Aboriginal Victoria
Clothing the Gaps by
Laura Thompson Laura designs t-shirts to spark conversations but now the company she co-founded, Clothing the Gaps, is doing far more by funding Aboriginal health and community programs. Many of our worlds were turned upside down with the arrival of the pandemic but when Laura Thompson and Sarah Sheridan's business took a huge hit, they turned lemons into lemonade. Alongside social enterprise Clothing the Gaps, they'd been running Spark Health to deliver health promotion programs and resources to Aboriginal communities. As part of that, Laura, a Gunditjmara woman, designed t-shirts, with the sales helping to fund its programs. “Clothing the Gaps really grew during the first lockdown because we couldn’t deliver our grassroots programs and we lost a lot of our contracts,” says Laura. “We didn’t want to lose any staff – we were a team of four at the time – so we refocused our efforts on the brand.”
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Laura Thompson
