Catalytic Clothing Updated 19 April 2010 Catalytic Clothing is the new project of the Helen Storey Foundation. A full statement on the progress of the project will be posted here the first week of July.Conceived in February 2008 with Professor Tony Ryan of the University of Sheffield, this project sets out to use the surfaces of clothing to purify air. Working at nanoscale, the art of Catalytic Clothing will uniquely lead the science. The project will investigate how clothing technology can be used to engage the public in the science behind the impact that pollution has on our health. This is a major new project and has been awarded funding from ESPRC with the University of Sheffield, other new partners include, Transport for London, GLA and Ecover. Five other UK Universities are also partners and supporters of the project. 
Wonderland Updated 25 May 2010 Wonderland, a collaboration between Helen Storey MBE, Professor of Fashion and Science at London College of Fashion and Co Director of the Centre for Fashion Science and scientist Professor Tony Ryan OBE, was shortlisted for Conde Nast Traveller's Innovation & Design Awards 2010.
The awards are currently in their fourth year and celebrate design excellence in 10 categories - from sustainability to transport. The panel of judges includes Sir Nicolas Serota and Brent Hoberman who compiled the shortlist for each category.
Wonderland was launched in January 2008 and explored the power of shared ideas, where fashion and science collide. It was born out of a collaboration between artist and designer Helen Storey MBE and scientist Professor Tony Ryan OBE and attempted to shine a light on the wider and much greater issues of sustainability and ethical living. Primitive Streak Updated 19 April 2010 Primitive Streak was awarded extension funding from the Wellcome Trust in January 2010. The Project originally received a Sciart Award from the Trust in 1997. Helen and Kate Storey will once more collaborate on three new pieces, to add to the existing collection, and to enable further public engagement and enjoyment. The new pieces will elucidate the beauty and biology of the development of the human lung, as part of a programme of work called Breath. This work will be shown in London and Sheffield from late 2010 onwards.
Free Radicals Updated 10 May 2010 ‘'Free Radicals'’ is a growing group of academics currently working alongside experienced ‘others’, intent on cracking key world problems. The Helen Storey Foundation is a founder member of this group which is currently sponsored by NESTA.
So with deliberate, and brave collision of these diversely disciplined minds, Free Radicals have begun to broker ideas and attempt to find solutions; in the first instance on the theme of the democratisation of water.
Water Amnesty Updated April 2010 Water Amnesty has been short listed for The Green Gown Awards in the Social Responsibility category. The judges commented that this was an innovative application with strong political debate. www.eauc.org.uk.For further information www.wearefreeradicals.co.uk Water Amnesty iApp 
Carry out your own personal Water Amnesty, learn how much water you use each week and see how easy savings could be. Designed by DED Associates for The Free Radicals Water Amnesty Project. Available online end September 2009. For more information contact us Walking for Kevin 2009/10 Updated 17th May 2010
In Summer 2009 Caroline and Helen pledged to walk to raise £7500 to build a pump for One Water in Africa.
Helen and Caroline are proud to annouce that as a result of their efforts, and all those who walked with them last Summer that a PlayPump is currently underway in Malawi in a school called
Molefe F.P. School in the Thyolo district. There are 816 boys, 747 girls and 16 teachers, and the PlayPump will also service 7300 villagers in the community!
All the hard fundraising efforts will bring clean water to over 8879 people.
Helen Storey awarded MBE in Queen's Birthday Honours Posted 4th September 2009 The Helen Storey Foundation is proud to announce that Helen Storey has been made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queens birthday honours. This is for services to the arts. Helen will be presented with the award on October 20th 2009.Press enquiries should be directed to Rebecca Munro, Press Officer: London College of Fashion, 20 John Prince's Street, London W1G 0BJ, Tel: +44 (0)207 514 2998 For further information please contact info@helenstoreyfoundation.org A new role for Helen Storey Posted 4th September 2009 Helen Storey has been appointed Co-Director of the Centre for Fashion Science at London College of Fashion and made Professor of Fashion Science as of March 2009. Her work with HSF continues as before.
For more information on Helen Storey and the work of the Foundation Updated April 2010 Reunited on Radio 4’s Material World - Helen Storey and Tony Ryan return to the programme that drew them together. Listen again to their interviews here Wonderland Education Website - visit http://www.wonderland-sheffield.co.uk/education/index.html to see Helen Storey Foundation’s Wonderland education pages Blast from the Past - see an exclusive selection of Chris Moore’s shots of the best of Helen’s fashion collections from 1990 onwards. See Fashion section For downloadable options contact the Library at Catwalking: Catwalk@ChrisMoore.co.uk
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