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CycleUp Textiles News

Roscommon Herald and Westmeath Independent features, March 2025

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CycleUp Textiles and Keelin Moncrieff - Growing Up podcast episode

Stitching a new future: empowering women through creativity and sustainability

In this inspiring episode, Keelin Moncrieff sits down with Nora Fahy, the manager of the Roscommon Women's Network and the driving force behind CycleUp Textiles, a social enterprise that is transforming scrap fabric into one-of-a-kind bags and gifts. Nora shares the story of how CycleUp Textiles not only promotes sustainability by upcycling materials, but also serves as a stepping stone for women in the community, offering training in sewing, design, and textile skills to empower them and open doors to employment opportunities.

 

Learn about the powerful impact of this initiative on both the environment and the lives of women, as Nora discusses the journey of building the enterprise and the invaluable support they’ve received from the EU Just Transition Fund. This funding has played a crucial role in helping the organization expand its reach and further its mission of empowerment and economic inclusion.

 

Tune in for an insightful conversation about how creativity, community, and sustainability intersect in meaningful ways, and how social enterprises like CycleUp Textiles are making a difference.

 

This episode is proudly sponsored by the EU Just Transition Fund. To find out more about the help the EU Just Transition Fund offers around Europe, visit this website;  https://www.emra.ie/eu-jtf/

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RDS Dublin Horse Show and CycleUp Textiles

August 2024

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Exciting news!! CycleUp Textiles are exhibiting at the RDS Dublin Horse Show from 14th - 18th August 2024. You can find us as part of the RDS Foundations exhibition in the Concert Hall area and we will be demonstrating how we use material that needs to make new memories and turn them in to fabulous high quality, unique and sustainable upcycled bags and gifts that are made here in Athleague, Co Roscommon in Ireland.

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This is an amazing opportunity and we are looking forward to meeting so many people and talking about all things CycleUp and Roscommon Women's Network.  Please come and say hi if you are there.

CycleUp Textiles wins RDS Spring Award for Rural Social Impact

MAY 2024

Delighted to Announce that Roscommon Women's Network - RWN CycleUp has won the Sustainable Rural Social Impact Award at the #RDSSpringAwards! Huge congratulations to all the CycleUp Team, Volunteers, RWN Staff and RWN Charity Shop. Well done Jennifer and Maria for a terrific application. We are honoured with this national accolade from the Royal Dublin Society

 

It was our privilege to be able to attend the awards ceremony alongside so many other wonderful rural businesses. To have been chosen as winners in our category for Rural Social Impact and to be recognised for the work we do with women living in rural areas and for the environmental impact of saving textile waste from landfill means so much to every person that has been involved from the original idea born from the RWN Charity shop to where CycleUp is today. Thank you everyone for your support and here is to many more years of progress.

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Pop-Up Shop opens in Roscommon Town

March 2024

On Friday 22nd March 2024 CycleUp Textiles opened it's first pop-up shop in the Harrison Centre, Roscommon Town.  The shop will showcase all of the unique and environmentally friendly products handmade from 100% upcycled textiles. It is a huge step forward in bringing the circular economy to Roscommon Town and engaging  the public in its benefits for all.

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The shop will be staffed by volunteers from CycleUp and the Roscommon Women's Network and we will be happy to hear from anyone with experience who would like to join us.

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CycleUp Textiles 

Riverside Centre, Athleague, Co Roscommon, F42 K685, Ireland

CycleUp is a circular economy environmental and training social enterprise developed and operated by Roscommon Women’s Network – Women’s Collective Ireland.

 
This project is supported by the Department of Rural and Community Development and Pobal through the Community Services Programme
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RWN CycleUp Textiles Skills and Product Innovation Project is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the EU Just Transition Fund Programme 2021-2027
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