Inside the Ilan Style Fellowship

When we say your cup gives back, this is what we mean. The Ilan Style Fellowship is our partnership with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, AIATSIS, and it exists to keep Torres Strait Islander language and culture strong.

Reciprocity in action

Ilan Style was built with a commitment to family, culture and the continuation of Torres Strait Islander language. A portion of what we earn from tea flows into the Fellowship.

We call it reciprocity in action.

“When you hold our tea in your hands, you place meaningful change in ours.”

What it supports

The Fellowship supports Torres Strait Islander people to work with language, cultural knowledge and creative practice, held within the national collections and expertise at AIATSIS.

Language lives in many forms, in records and dictionaries, in teaching, and in song, and the Fellowship helps carry it forward in all of them.

Why it matters

Language is culture in living form. Every word kept and passed on is a thread held between generations.

Supporting that work is not a marketing add-on for us. It is the reason the business exists.

How you are part of it

Every purchase, every gift and every wholesale order helps fund this work. As the Ilan Style Tea Community grows, so does our capacity to invest.

Thank you for being part of it.

Maiem.
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