2025 Showcase finalists
ABOUT TEX+
TEX+ is a career accelerator, connecting the next generation with textile industry professionals to build skills, networks and futures.
Our aim is to provide opportunities for textile graduates from UK universities as they embark on their professional lives, making lasting social impact through work placements, financial awards, best practice guidance and peer-to-peer support.
TEX+ is a charity driven by a group for whom textiles has been the foundation of their diverse career paths. Textiles by nature have wide ranging applications and are integral to all our lives.
Our mission is to coalesce professionals across textile disciplines with the next generation of textile practitioners, offering guidance and opportunities for young people as they embark on their professional lives.
TEX+ is acknowledged as being of public benefit and in December 2024 TEX+ achieved Charitable Incorporated Organisation status by the Charity Commission of England and Wales (Registered Charity Number 1211314).
The charity’s annual programme bringstogether new textile practitioners who havetrained in the UK and experiencedmembers of industry who share with themtheir knowledge and advice.
Through the annual programme, TEX+offers textile graduates support in fourways:
Visibility
Mentoring
Awards
Connections
2025 finalist and Liberty Fabrics Studio Prize winner
Esme Whitton with Odette Moncur, Creative Planning Manager, Liberty Fabrics
Visibility
Through a selection process informed bytextile industry professionals, we shine aspotlight on emerging talent and give them aplatform to be seen and celebrated.
Photography Credit James Champion
Mentoring
We connect the next generation oftextile creatives with experiencedprofessionals from across the industry,offering guidance,
encouragement and insider knowledge.
AWARDS
We recognise and reward excellence in textiledesign and innovation, giving young talent theconfidence to develop their careers.
Connections
We create a community where textilestudents, alumni, and peers connect witheach other and with the wider industry, buildingsupportive networks that last.
