Events

We organize events all around the globe talking about women empowerment projects.

1 November, 2021

Crowdfunding Campaign

STEPS (Skills Training Exhibitions & Production Space) Crowdfunding Campaign

We are running a crowdfunding campaign on Spacehive, the UK’s dedicated platform for improving local services.

Our campaign is called: Skills Training & Education Creative Hub

STEPS (Skills Training Exhibitions & Production Space) Crowdfunding Campaign

We are running a crowdfunding campaign on Spacehive, the UK’s dedicated platform for improving local services.
Our campaign is called: Skills Training & Education Creative Hub
Our campaign page URL is: https://www.spacehive.com/thelondonsteps
Our campaign will run until: 7 February 2022
Our crowdfunding target is: £37,127
Spacehive has a partnership with City of Westminster Council, which can pledge up to £8000 to our campaign. We have made an application to their fund via Spacehive, and our campaign will be considered after a few weeks of crowdfunding. Getting pledge will in part based on the strength of our project and its alignment with their funding priorities, but also the popularity of our campaign. We must hit our target in order to receive the funds. If we don’t hit our target, then we don’t receive anything. People can ‘back’ our campaign by ‘pledging’ via the campaign page. This involves using either papal or Gocardless (this is a payment gateway that allows people to pledge using a UK bank account and sort code) The ‘pledge’ is set up as a pre-authorised payment, so no money is actually taken from the backer unless we hit our target, the pledge is cancelled. Crowdfunding means we need to actively promote our campaign if we need to reive pledges. The minimum is £2, and at the start of the campaign if we need to gather as many as possible as this will demonstrate the popular appeal of our project. Our project has successfully passed verification process, where it was assessed by an independent organisation called Loyalty

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17 July, 2021

VIP Visit to WEPT PROJECT on Thursday 15 July 2021

Serena Simon (Head of Church Street regeneration), Cllr Heather Acton (Cabinet Member for Communities and Regeneration) and a couple of members of Westminster’s Economy team visiting WEPT Project, Church Street Studios. VIP Visit to WEPT PROJECT on Thursday 15 July 2021

7 july, 2021

Wept Workshop Project 2020/21

It takes a whole lot of sewing to make even one garment, and these seamstresses work at very fast speed

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Clothes Making Programme @ The Church Street Studios, 382-386 Edgware Road, London W2 1EB,

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Wept Workshop Project 2020/21

It takes a whole lot of sewing to make even one garment, and these seamstresses work at very fast speed Join WEPT Project Clothes Making Programme @ The Church Street Studios, 382-386 Edgware Road, London W2 1EB,

Are you interested in learning how to make clothes/garments

Programme Date: 22 June 2021 10:00am – 3:00pm (Tuesday to Friday) FREE TO ACCESS 12-week NCFE Accredited practical course will develop your knowledge and technical skills and show you how to construct simple garments such as blouse, skirt and dress using commercial patterns and learning pattern cutting At the end of the twelve-week course, you will know how to

Operate and control a domestic & industrial sewing machine
Create basic stitching
Read commercial sewing patterns and sizing
Lay out and pin your toile/fabric for the garment of your choice
Mark and cut your toile/fabric, sew up, fit and finish
Gain an insight into different career routes in garment construction
Boost your confidence, interview skills and CV
Receive up to three months progression support from WEPT to help you find further work, training or get help with starting your micro-business/enterprise.

17 July, 2020

The Third Anniversary of Grenfell

At WEPT this Sunday June 14, the UK we will unite, reflect and remember in grief for the third anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy. Especially these

The Third Anniversary of Grenfell

At WEPT this Sunday June 14, the UK we will unite, reflect and remember in grief for the third anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy. Especially these unprecedented times to mark the date, as communities affected by the fire are unable to get together and mourn the 72 people who lost their lives.

As a community interest group WEPT, we are very delighted to continue to support and work with the women from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds that were affected by the Grenfell tragedy in delivering technical and creative aspect of fashion design and garment construction, health and well-being projects in the community. In working with these group of women at the Curve community centre, we were very privileged and quickly became aware of the challenge and critical that we develop a deeper understanding and empathy, which enabled us to take special care due to the psychological and emotional trauma some of these women have experienced and their desire for industry skills, health and well-being

29 June, 2020

Covid-19 Update

COVID-19 is, fundamentally, a human tragedy. These are unprecedented times, and unprecedented times call for unprecedented action. In addition …

COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 is, fundamentally, a human tragedy. These are unprecedented times, and unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions. In addition to real impact on human lives, we’re grappling with an uncertain future and feel it’s vital for us to focus on skills as the fashion sector is not immune.

At WEPT, our mission is to continue to provide fashion skills training to our beneficiaries in the community — and fulfilling this mission is more important now than ever before.

Our advice, therefore, for those interested in Fashion and Clothing, in order to prepare and be able to adapt in the new opportunities that will evolve in the Fashion Industry post Covid-19 and Brexit, it is of critical significance to have right skills for the craft.

As we work remotely from home, we are at the final stages of developing response on how we can best service our participants/learners over the period these measures are in place and beyond; through online – virtual classroom. So, we’re asking our participants/learners to please understand if we are unable communicate at this time.

5 May, 2020

Equip Project

Join WEPT Project Clothes Making Programme @ the Kensal Resource Centre, Appleford Road, W10 5EQ, Are you interested in learning how to make ..

