similar ethical vision to Turtle Doves and
truly realise just how important recycling is for the future of our planet.
Our nomination for the awards, organised
by MRW, has spurred us on to think about even more ways to recycle products
into beautiful accessories.
It is so important to us to have an
ethical and environmentally friendly business.
It just makes sense to reuse wherever
possible; so many things that we get rid of have plenty of life left in them
really.
Our aim at Turtle Doves is to buy many of
the jumpers used in our products from charity shops.
They are often the ones that can’t be
sold for whatever reason and we turn them into beautiful, unique pieces of
clothing.
We make a huge effort to use up as much
of every jumper as possible.
Each jumper is washed and de-fuzzed as
necessary so it’s ready to be worn again.
If there is any of the jumper left, it’s
given back to a charity shop to be sold on to the waste trade for rags.
By sourcing our material in this way, we
have given more than £10,000 to charity just by running our business.
I loves the fact that the items we make
are full of history and memories.
It’s not only recycling the material but
also breathing new life into the clothes, which would otherwise likely end up
in landfill.
Typically every jumper will be used in at
least three different products.
A long cardigan might make four pairs of
Turtle Doves, five scarf pieces and several heart appliques for Hugs.
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Lilac and Blue Mix Hug with Turtle Doves |
Our Turtle Doves are a hybrid between a
fingerless glove and a wrist warmer and come in all the colours of the rainbow.
They make a great eco present and are gift-wrapped in stylish recycled packaging.
We also make cashmere Turtle Doves.
Second-hand cashmere is pretty hard to get hold of so we offer a service where
if people send us their old cashmere jumper, we will send them send them a free
pair of cashmere fingerless gloves.
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Camel and black ladies Turtle Doves fingerless gloves |
Our Hugs are very popular. A hug a
versatile wrap of patchwork jumpers, which can be worn in many different ways –
a Hollywood A-lister even received a hug as a Christmas present last year.
The product range now includes hats,
scarves and snoods.
We also started making patchwork blankets
in 2013 to use up some of the chunkier jumpers.
We’re always thinking about new ways of
using our fabric to fulfill it’s potential.
Turtle Doves products are available to
buy online through the website at www.turtle-doves.co.uk, where you will also
find a video about how to wear our hug.
For more information about
Turtle Doves, call (01743) 344702 or email kate@turtle-doves.co.uk. Also follow on Twitter @LoveTurtleDoves and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Turtle-Doves/229552123805640?bookmark_t=page
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