We’re having a samples and seconds sale, to raise money for an orphanage near to one of our manufacturers, in India.

• Gweek Village Hall (Right next door to the Seal Sanctuary).
• Wednesday, July 8th.
• 10am - 12.30pm

There will be loads of bargains to be had as we aim to sell sell sell.

See you there?

Kurt

Some of the Frugi gang are going up to the ‘Big smoke’ at the Bubble trade show at the business design centre today. They’ve packed their Cornish passports, emergency pasty supplies, saffron cakes and a flask of Spingo. (A local brew).

Good luck, young Frugi warriors. Let the world gaze upon your quality organic cotton wares in awe and come home triumphant in a few days.

Missing you already

Planet Frugi is a busy place these days! Mark, our warehouse manager, is snowed under. So, we’re looking for someone to help.

The job advert, in the paper, reads thus…

Another Brilliant person required! (Full time, Mon-Fri)

Are you articulate, accurate, hard-working, fit, reliable and generally brilliant?   Then we need you to help pick, pack and despatch orders. (Computer skills advantageous and some heavy lifting involved). 

CV + letter to infoatwelovefrugidotcom or Francesca, Frugi, The High Barn, Gear Farm, St. Martin, Helston, Cornwall. TR12 6DE

So, if you’re local and fancy joining the team…drop us a line!

As part of our 1% for the planet membership we financially support the MSN. Below is a copy of their latest press release.

Well done them!!

Isles of Scilly volunteers trained

in marine mammal strandings

Keen wildlife enthusiasts on the Isles of Scilly have joined a band of volunteer researchers who record stranded marine animals around the coast. Their new skills will enable them to measure and photograph dolphins, seals and other animals that strand on the shore to help with ongoing research.

Fifteen new recruits from the various islands attended a training course on St Mary’s, run by Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Marine Strandings Network (MSN).

“Given the small population on the islands, we were really pleased with the response. We now have a core group of trained volunteers who we know we can call on should the need arise.” said Ruth Williams, Marine Conservation Officer for the Trust.

“We couldn’t have run the course at a better time.” added MSN Co-ordinator, Jan Loveridge. “In the last two weeks alone, we’ve had five stranded animals reported on the islands: three harbour porpoises and two common dolphins, one of which stranded alive and was rescued by our colleagues from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and people on the islands. One of the porpoises was an 81cm long, new-born calf that stranded on St Agnes. It was retrieved by coastguard Mike Hicks and taken on the launch, the Lyoness Lady, to St Mary’s. Then our friends at the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company very kindly brought it back to the mainland on the Scillonian III. They, and Mike, have helped us several times in the past and we can’t thank them enough for that.”

The baby harbour porpoise, which probably got separated from its mother and possibly stranded alive, was taken to the Veterinary Laboratory Agency in Truro for post-mortem examination.

Mike Hicks was among the delegates who attended the course, as was the island’s vet, Heike Dorn. Representatives and volunteers from the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust (IoSWT) also attended and together they form a great partnership for the islands.

“It’s great that there’s now a team of us to record any strandings we get here on Scilly.” said Ann Horton, a Trustee of IoSWT who has been reporting stranded animals to the Marine Strandings Network for some years. “We get some very interesting animals here in the Isles of Scilly, including rare ones, and the course will help us to identifying different species, know what to do and how to help.”

Protecting Wildlife for the Future

Five Acres Allet Truro Cornwall TR4 9DJ   Tel: (01872) 273939 Fax: (01872) 225476   e-mail: info@cornwt.demon.co.uk   Website: www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk                                                                     Registered Charity Name: Cornwall Trust for Nature Conservation Ltd.   Registered Charity No: 214929   A company limited by guarantee   Registration No: 732511   VAT No: 557 3030 53   Registered office: Five Acres, Allet, Truro, Cornwall TR4 9DJ.   Affiliated to The Wildlife Trusts

The course was organised through the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust with funding from the The Isles of Scilly Sustainable Development fund (SDF) which is a grant scheme that supports projects that bring social, environmental and economic benefit to the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. 

The Marine Strandings Network also receives financial support from Frugi, the highly successful children’s organic clothing company, who have an ongoing contribution commitment, as a percentage of its turnover (whether profit or loss), to the MSN through the 1% For the Planet Scheme.

“Frugi’s support for our work is vital, and without it we’d find it very hard to run these courses or to keep the Marine Strandings Network functioning so actively,” said Ruth Williams.

Kurt Jewson, co-founder of Frugi added “We’ve been supporting Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Marine Standings Network for three years as the cutting edge research work that they do is amazing. We want to help the Trust raise as much money as possible to protect marine wildlife and would encourage other businesses to do the same and donate today.”

Cornwall Wildlife Trust strandings partners, British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) ran a live strandings rescue training course the next day which many of the same volunteers attended.

Ruth added “Running the BDMLR course as well as our own Strandings course means that we now have volunteers who are trained to help with rescuing live animals as well as recording those that don’t survive or that wash ashore dead. To have that group of dedicated volunteers is a fantastic achievement for the islands and the information they provide will be invaluable.”

Anyone wishing to report stranded marine wildlife can call the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine Strandings Network on 0845 201 2626.

You see, when it comes to buying clothes we are torn by the compulsion of desire. Good design and quality manufacturing, coupled with good branding = a great product. It is very difficult to look beyond this even if you err on the, as Jeremy Clarkson would say, Ecomentalist side!

The challenge for clothing companies is, therefore, to make their clothes both desirable and as environmentally friendly as possible. Since we started Cut4Cloth (Now Frugi) 5 years ago, the number of retailers selling, and the quality of  organic cotton clothes they sell has increased dramatically.

Gone are the itchy-scratch hippy dippy garments of the past, replaced by beautifully designed quality clothes.

This is a good thing. It means that more people will buy organic, because the clothes are desirable.  For many, the ethical aspect is an added bonus. 

What needs to happen is for all manufacturing and retailing to operate in as an environmentally friendly fashion as possible. Then, by default, consumers will be buying ‘green’ without knowing it.

Then we can all look ‘cool’ in our amazing ‘threads’…man, without having to do any tie-dying whatsoever. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that you understand….phew )

By

That dude, Kurt Jewson

Ok…we have a mission.

We’re nearly at 1000 facebook fans…but not quite!!

We would really like 1000 fans. It’s just such a lovely number.

So, to encourage you to become a fan we’ve got a super deal.

Once we get to 1000 facebook fans we’re going to offer every single fan a 30% discount on our lovely scrummy organic cotton clothes.(Excluding items already at sale prices)

 This offer will last for 2 days. (Don’t worry, as soon as the offer is on we’ll tell you, and give you the special secret, don’t tell a soul code)

So if you’re not a fan, become one. If you are a fan, invite your facebook friends to become one.

Go forth, young Skywalker, and may the frugi force be with you!

Click HERE to go to the fan page.