Monthly Podcast: Tamara Cincik In conversation with Kate Hills, Make it British
For our first-ever podcast, Fashion Roundtable‘s Tamara Cincik speaks with Kate Hills – a woman on a self-proclaimed mission to save UK manufacturing. We discuss the reasons why we should all champion British manufacturing as well as covering our collaboration to push the Government for greater UK-made, reusable PPE.
Following a 20-year fashion career with jobs at Burberry, Marks & Spencer, Levi’s and Debenhams, Kate created her website Make It British in 2011 to celebrate brands that manufacture their products in the UK.
To me the offshoring of production seems very short-sighted. Britain was a successful industrial nation for centuries – the industrial revolution started here after all – so why would we want to lose all that skill and the ability to make things on our doorstep? Worried about the skills we were losing, I started to do some research on the brands and manufacturers that were left in the UK, and I found that despite what the majority of people thought, there were still lots of manufacturing being done in the UK, says Kate.
A passionate advocate for all things made British, in this podcast Kate and our founder and CEO Tamara Cincik talk about:
• Why Kate set up Make it British in the first place
• Why we should all be passionate about British manufacturing
• How to uncover the amazing businesses that are still making in the UK
• Make It British’s collaboration with Fashion Roundtable to push the Government for greater UK-made, reusable PPE
• The social benefits of onshoring UK manufacturing and Brexit!