This campaign is led by award-winning upholsterer Delyth Fetherston-Dilke and is strongly supported by a wide community of upholsterers across the UK. Formerly a film lawyer for Warner Bros., Delyth now serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Master Upholsterers and Soft Furnishers (AMUSF).

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The campaign began in 2022 with an open letter to the Government, placed on instagram and responded to in just 2 weeks by 1000 upholsterers concerned about the side effects of working with these chemicals. One year on those 1000 upholsterers grew to 5793 upholsterers writing to the Government responding to its consultation on the 1988 Furniture and Furnishings Fire Regulations. There is widespread concern across the trade.

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Delyth has since authored an article for the Government’s Clean Air website and contributed to a new UK scientific consensus paper examining how fire safety can be reconciled with the environmental and health impacts of flame-retardant chemicals.

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This website has been built not by Delyth, but by a group of upholsterers who support fire safety by design rather than through the use of toxic chemicals, and who wish to see a move towards the European model of safety in the home.