Our best event yet!
Posted on March 09, '10 by Ben Ramsden. 0 comments
This fairtrade fortnight, as the purveyors of the world’s finest fairtrade pants, we were back to our fun-loving form with the launch of our gorgeous spring collection at the Pigalle club on Piccadilly Circus.
check out the film here!
Teaming up ...
Burlesque PanTEAse!
Posted on February 24, '10 by Ben Ramsden. 0 comments
It’s fairtrade fortnight and so we’re going to be celebrating in true pants style: A magnificent afternoon tea with a sumptuous dollop of Burlesque!
Prepare yourselves for a burlesque parade of fairtrade pants, a belly full of laughs,...
New website, new collection and the unveiling of Pants to Poverty...
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 3 comments
It has been an exceptionally beautiful journey so far. We have travelled through the demos, festivals and high streets of the UK, Europe and the US as well as the fields, factories and highways of India. Some of it has been joyous, other parts p...
Carnival pix and free pants!!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
Well it certainly didn’t rain on our parade at Carnival! We’ve just had an amazing and exhausting event and the first outing of our free styling winged angels… Check out the gallery here:
Created withflickr slideshow.
Now we’re getting ready for ...
We’re on the Guardian all this week!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
We have been kindly asked by the Guardian to be part of their “You ask, they answer” column on their website. This comes after all of the recent accolades we’ve been receiving from our campaign against bayer, gorgeous underwear an brilliant work w...
Campaign Success – Pants Discount!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
On 7th July we launched a totally new campaigning technique and within a week, we achieved our goal! So, it’s time to celebrate with a big thankyou discount!
We targeted BAYER CROP SCIENCES calling on them to stop producing endosulfan, the vile pe...
Beware Panteaters
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
Panteater in the Park: Panteater sightings have been reported across London town. On Sunday 5th July we set up information points to warn people about these terrifying creatures and to teach them about the effects of pesticides and the merits of g...
GLOBAL PANTS AMNESTY!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
It’s been four years now since Make Poverty History (that means we’re four years old!! wahey!). So it’s about time that we put into place an exciting, new, utterly unique campaign, moving right from grain to groin…. something never been done befor...
Shortlisted for observer ethical awards!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
Well, you may have heard about this already but if not, we’ve been shortlisted as ethical business of the year for our gorgeous pants work!
After joint first at the Re:fashion awards and becoming Guinness world record holders at the end of last ye...
FREE TICKETS
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
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If you are in business in fashion, sourcing from Asia is almost inevitable. China is the largest clothing production hu...
A big bang!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
Saturday 9th May is World Fairtrade Day! And for all our pant lovers out there, a great opportunity to be “shake what yer mama gave you” at the BIG BANG! A drum circle of over 1000 drummers will be taking to the streets to Beat Poverty at THE SC...
TIME TO PUT PEOPLE FIRST!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
As the world’s most powerful political financiers come to London, we need to tell them to put people first! In the past, times like this have been devastating especially for the majority world… this can’t happen this time, so we’re donning our pan...
World record breaking pants!!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
It’s official! We are now world record breaking pant lovers!!! 116 people braved the cold, dreary weather to join us at St Pancras International as we set the Guinness World Record for the most people ever gathered in their pants!
Celebrating the ...
Guinness world record day!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
13 November 2008: be a Guinness World Records™ record-breaker!
Join Pants to Poverty in this first-ever Guinness World Records attempt for the most people ever gathered in their underpants! At 9.30am on Thursday, 13th November (Guinness World Reco...
PANT LOVE: PARTY AGAINST POVERTY!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
On Friday, October 17th, we’re holding our first ever pants party to celebrate the power we have in our pants!
There’ll be breakdance, street dance, poetry, discussion, live hip-hop and loads of fairtrade booze and chocolate! YES! it will be amazi...
Win a trip to meet the farmers!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
Well hello there pants lovers! As the summer is here we want to celebrate with a new competition for you to meet, and party with, the lovely people who make our gorgeous pants!
To support our mission to rid the world of bad pants, we want you to ...
Wombats and record breakers!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
YES!! We did it! We set the world record for the most people ever gathered in their pants!! 106!
We went to the Isle of White Festival with Oxfam to support them with their inspirationally named campaign “what gets your knickers in a twist!?”… so ...
Pant flash breaks record!
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
OK, so we might not have set the world record but when a healthy bunch of pant lovers mobilized in Birmingham, we smashed our own records! A deluge of rain might have kept people away but a deluge of press came along to cheer us through!
To mark ...
Birmingham Pantathlon
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
Join us on May 17th for the wildest flash mob and help us break a world record!
In May 1998, 70,000 people formed a human chain in Birmingham to demand that the G8 drop the debt, kickstarting the Make Poverty History movement.
Ten years on, Pants ...
Pocketful
Posted on February 11, '10 by Jay Dias. 0 comments
Our condom pocket pants don’t do enhancement but they do go the extra length.
Not only do they allow you to stash life-saving devices in a place close to hand, but they are also helping to raise funds to fight HIV/AIDS.
This might explain why they...
