On Saturday 20th January 2018 the first workshop of the fashion futures programme got underway at New City College Hackney. It was a wet, windy day but this failed to
Volunteering Scheme
The Volunteering Scheme gives companies and individuals the opportunity to share their skills, time, and insight with creative young Londoners.
We foster a culture of ‘giving back.’ Many members of the Scheme are FAD alumni who know first hand what an impact volunteer support can make.
OPPORTUNITY
We are now recruiting volunteers for the 2018 Fashion Futures Saturday workshops. Calling fashion graduates, professionals and retirees – if you have design, construction or pattern cutting skills we’d love to hear from you!
For more information please email maria@fad.org.uk
``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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