Dress for Success goes to Downing Street

Fellow DFS volunteers Charlotte, Adonica and I pose for a snap outside Number 10.

Samantha Cameron held a wonderful reception this week for Dress for Success at Downing Street. Home Secretary and minister for women and equality, Theresa May, Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary and Betty Jackson, the British Designer and DFS patron, were some of the high-profile guests mingling with the charity’s supporters and volunteers.

It was a great evening, filled with laughter, interesting conversation and lovely canapés. Samantha’s speech really helped to spread the message of the charity and celebrate all the good work it does getting women back into the workplace. We currently dress in excess of 1,000 women a year and more than 50 per cent of them go on to get the jobs they have applied for.

Hopefully DFS can increase its reach and help even more women around the UK in this coming year.