We Make Good

Our new linen cushion collection is handmade in our Dublin studi by textile workers who've rebuilt their lives in Ireland after forced migration. Skills carried from Afghanistan, Ukraine, and beyond, made into something new.

As our Textile Studio Manager Sarah Verdon puts it: "Irish patchwork has always told stories of survival, love, and resistance."
These cushions are part of that tradition.

Available to pre-order now from our studio in Dublin 1.
Learn more at wemakegood.ie/collections/linencushions

Keep your eyes peeled, Ireland!

Last week was the Great Big All-Ireland Hedgehog Count but don't worry if you missed it, the survey is open all year round! If you spot one in your garden, park or green space at dusk and dawn make sure to log it.

Hedgehogs are a sign of a healthy ecosystem but they are now considered Near Threatened across Europe. Habitat loss, tidier gardens, pesticides and road traffic have all taken a toll, and urban gardens are increasingly their last refuge. Your sightings and small changes at home really do matter.

How to help:

Leave a gap in your fence so they can roam
Leave a wild corner, log pile or compost heap for nesting
Skip the slug pellets and pesticides
Check before mowing or strimming
Leave fresh water out
Add a ramp to any ponds
Drive carefully at dusk and dawn
Log your sighting: records.biodiversityireland.ie/record/hedgehog-survey

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Clothes deserve longer lives. And we have a plan.

In 2027 we're launching Professional Repair & Alterations workshops and training courses — and we want to build them around you.

Take our 5-minute survey (link below) and help shape what we create. Everyone who completes it can enter a draw for a €75 We Make Good voucher.
We are hoping for 100 respondents. Please share with your network!

Take five minutes. Tell us what matters to you.

👉https://survey.sogolytics.com/r/lmOtph

Eid Mubarak!

To all our staff and community members celebrating today - wishing you and your loved ones a joyful, peaceful, and blessed Eid. May this special sunny day bring you happiness, togetherness, and beautiful memories.

At We Make Good, we are so grateful for the incredible people who make up our staff and community.

Eid Mubarak to all!

Meet Whorly, the little Irish snail up against fascism.

Rules exist to keep everyone safe and to keep things fair. Without them, the powerful can do whatever they like.

Deregulation is the removal of these rules so the powerful can make more money and take more control. This is a central feature of fascism.

Whorl snails are protected by EU regulations; rules that protect vulnerable things: creatures, ecosystems, communities. They are a vital indicator species for an entire ecosystem.

Right now, Trump's wants to build a ballroom in Clare. Whorly lives on the land. EU rules say she must be protected. The resort wants to ignore responsibilty and says that it is "beyond their control." Link below.

This is what deregulation actually looks like. Not a big dramatic announcement, just the attempted quiet removal or watering down of the rules that protect us. In planning documents, rewording, and appeals.

We need to teach our children the importance of regulations. We need to remind ourselves. And we need to advocate for the rules that protect our most vulnerable species and communities.

Whorly is handmade in our textile studio in Dublin 1 by people rebuilding their lives after forced migration, addiction, time in prison, or living with a disability.

What You Can Do:
Contact Friends of the Irish Environment to get involved in actions such as
- Push for habitat and drainage plans related to the Doonbeg resort to be made public before any work begins.
- Resort upgrade plans have been legally challenged. You can track these and submit your own comments at the An Bord Pleanála website.
- =Backing conservation efforts for West Clare's peatlands and wetlands directly helps the species.
- Court orders already restrict what can be built along this coastline. Learn more

Support Irish-made toys: locally made, Dublin-born, and inspired by Irish landscape, society, and politics all at once.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/04/24/beyond-our-control-to-restore-fortunes-of-protected-snail-trump-doonbeg-operator-says/

Justice for Yves Sakila! Thursday · 1pm · The Dáil

We are joining the protest organised by the Congolese community in Ireland, called in response to the heartbreaking murder of Yves Sakila, a Congolese man raised in Ireland.

Our hearts go out to Yves' family and loved ones, in Ireland and around the world. We stand in solidarity with our Congolese, African, Black, Irish, racialised and migrant communities who are grieving, and who are scared and angry, and rightly so.

We also cannot ignore the context surrounding Yves' death. Just days before, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was recorded on a Fianna Fáil canvass in the Dublin Central bye-election making these remarks about immigration:
"It's the Africans I worry about."
"We can't be taking in people from the Congo and all these places."

Words like these, spoken by those in positions of power and influence, do real harm. They create a climate where racism is normalised and where violence against people from our communities becomes more likely. We believe there is a direct line between this kind of language and what happened to Yves.

Please join us on Thursday if you can. This protest matters.

Sustainability isn't a new invention. We just stopped practising it.

For most of human history, we knew the deal: take what you need, then wait.

It was built into everything, the fallow field, the fish left to breed, the timber left to grow. Recovery time wasn't optional. It was just part of how things worked.

Then industrialisation told us we could skip that part.

And we believed it.

Trend cycles collapsed from years to weeks. Clothes worn once and binned. Cotton fields worked without pause. Oil pulled from the ground to feed a demand nobody could ever satisfy.

The cost for restoration didn't disappear though.. It got redirected: to people downstream, to land stripped bare, to a future running short on options.

Our ancestors weren't wiser or more virtuous than us. They just lived close enough to the consequences that ignoring them was never really an option.

And now, neither can we. We’re commited to:

- Buy secondhand
- Upcycle before you discard
- Pay the real price before we're forced to
- Support local and ethical makers
- Support social enterprises tackling our biggest issues

Ooh we're so excited to share: Our sparkly new 2026 wholesale catalogue is live!
New toys. New colourways. New luxury cushion collections, all handmade in Dublin with purpose.

Think We Make Good should be in your local gift shop?
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When things feel uncertain, the people around us can become the steady ground we need.

In our work, we see how quickly someone’s sense of power erodes when they’re isolated, and how much shifts when they’re not.

Belonging isn’t abstract. It’s practical.
It’s someone bringing dinner when you’re exhausted.
It’s a shared walk, a pint, a hug.
It’s knowing you’re not facing things alone.

As a social enterprise working with people rebuilding after trauma, addiction, displacement and loss, strengthening those support structures is central to what we do.

The National Community Safety Survey is one small way to reflect on what safety and belonging look like where you live. If this feels relevant, we’d encourage you to take part. Link here: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-justice-home-affairs-and-migration/consultations/national-strategy-for-improving-community-safety-online-survey/