Stitch is an organisation that raises environmental awareness through the arts. Stitch does this by hosting events that use art to inspire and engage people with environmental issues.
Art is a great way to inspire people and to bring about social change. Stitch uses art as a tool to communicate the importance of a variety of different environmental issues to a wide audience. We are an expanding population with a limited amount of space and resources and we only have one planet. At our rates in the UK currently we are consuming more than it can naturally provide.
Stitch uses a variety of different events such as art exhibitions, photography competitions and short film festivals to appeal to people in different ways. We work on these events with a range of different collaborators including ethical brands and environmental charities to further increase their exposure and people's understanding of the work that they are doing.
Through these events Stitch hopes to engage people with one of the greatest issues of our time and to bring about change in a range of areas including ethical consumer choices in food, energy, and other products, increased recycling, reduced water consumption and more.
Stitch plans to develop a formula for these events that will be taken to cities across the country. By collaborating with universities, business, charities, students and locals Stitch will create events that further increase environmental awareness amongst a wide number of people.
Stitch sustains itself through the events themselves, by providing people with enjoyable evenings that are entertaining, informative and that help the planet. We welcome contributions to help us with our work. We are a not-for-profit organisation which means that we do not have shareholders or pay dividends – all of the money that we make goes back into the work that we do and over 10% of our profits go towards the selected charities that we support for each event. We are currently operating without paid staff, formal offices or other operating costs and have relied purely on volunteers to get our first events off the ground.
Objectives:
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Encourage responsible and sustainable behavior and spread the message of environmental awareness.
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Inspire all age groups to change damaging habits and to communicate environmental protection methods.
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Support and promote the arts in numerous forms.
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Cooperate with, and promote, other environmental and arts organisations.
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Draw attention to ethical companies, laws, and activities as well as discouraging damaging practices.
Awareness → Education → Action
For More information or if you would like to get involved please contact: info@stitchproject.com