AKTIVISM

Launched Green Commute where staff get £3 per day for riding, walking or taking public transport to work.

Awarded Ethical Consumer magazine Best Buy alongside Patagonia, Paramo and Vaude.

Highly commended in edie sustainability awards. Adopted our minerals from conflict zone policy.

As part of our commitment to making our range more inclusive we worked with Every Body Outdoors to review our fit and extended our size range from 6 to 20 for women and XS-XXL for men. We were one of just two brands in a recent group test of a dozen leading brands to size larger than 16 in womens.

Sonder Camino Al wins 9 out of 10 in road. cc review.

Launched Ranger jacket – a genuine organic cotton alternative to waterproof hardshell for those who want to minimise fossil fuel derived materials on the hill.

Held fundraisers for Mountain Rescue, donating 10% of total store sales to Mountain Rescue teams.

Opened our 9th store in Kingston-uponThames.

Launched a design project with Nottingham Trent University and carried out work on 3 detailed life cycle analyses of our products.

Plastic bag reduction project. We ship approx. 80% of our product naked from our factories. We estimate this has reduced our use of single use plastic bags by 300,000 bags saving 30 tonnes of plastic a year.

Had our 200th volunteer day.

Our carbon footprint methodology is verified by Nottingham Trent University funded by a European Regional Development Fund initiative.

Alpkit won best brand in Country Walking Magazine awards.

Diversified our ownership with 4,000 customers now part owners of Alpkit.

Alpkit won best brand in TGO Magazine annual awards.

Definition, our flagship and world’s first PFC-free mountaineering jacket, wins Editor’s Choice in Trek & Mountain against comparable jackets literally twice the price from other brands.