# SMART WORKS BRISTOL

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1213105
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** April 28, 2025
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1213105


## Contact

- **Address:** Smart Works Bristol, Easton Business Centre, Felix Road, Bristol
- **Postcode:** BS5 0HE
- **Phone:** 0117 941 5391
- **Email:** bristol@smartworks.org.uk
- **Website:** https://bristol.smartworks.org.uk/



## Activities

**Objects:** THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE "OBJECTS") ARE THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE AMONG WOMEN LIVING IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY PROVIDING WORK-APPROPRIATE CLOTHING FOR INDIVIDUALS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT AND/OR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, PROVIDING JOB-SEEKING ADVICE, TRAINING AND EDUCATION AND PROVIDING SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THOSE WHO SUCCESSFULLY PROCURE EMPLOYMENT OR AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, AND PROVIDED THAT SUCH BENEFITS MAY BE PROVIDED TO MEN WHERE IT IS DEEMED APPROPRIATE, IN THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES, IN THE COURSE OF ADVANCING THE OVERALL OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY.

**Activities:** We help women on low incomes get back to work by dressing them in a complete outfit of smart clothes to wear to their interview and by giving them one-to-one interview training. A professional outfit followed by careful interview preparation transforms our clients' self-confidence and gives them a far greater chance of succeeding.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- **What:** Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
- **Who:** Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Bristol City




## Trustees

- **Catherine Sarah Everett Murphy** (Chair) — appointed Nov. 5, 2025
- Catherine Louise Warne — appointed April 3, 2025
- Elly May McLoughlin — appointed April 3, 2025
- Jane Padwick — appointed July 30, 2025
- Laura Francesca Fowler — appointed April 3, 2025
- Ruth Jackson — appointed July 30, 2025