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The shirt off your back. Investigating the real deal in the garment industry.

Is the cotton in your shirt ‘clean’? It’s been washed, but is it dirty in a different way? Are the cotton farmers working in a plantation getting a fair deal? Is your shirt contributing to hospitals and schools being built, or to wasted communities and environments? Come and debate the issues and discuss what we as students, particularly school and college students, can do to clean up fashion.

Stacey Dooley

Stacey is the star of BBC3’s ‘Stacey Dooley Investigates’, a young person whose life took an unexpected turn when she travelled to India for Blood, Sweat And T-Shirts to live and work alongside the people in the Indian fashion industry

Barbara Crowther, Fairtrade Foundation

Barbara Crowther is Head of Communications for the Fairtrade Foundation, a non-profit organization that works with businesses, community groups and individuals to improve the trading position of producer organizations in the global South, and promote sustainable livelihoods, using the Fairtrade mark — as a tool for development.

Steve Grinter

Steve Grinter is the Education Secretary for the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation, which is a Global Union Federation bringing together 217 affiliated organisations in 110 countries.