Dare to Wear Day Media Release

The courage and conviction that characterises so many vulnerable women experiencing disadvantage will be applauded and celebrated next month on Dare to Wear Day, Friday 30 March 2012.Designed to raise awareness and funds for women ‘doing it tough’, Dare to Wear Day will see families, friends and colleagues challenge each other as individuals and groups […]

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December 12, 2011

Post written by Jane Hunt, former inaugural CEO at Fitted for Work. Welcome to our brand new website and my first ever blog! At our wonderful end of year celebrations last week, one of the women, Dee, who had recently graduated from the Transition to Work program, spoke about feeling like she was ‘one of the […]

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Women of Morwell get fitted for work

ABC Gippsland report by Jem Wilson Walking into a job interview is an experience most of us dread, and it’s even harder when you don’t have the right clothes to wear. But an organisation in Morwell is helping women in the Latrobe Valley to get fitted for work and achieve financial independence. ABC Gippsland […]

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Morwell Boutique Launches

Congratulations to Emma Birchall and her team of volunteers in Morwell for a wonderful launch celebration 31 March. There was great support from the local community at the event which was attended by about 25 people, from job service agencies, Centrelink, training organisations, local businesses such as Endota Spa, to women consulted in the research […]

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Not your Everage sight in Flinders St…

31 March, 2011 – Suzanne Carbone – Postcode 3000 The Age Flinders street station attracts all sorts, but tomorrow under the clocks there’ll be a distinctive woman with a mauve wig and matching glasses waving gladioli at pedestrians. Renata Singer, co-founder of Fitted for Work, a charity that provides disadvantaged women with clothes for work, […]

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7.30 Report – ABC Television

February 2007 – Lisa Whitehead Charity boutique offers makeover for job seekers KERRY O’BRIEN: They say clothes maketh the man, but in job interviews it seems they more than maketh the women. Research suggests women, more so than men, are judged by prospective employers on the way they dress. That’s a comment on the employers, […]

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774 ABC Radio Melbourne

9 February, 2011 – Alan Brough Well dressed women help unemployed on road to security. Alan Brough talks with the managers of Fitted for Work Well heeled women help the unemployed put their best feet forward through the Fitted for Work program – a volunteer-based organisation offering business clothing, presentation and interview tips and generally […]

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