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:
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Allen & Overy
Alliance Bernstein
American Express
Aston & Hayes
AXA Investment Managers
Bank of New York Mellon
Barbican Centre
Barclays Capital
Barclays Group Women’s Initiative Network
Belron International Ltd
Bio Tech Babes
BNY Mellon
Boston Consulting Group
BT
Capco
Change of Heart
Chime Communications
Chubb
Citi
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Collin Harris PR
Credit Suisse
Deutche Bank
Diageo
Dtcc
Ernst and Young
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Eskimo PR
Facts International
Fidelity Worldwide Investment
Field Fisher Waterhouse
Financial Mail on Sunday
Ford
Gordon Dadds
HSBC
HSBC, GTB Central
ICAP
Ithaca Partners
Jersey Simon
Junior League
Lexis Nexis
Matches Fashion
Mayer Brown LLP
Morrison Foerster
Mphasis
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Olswang
Oxford Brookes
Paul Hastings
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Rare Communications
RBS Compass
RCM
Reed & Mackay
Reed Smith
Sanofi-Aventis
Scarlett Monroe
Shell International Limited
Slaughter & May
Southwark Council
Standard & Poor’s
T.M.Lewin
Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited
The Boston Consulting Group
The Brokerage
The Hampstead Women's Club
The Outnet
The Style Alchemist
Thomson Reuters
Travers Smith LLP
Verizon Business
Virgin Active Health Clubs
White & Case
All the staff were very helpful, from deciding on an outfit to speaking to someone about the interview itself. The whole experience has made me feel much more confident
Charlotte