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Over thirty five years ago Trevor Palmer qualified from the Cordwainers Technical College, London, and embarked on an exciting career learning all aspects of the leather goods trade. Overseas work advising companies from as far a field as Outer Mongolia to Trinidad created an affinity with a variety of people and cultures. Having worked with high volume manufacturers in the Far East and with organisations in some of the most under developed parts of the world, Trevor felt that the powers of big business and commercial forces were doing little to improve the working environment, not only for the labour directly involved in manufacturing the leather goods but for those unfortunate enough to reside and work the land in the vicinities of the tanneries. This is due to the ever-increasing need to produce competitive leather which prohibits the tanneries from using safe treatments and from investing in efficient effluent systems to protect the environment and those employed in the processing.