Meet inspirational city folk
Jewellery designer Sinead set up the Crafty Fox pop-up market a year ago to give emerging designers and crafters an opportunity to showcase their work in a community-driven setting. I caught …
Created in 1937 by landscape gardener Ralph Hancock, the Kensington Roof Gardens are arguably the original rural escape in the city. In April 2009, he ...
Launched in July, Retro Roost brings the craft fair online. It offers British designers the chance to sell their work – from jewellery to photograph ...
LULR’s 15 minutes with cook, food writer and TV presenter Valentine Warner began with a chat about Monster Munch and ended on the subject of green t ...
Having been a singer all her life, working with the likes of Michael Jackson, Ronnie Scott and Dionne Warwick, I’m ready to forgive Popchoir founder Helen Hampton for being a ...
The Victorians did many important things for us, not least planting enough trees to make London one of the leafiest capital cities on the planet. Strolling round London’s vast parks ...
The iconic Savoy hotel has stood at the heart of London’s Strand since 1889. But until recently, it lacked a green agenda. That is, until self-made environmental ambassador Debra Patterson ...
It isn’t unusual to find me sitting on my living room floor surrounded by rolls of wallpaper, offcuts, rulers, brushes, pots of ink and pieces of lino tile. This is ...
Conservation devotees have for years championed gardening as a fantastic way to keep fit, and none more so than environmental charity BTCV. The organisation established its first Green Gym more ...
When New York journalist and editor Jennifer Pirtle found there was nowhere in London for her to learn basic crafts without paying a fortune for a long, expensive and official ...
