Dress for Success relies on clothing donations -they are the life-blood of our organisation. Please help us help other women by organising a suit drive at your place of work.
Suit drives
Suit drives happen when professional women within a company get together to raise awareness of our work and encourage their colleagues to donate their unwanted clothes and accessories to Dress for Success. Each item of donated clothing helps another woman succeed at her job interview.
Organise a suit drive in four easy steps:
- Agree a particular day or week to hold your suit drive
- Tell your colleagues about it, using our Dress for Success suit drive poster to raise awareness of the event
- Designate a room or space in the office where people can drop off their clothes, and organise a hanging rail and some boxes to store the clothes
- After the suit drive, package up the donations and deliver them to Dress for Success.
Because all clothes are passed directly on to our clients, all donations should be clean, in good condition and ready to wear. For more information on how to organsie a suit drive, and the kind of clothes and accessories we need, click here.
For our Dress for Success suit drive poster, click here.
The following companies ran suit drives for Dress for Success in the past year:
Allen & Overy
Alliance Bernstein
Anne Corder Recruitment
AON
AXA Investment Managers
Baker&McKenzie LLP
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of New York Mellon
Barbican Centre
Barclays
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
BG Group
Black Rock
Blackstone
BP International
Brewin Dolphin
Brooklyn Brothers PR
CA Technologies
Capital Group Investment Company
CBRE Ltd.
Charles Russell
Citi Group
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK
Davis Polk
Deloitte
Devonshire Solicitors
DTCC London
DVB Bank SE
Electoral Commission
Ernst & Young
Eversheds
Fidelity Worldwide Investment
Financial Mail Women's Network
Ford Credit
Freddy Products Ltd.
FTI Consulting
GE Capital
GE Healthcare
GE Oil&Gas
GlaxoSmithKline
Goldman Sachs
GSK
GVA
HM Courts & Tribunals Service
Ithaca Partners
Junior League
Kings School
Kingsley Napley LLP
Lexis Nexis
Linklaters LLP
Liz Bolt Associates
Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP
McKinsey&Co.
Mercer
National Grid
Nationwide
Nielsen
Norton Rose
Olswang LLP
Pinsent Masons LLP
Portland
PricewaterhouseCoopers
QEB
RBC Capital Markets
Retail Trust
Ruby UK
Selfridges
Shell Women's Network
Simmons&Simmons
SKM
Slaughter&May
State Street
Symantec
Taylor Wessing
Thomson Reuters
Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions
Verizon
White & Case
WILD
Women in Mining (UK)
I was treated as a lady and not just someone trying on clothes in a shop. I am very
grateful for what you have done for me.
