The Global Footwear Future Coalition is a not-for-profit organisation driving collaborative action to reshape the global footwear industry.

Founded to break down silos and build opportunities across brands, designers, manufacturers, academia, and policymakers, we provide a safe, pre-competitive space for the industry to think, learn, and act.

Join us on this journey to address systemic challenges and create future opportunities for the footwear industry.

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The GFFC symposium held at Havas London in October 2024
GFFC Symposium launch at Havas, London, October 2024

Our vision

Our vision is to be the global, holistic community of practice, reshaping the future of footwear. We are building a community that interrogates why, what, how and where to influence footwear futures.

We bring together a network of experts across footwear and related industries to facilitate and share new perspectives and innovation across the industry, fostering new alliances and initiatives.

We are engaging with industry stakeholders to deliver high-priority collaborative research, thought leadership and other industry capabilities.

News and updates

The GFFC at Town Hall by Bottaccio

We are pleased to announce the new partnership between Global Footwear Future Coalition and Town Hall by Bottaccio.

GFFC launched off the back of one idea: that the questions facing footwear today are bigger than any one organisation. They cut across brands, manufacturing, education, technology, sustainability and culture. Making progress requires a broader conversation.

That’s why we’re excited to be partnering with Town Hall.

Located in King’s Cross, Town Hall is a restored civic landmark and living room for London’s innovators, thinkers and change-makers. Built around a year-round programme of culture, ideas and industry dialogue, with a genuine belief in the power of cross-disciplinary exchange, it is exactly the kind of space where GFFC’s work belongs.

Town Hall will become a focal point for our convening activity, supporting a growing programme of roundtables, workshops and industry discussions.

We’re looking forward to what we can build together.

Global Footwear Future Coalition and Town Hall by Bottaccio.

What People Are Saying

“We fully support the GFFC’s crucial mission to drive a redesign of the footwear industry. With a large part of the 330 million shoes bought in the UK each year ending in landfill, there is an urgent need to upskill designers in relevant green design skills and push systemic changes that allow circular business models to become the norm.

We wish the GFFC the best of luck for the Symposium and look forward to engaging in conversations with some of the sector’s global leaders.”

– Minnie Moll, Chief Executive of the Design Council



“The footwear industry today faces both untold challenges, and untold opportunities. The Global Footwear Future Coalition will play a vital role in helping the industry to convert the former into the latter – and I’m looking forward to sharing insights at the launch symposium.”

– Jen Keane, Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Synthesis

“The recent creation of the Global Footwear Future Coalition needs support so we bring together a fragmented but important industry”

– Daniel Rubin, Chair Dune in Drapers online, February 2025