Give Your Best is a UK based CIC tackling clothing poverty while advancing circular fashion. We provide the first online platform where displaced women and gender-diverse people, including those seeking asylum and refugees, can shop donated clothing for free, with dignity and choice. Founded in 2020 during the COVID19 pandemic, Give Your Best began with a single call for help on Instagram and has since grown into a national movement. To date, we’ve processed over 70,000 clothing items, supported thousands of people across the UK, and built a vibrant community of hundreds of volunteers. We serve our community in 2 main ways: via our online donation platform the world’s first online wardrobe where people experiencing clothing poverty can choose clothing that has been donated, as if shopping online, but entirely free and the first pay it forward store, where each item sold directly funds someone in our community to shop in the same store entirely for free. In the financial year covered by this report, we made significant progress in both reach and innovation: Community impact: We welcomed 1,678 new community members, distributed 10,900 clothing items via our online platform including 1,080 for children, and provided £7,600 worth of free in-store shopping to nearly 500 people. Environmental impact: Our circular model diverted approximately 2,670 kg of clothing from landfill, saving an estimated 16,020 kg of CO2 emissions, and redistributed 1,670 items donated by brand partners. Employment and empowerment: We provided employment for two refugee women through our programmes and hosted 11 corporate volunteer days. Wider community partnerships: We engaged 12 fashion partners, 8 corporate supporters, and deployed 15 Bestie Bins to facilitate office-based donations. This year also marked the launch of two milestone initiatives: Give Your Best Store, our social resale shop, which enables public donations and brand partner overstock to be resold to raise sustainable income for our work while also enabling our community to shop in the same store for free. GYB Repair, piloted with the support of ReLondon, codesigned and run by refugee seamstresses, providing repairs to the general public and our brand partners, as well as upcyling to reduce any waste produced in store. Through clothing redistribution, advocacy, and community-building, Give Your Best continues to create solutions that address both social inequality and environmental waste, offering dignity, autonomy and belonging to those who need it most.

Our stakeholders are: - Shoppers (defined as people registered to shop clothes for free): this stakeholder demographic includes primarily women and children from refugee background, seeking asylum, victims of trafficking or domestic violence, as well as a small proportion of other marginalised communities experiencing clothing poverty. We have several women from the community we support who are part of the core Give Your Best team of volunteers and employees, as well as sit in our Board of Directors. They have been shopping with us since we launched and help us shape the organisation and our services. We do regular meetings with them and they have constant input into our processes. - Donors (anyone submitting clothes for donation via our online platform or shop): we provide regular opportunities for feedback including an online form and address any issues or suggestions to the best of our ability and as funding allows in the case of improvements to our donation platform. - Fundraising donors (anyone who has donated funds for our running costs): we regularly report on our social media channels and website how we’re using funds and we are transparent in any fundraising campaigns. - Volunteers: we have weekly meetings with the various teams within the organisation to discuss operations, improve services, solve problems, share ideas, etc. - Grant funders: we have received several grants and report to grant makers as required. - Business partners: are brands or businesses which collaborate with us to redirect any unsold stock or donated clothes into communities in need and we offer bespoke services after consultation as well as impact reporting in some instances.

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