My Brooches with Benefits range aims to make your little purchase into something powerful, whether it’s something for yourself or a gift for someone else.
Benefits
Each purchase of one of my Brooches with Benefits range includes a £1 donation to a charity. With apologies to my overseas customers, these are currently only UK charities. I mean to publish a record of how much you lovely people raise for each charity on this page in due course.
The current charities your purchases will be supporting are:
- The Woodland Trust, the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity;
- Home-Start UK, helping families with young children through their challenging times; and
- The Trussell Trust, working to end poverty and hunger in the UK.
![Hand holding a crocheted green and beige brooch with an upcycled button](https://i1.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Flower-Brooch-19-1024x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Crocheted peach flower brooches with buttons](https://i1.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BWB-Flower-Brooch-Peach-Fuzz-5-1024x1024.jpeg?ssl=1)
![Fingers holding a crocheted brooch made of two hexagons in blue and brown](https://i0.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hex-Brooch-Blue-Brown-3.jpeg?ssl=1)
![Purple and pink crocheted flower brooches with button centres](https://i1.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Flower-Brooch-23-1024x1024.jpeg?ssl=1)
![Fingers holding a crocheted brooch made of two hexagons in pink and peach](https://i1.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hex-Brooch-Rasp-Peach-1.jpeg?ssl=1)
![Hand-crocheted brooches with buttons from the Little Conkers Brooches with Benefits range](https://i2.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Flower-Brooch-12-1024x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
Materials
The brooches are all made with eco-friendly yarn, but furthermore from the small ball-ends left over from making up my kits and larger commissions, so no new yarn was purchased to make them – super environmentally-friendly!
They may also feature upcycled buttons I have rooted out of my stash – these come from charity shops and old clothing so this is probably not even a second life for many of them, but maybe their third or fourth life!
The brooches are presented on cards I make from waste cardboard – cereal packets, greetings cards and the like.
![Hand-crocheted green brooch from the Little Conkers Brooches with Benefits range](https://i1.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Flower-Brooch-14-1024x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Crocheted Flower Brooch with Upcycled Button](https://i0.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BWB-Flower-Brooch-Terra-3-1024x1024.jpeg?ssl=1)
![Hand-crocheted purple brooch from the Little Conkers Brooches with Benefits Range](https://i1.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Flower-Brooch-5-1024x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Hand-crocheted organic cotton brooch from the Little Conkers Brooches with Benefits range](https://i0.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Flower-Brooch-1-1024x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Green and yellow crocheted flower brooch](https://i2.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/BWB-Flower-Brooch-Lt-Green-3-1024x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
![Hand-crocheted green brooch from the Little Conkers Brooches with Benefits range](https://i0.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Flower-Brooch-15-1024x1024.jpg?ssl=1)
The only part of these brooches specifically purchased and new are the metal brooch backs. These are sewn on, not glued, so have the potential to be re-used many, many times, and if not recycled. See my End-of-Life Information below.
Purchase Brooches with Benefits:
Click on a picture below to see details in the Little Conkers shop.
Supporting The Woodland Trust
Supporting Home-Start UK
Supporting the Trussell Trust
End of Life Information
- All postal packaging, labels, tape & receipt – recycle as paper in your kerbside recycling.
- Presentation card – recycle as paper in your kerbside recycling.
- Organic cotton – safely biodegradable.
- Plastic buttons – reuse again in your own crafts, or donate to a charity shop for reuse.
- Steel brooch back – recycle as metal in your kerbside recycling.
You can also return any brooch from my Brooches with Benefits range to me at the end of its useful life, and I will responsibly recycle/reuse the parts.
![Hand-crocheted purple brooch from the Little Conkers Brooches with Benefits Range](https://i0.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Flower-Brooch-5.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&ssl=1)
![Crocheted brooch made of two hexagons in pink and beige](https://i0.wp.com/littleconkers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hex-Brooch-Beige-Pink-1.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1024&ssl=1)
See my other pages for more eco-friendly brooches and personalised greetings cards with brooches.