Give Your Best

🎄Christmas is a perfect time to give back, so hire one of our Bestie Bins for your workplace! ♻️These bins are a wonderfully convenient way to donate pre-loved clothing, and will help change someone’s life. 🤝 If you’re a business and want to hire one DM us or email us on partnerships@giveyourbest.uk or share with someone who might be interested! 💕 For information on how to donate visit our website www.giveyourbest.uk #GiveYourBest #BestieBin #DonateWithHeart #MakingADifference #DoGood

🌟 What an incredible Crew Day we had at Cynozure on Tuesday! 🌟 Our team spent a full day together, with some brilliant sessions, hosting our 'Values' awards and followed by a lively lunch the next day. In the afternoon, we had the privilege of working with the amazing charity, Give Your Best, an award-winning social enterprise with the first online platform to donate clothes where communities living in clothing poverty can access them. Together, we explored how data can help to achieve their objectives and build on the fantastic work the team are doing. As a B-Corp, we're committed to being a force for good and love partnering with organisations making a real impact. THANK YOU to the Give Your Best team for giving up your time and joining us💜 Here's a snapshot ⬇️ #GiveYourBest #ForceForGood #Cynozure

Time to do a Good Business Shoutout! ⭐ First up: Give Your Best! I met Sol Escobar at the British Library Women's Enterprise Event and was super inspired by her work. Give Your Best is an online platform where you 'give your best' (donate your clothes) so people living in clothing poverty can shop for free, with the agency and dignity they deserve. It’s the most empowering way I’ve seen to reframe donated clothes. Growing up, hand-me-downs and boot sales were a big part of my life (I probably got my first taste of entrepreneurship selling handmade hair clips for 50p in a field by a roundabout in Sussex). But for some reason wearing pre-worn clothes and playing with second-hand toys always felt like it came with a touch of shame or stigma. When you’re just trying to get by, and the luxury of ‘new’ isn’t available to you, it can lead you to feeling like you’re ‘less than’ (despite the immense good that comes from extending the life of items AND the fun of setting up shop at 6am in a field). I love that non-profits like Give Your Best make these clothes desirable and exciting again. If you've got some clothes, time or skills to donate, Give Your Best is definitely an organisation where your impact will go far! Pop a comment below if you know someone else who deserves a Good Business Shoutout! 

Tomorrow’s Fashion eCommerce Retail Summits is an exciting event for a few reasons: 🎉 It’s Give Your Best ‘s first official summit partnership 🙌 I will be both introducing the day and speaking in a panel alongside incredible talent ( 👋 hi imposter syndrome) ♻️ our Bestie Bins will be dotted throughout the Summit ready to welcome donations 📣 but more importantly I’ll be bringing to the table topics such as clothing poverty, redistribution as part of sustainability, and hope for meaningful discussions on how we can harness the power of fashion for social good. Who’s coming?? In the panel I’ll be joined by: Darya Badiei Khorsand , moderator Anna Wickes Recommerce Lead at Dr. Martens plc Francesca Lascelles , Brand Partnership Manager at Reskinned Joshua Juxon-Smith , Brand Experience Specialist at PANGAIA  Stuart Trevor Founder at AllSaints & Stuart Trevor

🎉 Exciting news for a Friday - we're delighted to announce the 10 fashion and textiles businesses that have received funding from our ReWear grant programme! Each of the selected businesses is a London-based circular start-up or early-stage business that is pioneering a repair, resale and/or rental solution for textiles that helps reduce the need for making new clothes. We're supporting them to help grow and expand their operations and amplify their impact, while playing a key role in promoting circularity within London’s fashion ecosystem. The 10 businesses are: 1. The Seam 2. Vamp Sneaker Cleaning 3. SOJO 4. Verte 5. Give Your Best 6. Tern Eco 7. Known Source 8. Continue 9. KIRAA 10. Bundlee The ReWear cohort had the opportunity to meet each other in person at a kick-off event this week, hosted at our offices. It was great to meet everyone in person, and there were a lot of exciting conversations happening. We’re looking forward to seeing the impact all their activities have in London over the next few months! These grants are made possible thanks to funding from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, and supported by the Mayor of London. Read more about these 10 pioneering fashion and textiles business innovators and how they're helping driving a circular fashion sector in London: https://lnkd.in/edbNrBmT #circulareconomy #circularfashion #fashion #textiles #reuse #repair #resale #rent #UKSPF | Howard Dawber

🎉 We’re excited to announce that we’re one of 10 businesses awarded a ReWear grant from ReLondon ! 💚 With this support, we’ll be able to empower more Londoners to reduce the need for newly made clothes, expand our impact, and make our solution more accessible across the city. A huge thanks to ReLondon for believing in our mission! ♻ We will be launching our pilot in-store repair/upcycle scheme co-designed with refugee seamstresses from our community, which will include services to customers and partners, workshops, training. etc. 🤝 We are looking for 3 new partners to participate in this exciting pilot launching next month! If you have a brand get in touch with us on Partnerships@giveyourbest.uk 📣 Stay tuned for updates as we take this work to the next level! #ReWear #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #ReLondon #SustainableFashion

