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.
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!