Recipes The Wool Clip - Working wonders with wool

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THE multi-tasking abilities of the female race are second to none, but a group of female farmers have proven with time and tenacity they have risen above and beyond that very challenge. FG meets the women behind The Wool Clip.


Ten years ago the ladies of Caldbeck, in Cumbria, decided to start their own business. The group were enthusiastic designers and makers, and had various core denominators - they each enjoyed working with wool and understood the threat falling prices had on British wool and local sheep farmers.

So they decided to create a co-operative to add value to wool and simultaneously raise the profile of their work. A shop would launch which they could collectively share, with the aim of each member to spend a couple of days each month in the shop and use the commission from sales as payment for its upkeep.

Their initiative was co-funded by the Rural Women’s Network and the Carnegie UK Trust who offered £5,000 as an initial incentive and the money enabled the group to take a small unit at Priest’s Mill, Caldbeck, without having to take financial risks.

It did come with other consequences, namely the foot-and-mouth epidemic which happened months before the launch. The closure of footpaths and the absence of tourists made it a difficult time, but not an impossible task.

The Wool Clip co-operative was formed in December 2001 as an Industrial and Provident Society under the Co-operatives UK movement.

Read more http://www.farmersguardian.com/home...-clip-working-wonders-with-wool/43226.article
 
 
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