SPEAKER UPDATE 🚨 The London Fashion eCommerce Summit 2024 🇬🇧🎡👢✨ will be taking place in 2 WEEKS at the Hilton London Canary Wharf — It's gathering of 200+ top eCommerce and Fashion decision-makers in London includes speakers like 🎤 • Katie Adams, Vice President of Marketing EMEA at Abercrombie & Fitch Co. • Stuart Trevor, Founder at AllSaints • Anna Wickes, Recommerce Lead at Dr. Martens plc • Gaia De Siena, Senior Brand Marketing Manager at EVERPRESS • Sol Escobar, CEO & Co-Founder at Give Your Best • Toya-Louise Ordor, Head of Influencer Marketing and Partnerships at Oner Active • Lana Rush, Head of Marketing at OSPREY LONDON • Joshua Juxon-Smith, Brand & Retail Marketing Executive at PANGAIA • Simon Goodfellow, Managing Director at Parka London • Alex Harley, Head of eCommerce, PERCIVAL Menswear • Lina Tejoprayitno, Co Founder at Pop Specs • Arina Pritch, Founder & CEO at PRITCH London • Francesca Lascelles, Brand Partnership Manager at Reskinned • Jad Freiha, Head of Analytics & Insights at Sweaty Betty • Layla Sargent, Founder & CEO at The Seam • Sofia Mir, Head of Marketing at THOMAS SABO • Victoria Jenkins, Founder & CEO at Unhidden Look forward to hearing them discuss Technology Revolutionizing the Fashion & Apparel Industry, Evolving Landscape of Influencer Partnerships, Sustainability Practices and Trends, Amplifying Diverse Representation in Fashion, Fashion-Forward Marketing, Social Commerce and more! We’d love to see you and your team there! For more information, visit our website: https://lnkd.in/ezP2dPsc Or reach out to Saoirse O'Shea on LinkedIn or at saoirse.oshea@retailsummits.com 💕 #RetailSummits #London #Fashion #eCommerce #Retail #Strategy #Technology #Trends #Sustainability #Leaders

⭐️ Are you an employer in the #insuranceindustry in the UK and want to join a simple but powerful #socialimpact campaign engaging your employees? 👗 Thousands of items end up in landfill every year whilst 5.5 million people in the UK live in #clothingpoverty That can’t be right! 🫶🏼 We are proud to partner with #socialentreprise Give Your Best in support of vulnerable #families such as victims of domestic abuse and refugees who cannot afford to choose what they wear. 🩷 All you need to do is hire a Bestie Bin to collect unwanted items in good condition and Give Your Best will take care of distributing them to the many families they support. If you are interested in joining other insurance companies in this cross-market campaign, request the details at admin@insurancefamilies.org or contact Cristina Galindo #sustainability #employeeengagement

🎄 Join us for a fun and festive day at the Sustainably Influenced Ethical Christmas Market on November 23rd! This one-day event will be hosted at the Give Your Best store in Islington Square organised by Sustainably Influenced by Bianca-Francesca Foley 🛍️Come shop from a curated selection of small, ethical, and sustainable businesses—perfect for getting ahead on your holiday shopping with purpose! 💚 Attendees are also encouraged to bring along good-quality clothing to donate at the event. 🚨 Bonus: Fuel your shopping with delicious coffee, generously sponsored by Caravan Coffee. ☕️ Event Logistics: 📅 Date: Saturday, November 23rd, 2024 🕛 Doors Open: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM 📍 Location: Give Your Best, Islington Square - Unit G12, 129 Upper Street, London, N1 1QP (Wheelchair accessible) 🎟️ Ticket Price: £10 (children under 16 FREE) all proceeds go to Give Your Best. https://lnkd.in/gGsWX-hH

Eager to share my experience from the last two days at the pop-up with Give Your Best a non-profit organization at the London College of Fashion East Bank! A huge thank you to Stacia Bedford and Sabinna Rachimova for organizing the incredible Common Threads week-long event focused on circular fashion, recycling, and upcycling. 🌿♻️ It was an absolute pleasure to meet Sol Escobar the inspiring founder of Give Your Best, and Chloe, a dedicated team member. I learned so much about the formation of non-profit organizations and the powerful impact they make, especially in supporting refugees. The positive response from the LCF community was overwhelming, leading to high sales at the pop-up, with all profits going to help those in clothing poverty. 🙌 I even picked up a bunch of clothes that I'm super excited to wear! 💃 #ShoppingForACause This event was a true example of how fashion can drive positive change. Proud to be part of a community that values sustainability, creativity, and social impact. #Sustainable #RetailPopup #Merchandising #KnowledgeExchange #CircularFashion #ImpactfulFashion #GiveYourBest #LondonCollegeofFashion