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A day out: Lambeth Country Show 2
Published 23 July 2014The Lambeth Country Show was massive! At a conservative guess 200,000 people swarmed across the green and pleasant lands of Brockwell Park, south London and partied like crazy for two days. The sun shone, the sweat rolled, music blasted and finally at 5pm on Sunday the rain fell and fell like an entire reservoir was tipped […]
Team Updates
Published 22 July 2014We had celebrations at Blue Patch this week! Alberto our Business and Marketing graduate from Madrid, has been awarded the highly sought after EU Leonardo Da Vinci fund to work with Blue Patch. Chantelle Senior is no longer working at Blue Patch, however she’s very much a part of the family (we all miss […]
Discovering local: Lambeth Country Show
Published 18 July 2014Come and explore Blue Patch our ethical directory for UK hand made products and services at the Lambeth Country Show this weekend, Brockwell Park, south London. Head for the back of tent P4 (near the picnic area) where Blue Patch teamsters, Emma, Rachael, Julia, Sujesh, Alberto and Jane will be giving you a taste of […]
Discovering local: Cockpit Arts
Published 2 July 2014Cockpit Arts 18 – 22 Creekside, Deptford, south London, has to be the place to go for collectors, fans and connoisseurs of contemporary crafts. A couple of times a year they throw open the studio doors and invite the public in to relish a treasure trove of high quality and beautiful things. We spent 5 hours there one […]
A day out: Meet the manufacturer
Published 17 June 2014On a glorious sunny morning Emma, Rachael, Julia and I headed over to Brick Lane in east London to Meet the Manufacturer, a trade fair bringing together the UK’s ‘hard to pin down’ manufacturers. Focusing on textiles, the fair mounted by Kate Hills of Make it British, was in the perfect area, from the Huguenot […]
A day out: Future Foundation 2014
Published 6 June 2014On a rain sodden morning in Euston, I washed up at the Future Foundation’s 2014 marketing conference ‘Not Here To Come Second’. Eloquent and ahead of the game, Futurites pulled me through a whirlpool of Big Data and got me thinking about hashtags – a lot. I filled my tatty exercise book (@IKeepItReal – #SmartPhoneImean). […]
A day out: Wise Creative
Published 31 May 2014Thursday 29th of May and ‘The Wise Creative’ landed. Everyone climbed aboard starship ethical and off we went for an evening of glorious indulgence, accompanied by fantastic UK designed, cut, stitched, hemmed, rolled and fizzed up brands. The Wise Creative are briefly gathered under one collaborative roof at no 10A Blandford Street, London W1, a […]
Making connections: Guardian Sustainable Business Awards 2014
Published 26 May 2014The Guardian Sustainable Business Awards 2014 with Fair Quinoa Vodka ‘expresso’ cocktails flowing, was the perfect opportunity to meet and share stories with ‘the eco-converted’. Bruce from Abundance Generation won the Net Positive Innovation Award – Go Bruce! I also had a chat with Katie from the Fairtrade Foundation about how they work with very […]
A day out: Artists Open House
Published 20 May 2014Weekend no 2 at the Artist’s Open House in south east London yielded more wonderful things. Hidden at the end of a long, thin garden in Forest Hill is Lydia Brenchley’s shed. Step inside and you discover the artist has been occupied with trees, tracing the complex patterns of leaves, light and branches, rendering them […]
Artists Open House 2014
Published 12 May 2014The Dulwich Festival’s Artist’s Open House 2014 offers a fantastic opportunity to enter the discreet world of south east London’s creative community. Open over two weekends, you can check out what you fancy via their online catalogue, or you can pick up an illustrated catalogues from local cafes, libraries, bookshops and – well almost everywhere, […]
A day out: Natural & Organic Products
Published 26 April 2014My day out at Natural & Organic Products, held at Olympia (it’s moving to Excel for 2015) begun with a stirring talk by the charismatic and environmentally minded business man Craig Sams, covering the state of the world, the economics of sustainability and how things are changing for the better – and by making the effort to be informed consumers […]
Chantalle talking about food 2
Published 2 April 2014Supporting local enterprises, appreciating British produce and encouraging others to get dirty in their kitchens is a passion of Tasty Titbits. So here is a little sneak peak into the Tasty Titbits kitchen. A few Sundays back, in traditional Caribbean style, my parents invited my Uncle Johnny and his family to dinner. Sunday dinners are […]
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