Crowdfunding campaign to support fashion community training centre in Westminster – WEPT
28/01/2022
UKFT education partner WEPT (Women Empowerment Project & Training) is running a crowdfunding campaign to establish a permanent place to deliver intergenerational creative education and skills training, media and art programmes for disadvantaged young people/adults in Church Street, Westminster. The crowdfunding campaign will close on Monday 28 February 2022.
Skills Training & Education Creative Hub
STEPS will consist of fully equipped fashion design studio including classrooms, multi-purpose art/craft room as well as an office/cafe and project/exhibition space.
WEPT’s projects foster collaborative, cultural exchange between creative practitioners and disadvantaged youth/adults. By doing so, the project seeks to build self-confidence, tackle trauma, feelings of isolation and loneliness, provide pathways to further education and increase employability.
Situated in the heart of Church Street, STEPS ideally located in the community WEPT works with and provide opportunities to run a range of community driven projects as well as core programmes.
VIEW THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN HERE
About WEPT – Women Empowerment Project & Training
UKFT Education Partner WEPT CIC was established 2015 as social enterprise, creating and administering projects that aims to promote empowerment, training in fashion and textiles, apprenticeships and sustainability in the community.
The community interest company has a dedicated focus on workforce development package and capacity building by providing industry specific learning and development of skills within the fashion and textiles industry. WEPT uses NCFE accredited quality qualifications and apprenticeships ranging from level 1, 2, 3 based in West London.
Garment production/sewing – working and training
WEPT “Working &Training” is the key programme of the project where disadvantaged women, enjoy sharing the pleasure of making and learning together and earning at the same time. This programme will not only provide a “sewing” class but also provide women with an opportunity to learn/enhance a skill that can lead to an income.
The women who attend the sewing course will also be given our business training so they can integrate their practical sewing skills with business knowledge to successfully start their own micro-business. WEPT also seeks to partner with other organisations for various support to enable the women trained by the programme can produce products, which will not only be sold in retail shop across London but also required by these businesses in an innovative and effective fashion.
This new knowledge and income stream empowers women to become self-sufficient providers in a community where there has historically been little opportunity for professional advancement and make the project self-sufficient.