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Empowering the creatives
at the heart of the
circular economy

For centuries, skilled creatives have been maintaining, repairing, altering, improving and repurposing items for our communities.

We are working with local independents to design the digital solutions that will allow them to spend more time doing the parts of the job they love.

At Trendle, we want to ensure the resilience of traditional services in a world where fast fashion and throwaway culture has become the norm.

If you want to be part our research, talk about investment or find out how we can collaborate…

  • It is predicted that the fashion industry will see a 50% increase in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

    Bailey, Basu & Sharma, 2022

  • The fashion industry accounts for 20% of all global wastewater

    Bailey, Basu & Sharma, 2022

  • 57% of people intend to repair items in the next year

    Research Live

  • Professional repairs offer a 1.35x extension on garment lifespan

    McKinsey & Company Report, 2020

What is Trendle?

A web and mobile app that supports clothing repair and alterations specialists and their customers from first enquiries through to job completion, and beyond.

We’ll help you save TIME and MONEY with our all-in-one solution to managing inbound enquiries, customers, social media and jobs.

(No more expensive software, looking for post-it notes, or stress-related social media meltdowns required!)

  • Job creator

  • Communicator

  • Match maker

  • Profiling

Local Specialist, Southampton

“I feel like we are a bit of a forgotten industry. We are stuck in the past but our skills are still needed, so we need a way to overcome that.”

  • Reducing purchasing of new clothes has the potential to deliver an average per capita reduction of 327kg CO2e / capita / year

  • Professional repairs offer a 1.35x extension to the lifespan on garments

  • The average UK adult leaves a quarter (26%) of their wardrobe unworn for at least a year

  • 77% of those asked at a clothes repair workshop said that they would keep the item that they had mended for at least another 3 years

  • Extending the life of clothes by just 9 months would reduce carbon, water and waste footprints by 20-30% each

  • 61% of Londoners would repair more if they knew of local repair shops