Supporting skills growth
in the fashion and textile industry

CapitB Trust supports the fashion and textile industry by helping businesses, organisations, and individuals access funding for training. Whether you wish to nurture future talent, increase your employees’ skills, or complete a training programme yourself – CapitB can help. Simply make an application to get the process started! CapitB Trust supports the fashion and textile industry by helping businesses, organisations, and individuals access funding for training. Whether you wish to nurture future talent, increase your employees’ skills, or complete a training programme yourself – CapitB can help. Simply make an application to get the process started!

Who we are

CapitB Trust is a charity that provides financial support for training and development initiatives across the UK fashion and Textile sector – a full list of the sector we can support is below

Our Trustees are all industry specialists and welcome applications that demonstrate how the funding will be used to enhance skills and capability within the sector. We accept applications for grants from individuals and businesses of all sizes.

Are you planning to embark on a training programme to improve your or your workforce’s skill level? CapitB could provide financial support to help you deliver it. Whether you need help kick starting an initiative or acquiring new skills, we may be able to support.

Get in touch with us!

What We Do

The Trustees assess whether each application meets our funding criteria. Businesses have already benefited from the Trust’s grants, including Richard Anderson, Henry Poole & Co, H Huntsman & Sons, The Tailoring Academy, Hawick Knitwear, and Samuel Brothers.

On top of its own funding activities, CapitB also works in partnership with other like-minded bodies such as the Textile Centre of Excellence and the UK Fashion & Textile Association. We also support industry initiatives that showcase skilled individuals and new talents, including the Golden Shears Awards.

We might be able to help you with your fashion and textile training needs. Click on the link below to find out if you are eligible to apply for a grant.

Who Can Apply

We support the development of skills in the sector through financial assistance to:

Individuals – to enable you to undertake a training programme that will give you the skills required in the UK fashion

Employers – to provide skills training programmes to your employees

Sector Organisations  to run competitions that promote the development of skills needed by the UK fashion and textile industry or to support skills development

Further Education Institutions or Promotional Activity Organisations looking to provide training programs to meet the needs of industry.

If you need support, we welcome applications all year round.

What We Cover

  • Manufacture of woven and knitted garments 
  • Accessories (excluding jewellery) and millinery 
  • Surface enhancement of garments (pleating, embroidery etc)
  • Interiors and home textiles
  • Yarn production (including extrusion, twisting and spinning)
  • Weaving (including 3D weaving)
  • Knitting (including 3D knitting)
  • Dyeing
  • Printing
  • Textile finishing and processing (including combing, scouring, warping, waxing, bonding etc)
  • Leather production and the manufacture of sewn leather products
  • The manufacture of technical textiles and composites*

*technical textile and composites includes the use of any textile fibre or any textile manufacturing technique where the end product is used in a huge range of applications and industries outside the traditional clothing and textile sector.

Success Stories

Elizabeth Cooper
The Tailoring Academy

Full time seamstress Elizabeth Cooper chose CapitB to help her fund a course at the Tailoring Academy. She said: “I am so grateful for all the tutors at the Tailoring Academy, and for the CAPITB Trust for helping fund my
study.”

Cockpit Art
Fashion-Forward Programme

Cockpit Arts, London’s leading studios for contemporary makers, contacted CapitB for support with the delivery of workshops. The fund enabled them to launch a 12-month fashion-forward programme to help craftspeople develop their skillset.

Atelier Tammam
Training in Couture Corsetry

Lucy, from Atelier Tammam, reached out to CapitB to help fund seamstress Michela Fulgoni’s training in couture corsetry. Lucy said that thanks to this training,
she was able to: “give her work on corset samples
for our upcoming collection.”