Brides do Good

The world's most beautiful new and pre-loved designer wedding dresses. Proceeds fund projects to end child marriage globally.

[Oxfam @oxfamgb]

"Increasingly, brides are shopping for #sustainable gowns, whether sourcing a second-hand or vintage dress from sellers like @BridesDoGood or Oxfam - which has a tremendous selection on its site." Find your planet-friendly dress👉@OxfamOnlineShop 🌎♻️
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[UN Women @UN_Women]

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Love this way of networking - @ChangePlease make a #SocialEnterpriseShoutOut every week 👏

[Change Please @ChangePlease]

Our #SocialEnterpriseShoutOut is @BridesDoGood. Brides do Good is a wedding dress shop, created by women, where up to two thirds of the proceeds go towards supporting humanitarian programmes that empower and educate girls at risk of child marriage.

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👆 from statements by @Larissa_Ken @YouthForChange, @SarahChampionMP, @ikwro and the incredible @PayzeeMalika

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One key takeaway from #LTVpanel:

We are up against the view that getting married and having a baby are mutually inclusive - that if women’s bodies can do one they should do the other.

We cannot have a law that silently supports this.

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👆 from inspirational and incisive statements by @SarahChampionMP, @Pauline_Latham, @2Faeeza @MuslimWomenUK, @hrw

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A key takeaway from #LTVpanel:

This is not about our faiths. It’s about our rights: the right to choose, and to say no.

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[FORWARD UK @FORWARDUK]

An amazing morning with the women and girls in spaces of power working to #EndChildMarraige! 👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿

"...children should be children, to play, to aspire and achieve their dreams. Not to be someone's wife." -@PayzeeMalika

@IKWRO @GirlsNotBrides @KNFMHBV @IygYemen

[YouthForChangeUK @YouthForChange]

This morning we joined a brilliant coalition of organisations in Parliament to pledge our support to end Child Marriage in England and Wales. We stand determined to end Gender Based Violence within a generation. #LTVpanel

[Sarah Champion @SarahChampionMP]

An honour to listen to the incredible @payzeemalika share her story of child marriage. We cannot expect children to call out parental coercion - we need to end #childmarriage in the UK ⁦@IKWRO⁩ ⁦@KNFMHBV⁩ ⁦@childnotbride⁩ #LTVpanel

[Pauline Latham OBE @Pauline_Latham]

I heard some incredibly powerful testimony from @PayzeeMalika and other inspiring speakers about child marriage. This has to stop and I would encourage everyone to write to their MPs about it. @SarahChampionMP and I will continue to campaign in Parliament. @BridesDoGood @IKWRO

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‘It is achievable... do whatever you can, wherever you are.’ @ChantalKhoueiry wraps up the panel #LTVpanel

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‘Please write to your MP, but do not write an identikit letter or email - we get so many thousands in a week... Write your own!’ @pauline_latham’s advice #LTVpanel

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‘The right to bodily autonomy is separate to the issue of coercion. We have to deal with them in separate ways.’ @larissa_ken #LTVpanel

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‘It is only the number of registered child marriages that is going down - the number of unregistered child marriages is not going down.’ @ikwro #LTVpanel

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Moving to questions from the floor: ‘what’s the plan?’ asks @2faeeza @MuslimWomenUK and @ikwro answers that sharing info & data and working together is essential to changing legislation #LTVpanel

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‘This campaign is not being done to young people but with them.’ @Larissa_Ken #LTVpanel

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‘We’ve seen how much the law has changed the situation with FGM... Having the message there in black and white will change how people see child marriage.’ @payzeemalika #LTVpanel

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‘Not just lovebirds’ @pauline_latham speaks about explaining who child marriage really affects child marriage to parliamentary decision makers #LTVpanel