Testimonials __________________________________________________________________________ "....raspberry clutch bag arrived really quickly, it was beautifully packed and is absolutely perfect. As well as being a lovely bag it complements my mother of the bride outfit and shoes exactly and is absolutely fabulous!  I should also like to take the opportunity to thank you for the friendly and helpful service....." Linda (Surrey) April 2009   "Just to let you know I received my brown clutch with orange buckle yesterday and I am thrilled with it.  It's gorgeous.  Thank you so much." Claire (Dundee) March 2009   "Received and love it! I logged onto recycle now to buy some recycle bins for the garage.. which I didn't find and ended up treating myself to one of your bags!  Oops!" S (West Yorkshire) "The new range is gorgeous and I really like the distressed cherry red" Nancy (London) "I got my green buckle clutch on Tuesday that I ordered to go with my 60's wedding dress and green shoes for the registry bit of our wedding, I love it thank you so much! Hannah (London)   "The other bag was purchased by my friend, but for someone else! It arrived today... it is amazing!" Victoria (Northern Ireland)   "I LOVE your clutch bags! " Kristin   "Got the bag a couple of days ago and it is just gorgeous" Cathy (Australia)   "I have received the bag. It is beautiful, and thanks for the swift postage" Sarah (Middlesbrough)

About Us

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A love of beautiful design, and her mothers influence from an early age to be eco aware led to Nicola Prodormou forming Use UK in 2005. Her aim was to make Eco-friendly home and fashion accessories more desirable to the design conscious and so encourage environmental awareness in design.

As environmental awareness grew, so Use UK grew and there was a need to bring a partner on board, the ideal person was her mother Val.

“At Use UK we love beautiful things as much as we love being eco, so we make sure that being eco-friendly doesn't mean compromising on style”.

Our signature product was a range of lampshades, handmade to the highest quality from 100% recycled cardboard and printed with limited edition patterns.

“We love Use UK’s lampshades, they knock spots off the boring beige ones on the high street”….Time Out

Always on the look out for eco materials to create beautiful accessories, we then went on to make cushions using fabrics from sample books.

From there our next find was leather remnants from the furniture industry, destined for landfill but rescued to make gorgeous clutch bags with vintage buckles and silk linings.

More bag designs followed and the bags have become so desirable that the limited amount of 'eco' leather we could source was just not enough to meet demand. We have had more and more enquiries for different colours and styles of bags and to satisfy demand we have decided to launch I Love Clutch Bags featuring a range of bags made from leather bought from a UK supplier who promotes sustainable and appropriate environmental business practices within the leather industry and follows guidelines set out by the Carbon Trust.

All bags are still individually designed and hand made in our eco run workshop in South East England where every effort is made to recycle, use recycled, reuse, reduce waste and reduce emissions. Wherever possible our materials are bought in the UK or fair trade. (vegetable ivory doves).

The new range along with the 'eco' bags can be viewed on this site and the 'eco' bags can also be viewed at Use UK . We have also introduced a bespoke bag making service, the details of which can be viewed

We are very proud of our customer service and strive to make it the best possible and we welcome any comments or suggestions for improvement.




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