As a member of our Volunteering Scheme Angela mentors not one but two young people from the FAD INTO Fashion programme. Industry mentors are pivotal in helping our beneficiaries achieve
Volunteering
Our Volunteering Scheme offers young people the opportunity to gain a unique insight into the realities of the fashion industry, and enables companies and individuals to invest their time in our future fashion professionals.
There’s so many opportunities you or your company to give back to community with FAD. Check out of SUPPORT tab to see how you could get involved.
Student
TESTIMONIALS
``Volunteering helps me go away and be more motivated and focused in my own work. If I’m helping them I need to show that I’m really doing something myself. It’s great to give back to a project that really had an impact on me.``
Delores
Menswear Designer and FAD Volunteer
“I loved being involved in the FAD judging panel, the level of work and dedication was incredible. The students demonstrated a great amount of creativity and the beginnings of a real understanding of the fashion industry, that FAD have nurtured brilliantly.”
Vanessa Spence
Womenswear Design Director Asos
``It is a chance to teach somebody what I love and thoroughly enjoy doing. I enjoy being with the young people, I love their ideas, their interest, their creativity. I work as a pattern cutter and we need more pattern cutters to come to the industry, it is great to teach the next generation.``
Joanna Hewitt
Senior Pattern Cutter, Toast
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