EQUIP PROJECT

It takes a whole lot of sewing to make even one garment, and these seamstresses work at very fast clip #Fashionstar

Join WEPT Project

Clothes Making Programme @ the Kensal Resource Centre, Appleford Road, W10 5EQ,

Are you interested in learning how to make clothes?

Taster Day: Tuesday 3 March 2020

Programme Date: 10 March 2020 to 15^th June 2020

10:00am – 3:00pm (Tuesday & Thursday)

FREE TO ACCESS 12-week Accredited practical course will develop your knowledge and technical skills and show you how to construct simple garments such as blouse, skirt and dress using commercial patterns and learning pattern cutting

At the end of the twelve-week course, you will know how to

Operate and control a domestic & industrial sewing machine
Create basic stitching
Read commercial sewing patterns and sizing
Lay out and pin your toile/fabric for the garment of your choice
Mark and cut your toile/fabric, sew up, fit and finish
Gain an insight into different career routes in garment construction
Boost your confidence, interview skills and CV
Receive up to three months progression support from WEPT to help you find further work, training or get help with starting your micro-business/enterprise

5 April, 2020

Mayor of London’s Culture Seed Project

We completed the implementation of The Mayor of London’s Culture Seed funded; Project Fashion Design and Dressmaking at The CURVE in 2019.

Mayor of London’s Culture Seed Project

We completed the implementation of The Mayor of London’s Culture Seed funded; Project Fashion Design and Dressmaking at The CURVE in 2019. Delivered free to access creative activities of fashion design and dressmaking that enhanced participant’s quality of life and breakdown cultural, religious and age-related barriers. The project helped new skills training, tackled trauma, increased feelings of isolation and loneliness faced by both young & old within the community of Grenfell.

We at WEPT are really pleased to have secured Culture Seed funding that enabled us to achieved our primary objective by successfully delivering a Community-led fashion project that played a vital role in the cultural make-up of North Kensington especially the Grenfell community by recognizing, celebrating and showcasing local culture and heritage, making the most of diversity and talent and encouraged people from a range of backgrounds to participate, especially those who face barriers to engaging in the arts.

10 March, 2020

National Lottery Awards for All – Intergenerational Project

We recently completed our WEPT intergenerational project funded by the National Lottery Awards for All; using

National Lottery Awards for All – Intergenerational Project

National Lottery Awards for All – Intergenerational Project

We recently completed our WEPT intergenerational project funded by the National Lottery Awards for All; using the theme of fashion to bring together people from diverse cultural backgrounds aged between 26 – 75 years across the London Borough of Brent at the Catalyst’s Unity Centre in Harlesden. Participants took part in sessions aimed at designing, making and producing fashion garments, suitable for all ages.

We used the existing skills of participants to enhance the learning of others in the group as well as introducing them all to new skills and pastimes. We introduced and helped people gain experience in using the Internet, email programmes and online social media programmes. By sharing experiences between the younger participants to help older people to use technology and the older participants to pass on their life experiences and skills to the younger generation thereby breaking down age barriers. By doing this we enhanced and improved the knowledge and appreciation of the historic, cultural and traditional life of those living within the London Borough of Brent.

The project has been a great success and we also empowered a group of fairly experienced women in collaboration with the Unity Centre, to make garments to be sold in pop-up shops and stalls across the borough. We are therefore, very grateful to the National Lottery for the support and their continued support, and look forward to working with them again soon.

3 March, 2020

Zobia and Vaness M’boge and Wept Project

This project is a collaboration between WEPT a CIC and two fashion brands company; Zobia and Vaness M’Boge as part of their giving back to the…

ZOBIA AND VANESS M’BOGE AND WEPT PROJECT

This project is a collaboration between WEPT a CIC and two fashion brands company; Zobia and Vaness M’Boge as part of their giving back to the community in Wembley and co sponsored by The Kindness Offensive charity in the Brent area. Most of the senior citizens had little to no experience with sewing, but had a burning desire to learn more about garment making. The 12-week program is one of the projects with Outreach, to work with local young people, schools and families to inform them of the opportunities in the creative industries.

This pilot project is in respond to a group of local senior citizens who are essentially neglected in the local community and wanted to learn about the sewing and garment making. Over 12 weeks (for 4 hours a week) they worked with two designers Vaness M’Boge of Vaness M’boge womenswear brand and Susan Lake a London College of Fashion graduate, to study a range of specialist skills in fashion, dressmaking, pattern cutting, fabric manipulation, cushions/soft furnishings and other craft pieces of their choice.

Most of these seniors had little to no sewing skills, but by the end of the project they would’ve chosen a commercial pattern and make their own dresses. At the end of the project in July, during the up coming Wembley Futures festival, these seniors will be showcasing their dresses they made at an award ceremony organized for their efforts, and also we’ll be helping them out with additional classes if they want to take it further.

So watch this space!

Events

We organize events all around the globe talking about women empowerment projects.

1 November, 2021

Crowdfunding Campaign

17 July, 2021

7 july, 2021

Wept Workshop Project 2020/21

17 July, 2020

The Third Anniversary of Grenfell

29 June, 2020

Covid-19 Update

5 May, 2020

Equip Project

5 April, 2020

Mayor of London’s Culture Seed Project

10 March, 2020

National Lottery Awards for All – Intergenerational Project

3 March, 2020

Zobia and Vaness M’boge and Wept Project

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