The Textiles Standards Committee meets around two to three times per year. We aim to have a wide and representative spread of appropriate expertise on the committee together with consumer and public interest representatives. The Textiles Standards Committee's remit is to develop and keep under review our textiles standards and to deal with any relevant issues referred to the committee from licensees, Soil Association members, the public or our certification department. Agendas of meetings: We like to keep our standards setting process as transparent as possible. To view the last meetings' agendas, please visit the links below. Our minutes will be coming online soon but in the meantime, are available on request. TSC 29/03/07 [PDF, 32 KB] TSC 20/04/06 [PDF, 33 KB] Issues that have arisen in recent meetings: Copper dyes Social standards Global Organic Textiles Standards Current committee members and their expertise: Robert Armitage: Consultant Andrew Filarowski: Society of Dyers and Colourists Kate Fletcher: Eco Textile Consultant Kerry Gilbert: Natural dye researcher Roy Kettlewell: Certifiers of wool quality Chris King: Licensee - textiles William Lana: Chair and licensee - textiles and retailer Gina Moore: Textiles consultant Sarah Ratty: Ethical textile designer Damien Sanfilippo: Pesticide Action Network (UK) This page will be updated as consultations/amendments to textile standards arise. Date of next meeting of the committee: This committee is currently sleeping. For more information, please contact Liz Austin at eaustin@soilassociation.org. VACANCY Consumer members for standards committees We are looking for new consumer member of the Textiles Standards Committee. You must: · Have an interest in the work area of the committee and be able to follow the discussions · Have experience of working to reach collective decisions on committees · Be a Soil Association member with a commitment to organic production. You will need to be able to commit some time to the post. Committees meet around two or three times a year and we have the occasional conference call and email discussion. If you would like more information about any of the committees or would like to send in your CV, please email Amanda at awoodmanhardy@soilassociation.org