SLF’s 5 Year Anniversary
🎉 Celebrating 5 Years of Sustainable Progress! 🎉 On Sunday the 13th of July we were proud to mark a significant milestone — 5 years of the Sustainable Leather Foundation! Since our launch in 2020, we’ve been dedicated to making the leather industry more transparent, responsible, and sustainable. Thanks to our growing global community, we’ve:✅ […]
EUDR June Update
New dates for virtual training sessions on the EUDR Information System Additional dates for virtual training sessions on the EUDR Information System are now available: The Information System of the Deforestation Regulation – European Commission. Please note that the primary audience for these training sessions consists of companies obligated under the EUDR to submit due […]
SLF Auditing Services Website
SLF Auditing Services Website is now live! We are happy to confirm that as part of our development work this year, the new website for SLF Auditing Services Ltd is now up and running. In January 2025 we separated our Certificate Scheme from the Auditing Assurance provision to demonstrate robust governance and to set the […]
EUDR Update – April Update
New Training Dates for EUDR Released In our last EUDR update, we informed you that there was a proposal to add a “no risk” country category to the regulation. Subsequent to our mailing, this along with some other amendments was taken off the agenda in order to ensure that the implementation delay was able to […]
Did You Know? At SLF we believe in maximising benefit and minimising duplication of cost and effort.
That’s why, right from our inception in 2020, we built in equivalency to our innovative Transparency Dashboard™.
Audit Certification Process: The 3 Pillar Approach
SLF’s Triple Pillar Approach to supporting a sustainable leather industry.
SLF at APLF Hong Kong 2025
Our round up of this year’s APLF The ILM Leather Symposium on Tuesday 11th March was a great kick off to the week in Hong Kong. SLF’s presentation on strategic guidance for the implementation of EUDR was very well received by the delegates, with some excellent feedback about “how we took a complicated topic and […]
SLF Seminar at APLF Hong Kong
Join us on Thursday 13th March from 10.00 to 11.00 am for our Seminar on “Leather and the Consumer: How to communicate the sustainable value of leather”. This free to attend seminar will take place on the Main Stage, Hall 3G, HKCEC
SLF – Governed with Integrity
Here at SLF, we understand the importance of integrity within our scope of work on behalf of the leather industry. That’s why we have a robust system of policies and procedures to guide the way in which we work, from standard setting to audit delivery and certification, to ensure that we uphold exemplary governance. In 2024, SLF underwent an external third party review of all our standards and benchmarks, governance systems, procedures and guidance notes, following which the SLF Environmental, Social and Governance Standards became the first leather specific Standards to be published on the ITC Global Standards Map. This year will see our auditing division, SLF Auditing Services Ltd, further our commitment by undertaking UKAS accreditation as a certification body. We are pleased to announce that we have appointed Stuart Cranfield to manage our accreditation process with us and look forward to strengthening our ability to continue to meet industry and regulatory requirements.
How our Transparency Dashboard Supports Improvement
The Sustainable Leather Foundation (SLF) developed the SLF Transparency Dashboard™ to address key challenges in the leather industry and to promote transparency, inclusivity, and progress in meeting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. Through extensive engagement with stakeholders, SLF identified recurring issues that led to this innovative solution, aiming to support sustainable practices and industry-wide alignment.