The Innovation Exchange: Circular Fashion, Sourcing & Sustainability

Taking place at St Austell Conference Centre, The Innovation Exchange is a lunchtime event (11am – 2 pm) where Cornish businesses can meet to engage, gather knowledge and connect with other businesses in Cornwall.

Guest speaker:

Lauren Plummer - Green Threads Cornwall

Lauren Plummer is the founder of Green Threads, a sustainable fashion initiative rooted in circularity, community, and creativity. Through pop-up events and digital storytelling, Green Threads makes slow fashion more visible, desirable, and accessible - championing pre-loved, reuse, repair, and reworking as joyful, low-impact alternatives to fast fashion.

The mission is to make sustainable fashion and circularity more community-driven and accessible by raising awareness, sharing practical tools, and inspiring action at the grassroots level - connecting fashion with climate and social justice. What started as pop-up events has grown into a platform offering education, consultancy, inspiration and resources to help individuals, businesses, and communities rethink consumption.

This event is capped to 30 guests. If you'd like to pitch at the event, please contact: strideevents@plymouth.ac.uk or simply notify us on the day.

A complimentary lunch is provided.

Delivered by the University of Plymouth - STRIDE, on behalf of the Good Growth Fund.

STRIDE is a high impact, bespoke intensive innovation programme designed to support innovative businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The programme focuses on businesses who have the potential to commercially exploit new ideas and technology to scale and grow their business.

Designed to accelerate innovation and economic growth, STRIDE delivers bespoke high value, intensive interventions to businesses through a series of interlinked reinforcing activities which deliver true innovation with measurable business improvements that link to new funding opportunities.

Building on the success of the University of Plymouth flagship business innovation project in Cornwall, Acceleration Through Innovation (ATI), STRIDE focuses on those sectors detailed within the Good Growth Investment Plan - clean energy resources, geo-resources, data and space, visitor economy and agri-food. The project will also support businesses outside of these sectors where there are clear opportunities for research and innovation to drive growth and productivity.

To find out more about STRIDE, contact the Good Growth Hub:https://www.ciosgrowthhub.com/

By registering for this event, you agree to your registration data being stored with University of Plymouth, Good Growth Fund and Cornwall Council.

*This event is funded via the C&IoS Shared Prosperity Fund. In compliance with the UK subsidy control, the above activity has been costed at a Minimum Financial Assistance (MFA) rate of £130. In attending this event, you are confirming that this, along with any previous support received (e.g. Deminimis) will not exceed the MFA threshold of £315,000 cumulated over the current and the previous two financial years.*

This project is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Cornwall Council has been chosen by Government as a Lead Authority for the fund and is responsible for monitoring the progress of projects funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.