GIVING BACK

Giving back


WHY THIS EXISTS

The hardest part comes after.

ENDEX Group is an apparel brand, not a charity. But the reason it exists is the gap people fall into when the uniform comes off — so a share of every order goes to the organisations doing that work, and the community side of what we do is built to sit alongside it.

01WHY WE DO IT
01

The structure disappears overnight

One day there's a chain of command, a schedule, and thirty people who notice if you don't show up. The next day there's none of it. Most of the trouble people run into afterwards starts in that silence — not on deployment.

02

Isolation is the actual risk

The thing that helps most isn't complicated: staying connected to people who understand the context you came from. That's cheap to say and hard to build, which is why so few things do it well.

03

A brand can carry some of the weight

We can't fix any of this ourselves. What we can do is route money to people who are good at it, and run a community that gives someone a reason to show up on a Saturday. Both, not one.

02WHERE IT GOES

We fund work in four areas. We pick organisations doing the unglamorous, practical version of each — not the ones with the biggest marketing budget.

TRANSITION

Getting out

Practical help in the first year: work, housing, benefits paperwork, and the admin nobody prepares you for.

MENTAL HEALTH

Care that's actually reachable

Counselling and treatment for people who can't wait months for an appointment or don't qualify for the obvious channels.

PREVENTION

Suicide prevention

Crisis lines, peer outreach, and the programs that check in on people before it becomes an emergency.

COMMUNITY

Reasons to show up

Groups that get people out of the house and around others — the unglamorous, weekly kind that quietly keeps people going.

03HOW IT WORKS
01 A share of every order

Not a campaign, not a special edition, not a checkbox at checkout. It comes out of what we make on everything we sell.

EVERY ORDER
02 It scales as we do

We're small, so right now the amounts are small. The share doesn't shrink as volume grows — the number just gets bigger.

GROWING
03 Published when it's real

The total goes on this page once there's a meaningful figure behind it. No projections, no 'up to', no rounding in our favour.

PENDING
04 You don't have to buy anything

The Discord is free and always will be. If money's tight, come hang out — that costs nothing and it's the part that matters.

ALWAYS FREE
04WHAT WE WON'T DO
  • Use anyone's service, injury or worst day as marketing material.
  • Publish a donation figure we can't substantiate, or dress a small number up as a big one.
  • Claim a partnership with an organisation we haven't actually funded.
  • Pretend a hoodie is a substitute for treatment, or that buying one is doing the work.
IF YOU NEED SOMEONE NOW

This part matters more than the shirt.

If you're struggling, you don't have to wait until it's an emergency to talk to someone. In the US, the Veterans Crisis Line is available 24/7 — dial 988 then press 1, or text 838255. You do not need to be enrolled in VA care to use it.

Outside the US, contact your local emergency number or national crisis line.

No numbers we haven't earned.

We're new. We're not going to publish a donation figure until there's a real one to publish, and we're not going to round it up. When there is a number, it goes here — and it'll be the actual number.

05THE READOUT

Total donated to date.

This is where the running total lives. It stays blank until there's a real figure to put in it.

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