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GLAD RAGS
We are delighted to receive funding from the Big Lottery, Awards for All, for an innovative project called Glad Rags.
Glad Rags has been developed as a response to a problem for women when they come out of custody. If women are referred to GOING HOME the existing staff will make a referral to the Glad Rags scheme to offer support for women who need help with suitable clothing on release.
Glad Rags will enable women to identify clothing through a `virtual wardrobe' and be given clothing for specific purposes - e.g. job interviews.
Glad Rags will have a strong emphasis on skills-development providing opportunities for women to develop or enhance skills through:
Mini Workshops:
- Developing a self-help group (basic business principles of marketing, communication, finance, running and sustaining a group)
- Sewing skills
- Dressing appropriately for meetings and interviews
- Accessorising on a budget (extending a limited wardrobe)
- Photography to provide pictures of a virtual wardrobe' on the GOING HOME Website
The project funding will provide basic clothing items plus equipment such as sewing-machine, a mannequin, camera, clothes-rail, vacuum bags and coat-hangers. Other costs will include budgets for Group Days, publicity and web-site costs. In addition, training for work-shops will be required to enable women to gain the skills to develop, learn, grow and sustain a self-help group.
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