Give Your Best

 We are an award-winning 'tech for good' social enterprise offering the first circular platform of its kind where people and brands donate clothes online, so refugee women and children can shop for free, with the agency and dignity they deserve. 

We turn donating into gifting. We empower through choice.

 

Our catalogue of gifted women's and children's clothes/shoes/accessories can be 'shopped' for free by people in the UK who are refugees, seeking asylum, victims of trafficking, destitute, with no recourse to public funds or with precarious immigration status. 

THE GOOD FASHION SHOW by Give Your Best and Friends

came back in October 23' to celebrate the refugee women and children in our community and the power of fashion for good. In partnership with Cambridge Grand Arcade, the event saw the first floor of the shopping centre turned into a runway, where 22 women and children became models for the day dressed by range of brands from high street like Levi's and Hobbs, to small sustainable brands like Sabinna and In Our Name.  Watch the film below to get a sense of this wonderful night.

To partner with us for our next fashion show please email Partnerships@giveyourbest.uk

We have a new platform!

Our new web based app makes it easier to donate and keep track of your items,

as well as more enjoyable to shop.

Reinventing donations

We believe that someone's legal status and financial circumstances  shouldn't mean

a lack of choice in what they want to wear.   

At Give Your Best a donation becomes a gift

the gift of choice,  of empowerment  and connection.


Our Mission

We're on a mission to reduce fashion waste 
and improve the circularity of garments while tackling clothing poverty in an innovative and empowering way.
We support women & children who are refugees, seeking asylum, victims of trafficking, destitute, 
to shop clothes with the dignity and agency they deserve, for free, via our online platform of donated clothing. 
We passionate and committed to sustainability, circularity and tackling donation waste. 
We’re an LGBTQI+ inclusive platform and we stand strongly and passionately for all human rights.

Our Story

Give Your Best was born when our founder Sol and Ilda* (now one of our advisors) connected on Instagram. 
Ilda was seeking asylum** surviving on an allowance of £5.60 a day during COVID19, unable to afford basics like clothes. Sol decided she wanted to send a parcel of toiletries, period products and clothes to Ilda’s household,  which she shared with other women in the same situation. 
Sol put a call out for donations on social media and the response was overwhelming. 
Messages of support for the women poured in along with tens of offers of clothing, and Sol soon realised she needed to come up with a system. That's how she had the idea to create an Instagram-based catalogue of donations so women would be empowered to choose the items they wanted to receive. Sol then shared this idea on social media asking for help to bring it to life and a few wonderful women reached out immediately wanting to support. That’s how, on a Friday night during the 2020 pandemic, three strangers had a Zoom call over one-too-many glasses of wine and Give Your Best was born.  

*not her real name
** Ilda has now received her refugee status after a 3 year wait.

recent press & awards

IMPACT

30,000+

Items gifted + shopped

3000+

People have gifted clothes

350+

Volunteers

3500+

Women & children supported
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