Championing garment workers to drive long-term sustainable change
The Garment and Textile Workers Trust is a grant giving charity
Our ambition is to use the funding available to enhance, extend and compliment the work of service providers, advocacy organisations and local charities in Leicester who share our in our ambitions of providing support, remedy and advocacy for workers across Leicester’s garment and textile industry.
For our first year, we have committed to closed giving
This means that rather than having open applications for funding, we have formed a contact group of local organisations who will help us deliver on our three key priorities for our first year.
Our initial priorities for targeted closed funding are as follows:
Provision of English Language training and education for garment workers
Advocacy support work to promote workers accessing and enforcing their rights
Donations to Food Banks situated in in the garment and textile district to help workers with the cost-of-living crisis
Our initial priorities for targeted closed funding are as follows:
Provision of English Language training and education for garment workers
The Trust has identified service providers of ESOL courses and will be providing funding to the following organisations to deliver this training:
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Advocacy support work to promote workers accessing and enforcing their rights
In order to deliver on this priority, the Trust will be providing funding to XXX who will XXX
Donations to Food Banks situated in in the garment and textile district
In order to immediately help those struggling with the cost of living crisis, the Trust will be partnering with XXX to provide donations to food banks accessed by many garment workers.
Be part of our contact group
If you would like to be considered to be part of our contact group for the first year of grant giving and can compliment the delivery of our initial three key priorities, please fill out the contact form on our Contact Us page.
