http://www.yewclothing.com Yew Clothing is a sports and outdoor clothing company that was started to make ethically sourced clothes from environmentally friendly and sustainable materials, like recycled polyester. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:09:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to the success of our free UK delivery offer in February, we've decided to offer it for all UK orders, all the time. http://www.yewclothing.com/free-delivery/ 42 Floors of running can have a strange effect on you. For me, it involved crawling around on all fours, unable to talk.  Whilst on the floor (of the top floor in Tower42), the one thing I noticed was the building going up next door that was even taller than ... http://www.yewclothing.com/vertical-rush/ We've donated some of our clothes for a charity auction run by Trail Magazine. You can see their auction on ebay here. All proceeds from the auction will go to Community Action Nepal to help build a much-needed rescue shelter at 4750m in the remote Himalayan valley of Gokyo. This will help ... http://www.yewclothing.com/charity-auction/ It's been a while since I've done something silly for charity, so here's this year's. A friend and I have decided to run up 42 floors to the top of Tower 42 in London as part of an event organised by Shelter. It's a short challenge - let's hope it ... http://www.yewclothing.com/42-floors-920-steps/ We've decided to keep our pricing the same for the time being and we're going to swallow the VAT rate increase. http://www.yewclothing.com/no-vat-increase/ Yew Clothing is delighted to announce that it has joined 1% For the Planet.  1% For the Planet is a non-profit organisation whose members are businesses from all over the world. The common commitment of each member is to donate 1% of their sales to environmental causes. Some people would ... http://www.yewclothing.com/1-for-all-of-us/ We have always thought that we should really get certain things right from the start.  Well, one thing we didn't make a decision on was what charities we were going to support. To be fair, we had an idea - you can see some of the causes we have already ... http://www.yewclothing.com/start-as-you-mean-to-go-on/ For those of you that think Switzerland is just full of uptight bankers and other financiers, try spending an evening at Freestyle - an extreme sports festival on the lake in Zurich, and nestled up by the headquarters of several major insurance companies.  Freestyle is all about skateboarding, free skiing ... http://www.yewclothing.com/freestyle-switzerland/ I've just spent the last few days working out how to use Wildfire to run a competition for free Ski Show tickets online. It should be super simple, but as with everything, it just takes a bit more attention to detail than you hoped for. Anyway, finally managed to get ... http://www.yewclothing.com/ski-show-competition/ Yew will be exhibiting at this year's Metro Ski and Snowboard Show at London Olympia.  The show's on from 21 to 25 October and is going to be an absolute blast. Check out the show's website at http://www.metrosnow.co.uk/index.php?id=24.  We'll have our clothes, of course, but we'll also have some special friends ... http://www.yewclothing.com/ski-snowboard-show/