The start of a new year and already there are the familiar rumbles of a General Election. The feelings of general unrest seem to be growing, amidst a time of climate anxiety, global boiling, economic upheaval, and broken or overburdened support systems. Resulting in an increase in the polarity between surviving and thriving, with a lack of long-term strategy around our collective wellbeing.

Last year, we released our Creative Wellbeing Economy paper, where we made a case for a deeper, more long term reconnection with core values across the whole of our lives, with a particular focus being wellbeing for people and planet.

Read on for more.

Photo by Florian GIORGIO on Unsplash. Photo shows the Houses of Parliament.

Women have been shown to be more at risk of job losses, which has been the same since Austerity began over a decade ago. Young women are the backbone of the UK fashion industry and we at Fashion Roundtable continue to lobby government to support extended furlough schemes as a second lockdown looms.