Donate

Your donation will make a huge difference

By supporting The Social Studio you are supporting refugee creatives to find their voice, express their creativity, and provide the building blocks towards work and learning within the creative industries and beyond. Become a regular donor and join our community of Common Thread members and, remember – all donations are tax deductible!

  • $25 provides a student with a sewing starter kit
  • $100 supports one young person to attend a creative industries career day
  • $250 provides pattern-making paper for a whole term
  • $500 funds a financial literacy or design skills workshop
  • $1000 pays for 2 hours of mentoring and goal setting per student
  • $5000 funds one 12-week paid internship for a student or alum

Common Thread membership

Common Thread is the name we’ve given to our team of incredible supporters, our BFFs, our squad. If you’re in it it’s because you believe in the mission of what we do at TSS and share in our common values of creating opportunity, celebrating creativity and championing the strengths of people from refugee and new migrant backgrounds.

There are three levels to membership – Bronze, Silver and Gold – with perks including a gift on your birthday and early-bird access to new collections and events! Not to mention knowing that your regular monthly donation will help us to plan ahead and make long-term improvements for refugee and migrant young people. Simply let us know you’d like to be a member when setting up your donation and we’ll take care of the rest!

Bronze: monthly donations up to $30 per month; perks include invites to exclusive VIP events and a gift from TSS to you on your birthday (members based in Aus only)

Silver: monthly donations between $31 per month and $99 per month; perks include invites to exclusive VIP events, a gift from TSS to you on your birthday (members based in Aus only) and early bird access to TSS events (such as ‘meet the maker’ events, VIP shopping nights)

Gold: monthly donations of $100 per month or more; perks include invites to exclusive VIP events, a gift from TSS to you on your birthday (members based in Aus only), early bird access to TSS events (such as ‘meet the maker’ events, VIP shopping nights) and 2x free passes to TSS’s Melbourne Fashion Festival events (held annually in March)