British Fashion Council (BFC), The UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT) and UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) have launched the Circular Fashion Innovation Network (CFIN) with a two-year ambition to create an Industrial Scale Change Programme for the UK fashion and textile industry through a lens of circularity and innovation. The network, which is co-chaired by BFC CEO, Caroline Rush and UKFT CEO, Adam Mansell, will sit under the Institute of Positive Fashion (IPF) and will bring together industry, innovators, investors, academia and broader stakeholders through an action-led roadmap to accelerate the UK to a leading circular fashion economy.

The Advisory Board spans luxury, premium, high street, supermarket and value-led businesses and representatives from UKRI, Academia and NGOs. The role of the Advisory Board is to focus on the vision of the network, receive briefings from the Working Groups and address scalability across the UK. The network’s action-led road map will be developed in accordance with competition laws and other applicable laws and regulations. The network will receive £1.8m which is jointly allocated to the BFC and UKFT to run the network, build the community, accelerate knowledge share to members and industry and activate required industry-led research. The CFIN will play an essential central convening role in UKRI’s £15m Circular Fashion programme to accelerate positive change within the fashion industry.