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Clothing Support from the Cradle to the Grave
It’s a privilege to be able to support NUH Trust by delivering clothes for patients from the moment of birth to the closing stages of life. Today we processed our Mothercare donation so that the neonatal and maternity wards of Nottingham City Hospital will receive the first size packs at the same time as delivering […]
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Mothercare Mums Gift a Bundle to Sharewear
Staff from Mothercare Castle Marina store delivered 290 packs of both pre-loved and unused baby clothing today, made up of items donated by their customers through the #GiftABundle campaign. As well as being accessible at our base and delivered to our outreach partners, many of these packs will be used to stock our Ashfield and Mansfield Children’s Referral Centre.
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Starting to go plastic free!
Reusing and recycling is a huge part of what our work involves, as 30kg of clothes per head of the UK population get thrown into landfill each year. The clothes donated to us are saved from that fate. So we are delighted that, in 10 weeks, volunteer Lois has used surplus material from our stocks […]
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Our Wednesday session
Just one of the 11 children and adults who had clothing support from us at our base during our short session today. Clothes for more than 100 children aged 2-16 were also delivered to 2 of our outreach partners. #clothingpoverty affects so many people in Notts.
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Providing clothing support for 4 years…
The Wednesday volunteer team celebrated our 4th birthday today by just mucking in as usual with all the hard work. It was great to have trustee George Hagen with us, giving up time in his holidays as a teacher as usual, and founding member Angela Cooke, visiting Nottingham for a couple of weeks. In spite of […]
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Trustee would walk 500 miles for Sharewear
One of our trustees, Andrew Britton, is walking the Camino de Santiago to raise funds for Sharewear. He will begin this challenge at the end of April and it will take one month to complete. This 500 mile ancient pilgrimage route stretches from the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains in south west France, across the […]
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Concert at Christ the King wonderful success!
Delighted to announce that our concert at Christ the King CVA last week, featuring incredible talent from 5 of our Sharewear Schools partners, raised a brilliant £900! This will be used to keep our outreach van on the road for the next year. Thank you so much to the students and staff at Southwark Primary, […]
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Shortlisted for the Pride of Gedling awards
Sharewear are extremely proud to have been shortlisted for the Outstanding Community Project Award in the ceremony to take place this Thursday 29th March. What a brilliant way to mark the occasion of our 4th birthday, the day before! Click here to see the other categories