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Blue Patch provides creative and sustainably-minded businesses with training, access to knowledge and opportunities, helping to build a thriving sustainable economy in the UK.

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Blue Patch’s Let’s Do Net Zero programme and monthly drop-in workshops support the UK’s brilliant creative businesses with their sustainability. Featured member Carolyn Blake’s exhibition is at Winterbourne House, Birmingham.

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Discover the tastemakers

Featured members ‘Bob & Alf’ make work from discarded materials, typically paper and card.

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  Community of Creatives

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  Ethex

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  Angus Ross

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  Coldharbour Lights

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  Liz Emtage

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  Slow Sofa

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  Sharon Wilson, business coach

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  Flooring By Nature

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  Water – a thirsty business

  Published 25 March 2025

  Managing Water Sustainably in a Changing Climate A Blue Patch online workshop led by Alice Doyle, a Chartered Environmentalist.Supported by the Naturesave Trust What happens when the most idyllic eco-getaway turns into a water-guzzling fantasy gone wrong? That was the creative challenge set at this month’s Blue Patch Drop-in Workshop, where we dove deep (pun […]

  

  by Jane Langley

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  Natural flooring materials

  Published 18 March 2025

  Flooring by Nature does what it says on the tin. They look to source only natural flooring materials or use recycled materials. Their decision came about when they looked around them at flooring suppliers and carpet manufacturers who promoted man-made carpets as the ideal solution for the family home. It is not.  Man-made carpets Man-made […]

  by Annette Clubley

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  The science of colour glazes

  Published 12 March 2025

  Linda Bloomfield likes to make things that people will use. She creates her own colour glazes and teaches others to make them. For her tableware, she works quickly and batches work together to keep the cost down. She prefers that the tableware is used and not kept as a museum piece on a shelf or […]

  by Annette Clubley

Launching as a charity in 2025

Blue Patch is applying for charitable status. The charity’s mission is to provide sustainability education for the creative micro-enterprise sector and to celebrate their achievements. Patrons of Blue Patch, launching mid 2025, enables larger companies and individuals to support the charity’s education programmes, advocacy and public information initiatives.

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Free training for net zero

We provide free training through our LET’S DO NET ZERO programme, helping our business members to understand their carbon footprint, reduce carbon emissions and waste. We also host friendly, monthly drop-ins on sustainability-related issues, led by Chartered Environmentalist Alice Doyle.

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