The Team
Vicky Putler - Founder / Director
Vicky Putler started Flax Project C.I.C. in April 2023. Her vision is a sustainable, green, UK textiles/fibre industry - from field to fabric, a flax processing hub for the SWUK and a local linen with a parallel slow textiles education programme, a community built around local textiles. She previouly ran a hand screen-printed linen business, Thorody, with her husband Theo, for 10 years, this has now been superseded by the desire to make linen.
Rudolph Archer - Director
Flax Project C.I.C is delighted to announce the appointment of Rudolph Archer as a director. Rudolph is a local gardener with a background in chefing, international projects and commmunity development. Passionate about sustainability, Rudolph has a particular interest in diversity and inclusion - celebrating our differences whilst finding the commonalities which unite people. Through the Flax Project, Rudolph has enjoyed making connections with local people and community groups, and is enjoying exploring heritage crafts, whilst reflecting on his own Jamaican heritage.
Thank you to the following people and organisations who advised us and really helped get us going at the start, and continue to lend us an ear:
Tamar Grow Local who set up the Farm Start initiative in the Tamar Valley and from whom we rent the land.
We have a brilliant mentor and social enterprise expertise and support from Unltd.
Inspirational Flax experts Simon and Ann Cooper, of Flaxland.
Colum Pawson of Schumacher College, Dartington.
Farming family members, Jacob and Nick, of Fosse Meadows, in Leicestershire.
We had guidance from Roger Pipe of Millfields Trust and Sophie Glover of Makers HQ, both in Plymouth, on employment, training and social enterprise.
Snapdragons Forest School, in Victoria Park, Plymouth
The Village Hub, in Stoke, Plymouth
Nudge Community Builders, Plymouth