Community Engagement

In the process of mapping and redesigning our ecosystem and how it interconnects with our community locally, we have changed whom we see as our stakeholders and the way we engage in a wider interconnected system.

This has lead to projects in the local community, more engagement from Win-Win Textiles and our employees.

We have an ongoing collaboration with Laboratório da Paisagem, The Landscape Laboratory, in the municipality of Guimarães, who calculate our emissions and they manage the scientific side of our annual reforestation event.

Win-Win Textiles work with the Municipality of Guimarães engaging in several EU projects and we are part of the Guimarães 2030 project. You can read more about this here.

We engage with Yogadhipa, our local yoga studio and also spiritual partner at Win-Win Textiles and have made projects together trying to gather local citizens to discuss sustainability. Se more about this here and about our engagement in yoga.

The University of Minho is also an important stakeholder for Win-Win Textiles. We have done projects with their design department on upcycling of waste materials from clothing manufacturers and have facilitated visits from KEA - Copenhagen School of Design & Technology for whom we also annually plan visits to factories and invite the student to our company for seminars on sustainability and regeneration. We have from time to time interns from both The University of Minho and KEA at our company.

Win-Win Textiles is a member of CITEVE and Cluster Têxtil, which you can read more about here and we are a member of the UN Global Compact.

We are a signatory of the Interdependence Coalition, have completed de B Corp legal amendment to our articles of association holding shareholders and management legally responsible and committed to consider all stakeholders in decision-making.

Win-Win Textiles is a member of Textile Exchange and work after their standards and recommendation in relation to preferred materials in our sourcing activities.

These projects are supported by Win-Win Textiles:

Forests of the World, where we help protect the rainforests through donations, Casa da Criança, a non-profit organization in our hometown, Guimarães, working with social solidarity creating a temporary home for children, who have been abused, neglected or abandoned. We make donations and collect garments from manufacturers for their Christmas shop generating funds, and we support the local organization of ReFood in Guimarães working to reduce food waste. ReFood collects food residues at restaurants and supermarkets and bring them to their kitchen to create meals for families in need. We support through donations and some of our staff members work voluntarily in the kitchen preparing the meals.

At Win-Win Textiles the staff members can take two paid days off work per year to invest in voluntary work, demonstrations or other social activities.

The bigger our profit from operations, the more we can invest in such projects.