A New Home for The Wardrobe

Aim

We're raising funds for a new premises for our gender inclusive clothes bank, making it accessible to all who need it.

The Wardrobe is a safe space and clothes bank, for anyone who is trans, non-binary, intersex or gender-questioning. We are open to anyone who needs access to free or affordable clothing, and who feels unsafe in standard shopping and changing environments.

The Wardrobe started life in a cupboard at The NewBridge Project back in 2022. In 2024 we moved to Orbis Community in Gateshead. Both these homes have been vital to our development, but now we're ready to spread our wings and set up on our own!

We would love to take on a new premises, and staff it properly so we can offer regular opening times for people to drop-in to browse, alongside the private appointments which are so vital to people at the beginning of their transition journey.

The Wardrobe will take up one half of this new space, and the other half will become Double Space: a brand new accessible co-working (and body doubling) space for neurodivergent creatives. The two projects will be run by For Ourselves CIC, a brand new organisation started by Grace Denton (who co-founded The Wardrobe and Making Time) and Aqua Csóková (who first attended as a student, became a volunteer, and is now a Director!).

Studies consistently report a high co-occurrence of gender diversity and neurodiversity, and so we feel these two projects will make excellent neighbours, and cross-pollinate to form a welcoming community for people who struggle to find it elsewhere.

We're so grateful to Heaton Pride, Sister Shack and LUSH for inviting us to fundraise as part of their celebrations this Pride month. We do not usually have capacity to run off-site stalls, but we couldn't pass up the opportunity to be supported by these three fantastic organisations to build momentum towards this new phase of our development.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 9th August 2026 at 6:42pm