Yorkshire Textiles was set up as a not-for-profit initiative, working across the Leeds City Region. It seeks to promote growth and employment in the high quality end of the Yorkshire textile industry. The UK textiles sector is worth £9bn, with export and domestic growth continuing to expand. A large proportion of the predicted 20,000 new jobs nationwide which could be created in the near future are likely to be based in Yorkshire, because of its heritage, infrastructure and long established skills base.. Yorkshire Textiles was set up in 2009 by Leeds Fashion Works and led by Suzy Shepherd, a fashion, retail and marketing adviser and university governor Carolyn Lord, a solicitor who is known as a project facilitator and broker of ideas and relationships. It is a broad and inclusive alliance of people and organisations committed to increasing the international prominence and economic growth of the textiles Industry and associated fashion, design and technology businesses in Yor