Welcome to goodmakes! š
I’m glad you’ve found us. If you’ve arrived here you have probably been looking for one of these things – children’s clothing, textile design, topics relating to motherhood, mothers returning to work or social enterprises.
My name is Stephanie and I am setting up a new social enterprise called goodmakes which aims to helpĀ mothers gain the skills and confidence to find a job and start work after having a baby. This will be achieved through a business structure based on creative textile design workshops where children’s trousers are produced leading to month-long internship opportunities with goodmakes in a child-friendly, safe and nurturing work environment that helps build skills and confidence.
Mothers come along to a freeĀ goodmakesĀ textile design workshop where they share stories of motherhood and use those narratives as inspiration to design the textiles which will be used to make children’s trousers.
As a first step, the workshops encourage mothers to socialise and meet other mothers whilst learning about textile design, which may be enough of an out-take for some mothers.
During the workshops mothers will be offered the opportunity to intern with goodmakesĀ for a month to gain skills to add to their CV in a variety of roles including Sales, Marketing, Updating the Website, Sewing and Textile Design. They will also be offered help with their CV content and layout and interview skills.
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If you are interested in our story or you are thinking about setting up a social enterprise yourself, follow me as I set upĀ goodmakes and I will keep you posted on our progress!