This weekend (15/16 June), Community Clothing returns for the second year at the We Invented The Weekend Festival at Media City in Salford, Manchester.

This time, the campaigning clothing brand will be running the Big Community Jumble Sale pop-up, selling secondhand clothes, slight factory seconds, shoot and studio samples and other pieces the team has unearthed at the various factories they work with.

Sold for about a quarter of what a new version would usually cost, it’s all part of the brand’s mission “to make good clothes available to all, and to remind everyone that great quality clothes will last a very long time, and will get better with age”. 

Community Clothing added: “We need to make big changes to the way we consume. We need to buy less, buy better and move from the destructive linear make-use-dispose model, to a beneficial climate and people positive circular use-reuse-repair-recycle-repeat model. 

The charity is based in Blackburn and currently works with 42 UK clothing and textile factory partners. Of these 14 are within an hour of the Manchester pop up and the brand “hopes that the event will also help highlight the benefits of local clothing production, both for the many jobs it supports and its role in reducing environmental impact”.