Well hello there pants lovers! As the summer is here we want to celebrate with a new competition for you to meet, and party with, the lovely people who make our gorgeous pants!

To support our mission to rid the world of bad pants, we want you to get creative, inspiring and liberate the power in your pants to enter our competition for “BEST PHOTO IN YOUR PANTS!”

We’ll be running the c0mpetition through facebook where photos can be uploaded and voted on to choose the winner (announced in October 2008). For a photo to be eligible for the competition, it has to meet the following simple criteria:

1. Should be legal: we can’t promote breaking the law now can we?!
2. Should represent our mission to rid the world of bad pants and be promoting good pants (fairtrade and organic pants).
3. Should have the particiPANT’s email sent to info@pantstopoverty.com

Ideally we’d love you to be in a pair of our spectacular pants¦ but we can’t force them onto you. You know you can buy great pants, here though obviously!

The tribal farmers we’ll be partying with want to pant with you as they are now able to sell fairtrade, organic cotton at a fair price, and it’s changed their lives! Come join them, and they might just change yours!

Go on! Get panting and start ridding the world of bad pants!

To join our facebook group go to: http://www.facebook.com/inbox/#/group.php?gid=2390778236

YES!! We did it! We set the world record for the most people ever gathered in their pants!! 106!

We went to the Isle of White Festival with Oxfam to support them with their inspirationally named campaign “what gets your knickers in a twist!?”… so we shared their tent and set a new world record… nice one.

Just the night before, the wombats got their hands on some good pants with the first glimpse of the new festival of colours range… launching at Glastonbury.. where we’ll be with Oxfam again and we reckon we’ll destroy the world record this time… if you’re coming to glasto.. remember to come find us at the Oxfam tent in your good pants!!! time tbc just yet!

OK, so we might not have set the world record but when a healthy bunch of pant lovers mobilized in Birmingham, we smashed our own records! A deluge of rain might have kept people away but a deluge of press came along to cheer us through!

To mark ten years since 70,000 people formed a human chain around the city sparking a new phase in fighting poverty, we launched our new range of purely natural pants in Birmingham with our first Pant flash there. The weather, so often our friend til now, was against us but amazingly, thanks to the stunt and through the media, we managed to reach over 3.5 million people!! We annihilated our previous media record!!

We all met, bright and early in the pub and then bounced into the same building whee the G8 met ten years ago! After the necessary panting around and being surrounded by banks of media, we then returned to the walkabout pub and let the day gradually fade away! Amazing!

A massive thankyou to all who came along and had the “best way to spend a Saturday ever!”. We’ll be doing it all again soon and this time we will set the record!! If you want to get involved, contact us through the web form!!

SO! We’re now off to the festivals to spice things up beautifully! Hope you’ll see us there! Much more coming your way soon!

Join us on May 17th for the wildest flash mob and help us break a world record!

In May 1998, 70,000 people formed a human chain in Birmingham to demand that the G8 drop the debt, kickstarting the Make Poverty History movement.
Ten years on, Pants to Poverty celebrates the leaps & bounds of the Fair Trade movement and stages a pantathlon to showcase consumer power… in all its glory! And in case you wondered what a Pantathlon was, this is how it works.

Our condom pocket pants don’t do enhancement but they do go the extra length.

Not only do they allow you to stash life-saving devices in a place close to hand, but they are also helping to raise funds to fight HIV/AIDS.
This might explain why they are so federating, drawing an all-vibrant and multicultural crowd coming from the most eclectic websites: fashion sites, fair trade sites, South African sites, Swedish good-living sites, fit guys sites, straight fit guys sites (yeah right), sex carnival websites, and others I wouldn’t want to type because I get lost in the number of Xs in them.

Though most readers are informed enough about the content of the pocket (a fairly traded condom brought by our friends at French Letter), it is also worth comforting their feeling of good-doing by reminding them that for each pair bought, £1 goes to Treatment Action Campaign. TAC are South Africa’s pioneering movement for equal access to information and treatment, in a country where poverty and AIDS are closely linked. The partnership between TAC and Pants to Poverty is good news, so why not learn all about it from… The South Africa Good News!