Get together with the ethical jewellery community and find support on your fair jewellery journey. Established designers, makers, new graduates and independent businesses - whatever stage of the ethical sourcing journey you’re at, you are very welcome.

Start your 2021 with the Fair Luxury Pledge, a new framework to support you and your peers. Pledge-themed Open House events will run quarterly. Set your intentions for a responsible business in 2021, meet like-minded people and be accountable to your community.

Open House is free to attend - please register here.

THEME FOR DISCUSSION: Introducing the Fair Luxury Pledge

Jewellery is bought, displayed and passed on as a token of love, a reflection of our personalities or as means of communicating power and wealth. Though beautiful and sparkly on the surface, sadly jewellery is often tarnished by its journey into fruition, via supply chains that harbour social injustice and perpetuate environmental destruction.

We know that when jewellery is produced responsibly it can provide sustainable livelihoods for all involved - from the miners of raw materials right through the supply chain to the ultimate designer or retailer of the finished piece.

As individual designers, makers, traders and educators we’ve pledged to make changes and business decisions that are driven by more than just profit. In every aspect of our work we seek to ensure that we are achieving and maintaining a safe, sustainable and just industry for all. We dream of one day casting our minds back and feeling proud to place ourselves at the core of the revolution that transformed the jewellery trade for good.

We are each at a different stage in our journey towards responsible business, but we are all working on it. No matter how big or small, our collective actions will change the world. Will you join the movement?

The Fair Luxury Pledge

Through the jewellery we create and the ways we run our businesses, those who make the Fair Luxury Pledge each promise take small steps to help:

-Conserve and restore the environment

-Work in a way that is responsible, transparent and accountable

-Play a role in educating and empowering others

AGENDA

This session wil last 1 hour, it will not be recorded. Please have your camera switched on to make the most of the event.

- 15 min: Short introduction to the Fair Luxury Pledge by Anna Loucah, founder of Anna Loucah fine jewellery. Members of the Fair Luxury team will share their pledges to get participants thinking about what their own pledge might be.

- 30 min: We will go into break out rooms to enable small group conversations. What might your pledge be? It might be something as simple as using only eco cleaning products to wash your workshop floor! Or something bigger like only using gems with a guarentee of provenance. Use the conversation to brainstorm ideas and encourage each other.

- 15 min: We will re-join the main group and each group will share some of their thoughts/ possible intentions for the pledge.

After the event you will be encouraged to fill in our Pledge form.

The aim of the Pledge is to enable you to set realistic goals for yourself and your business, breaking them down into manageable steps.

It's not necessarily about completion, it's more about being accountable aswell as acknowledging and celebrating progress!

The next Pledge Open House will give us all the chance to reflect on our progress and any challenges encountered along the way. It will take place on April 29th at 10am GMT.