Author: Louise Cooke

  • Non-Stop Support at Sharewear

    Hard to sum up a day in which we had nine families referred, clothing 20 people on site.  In addition to this we made two large deliveries to our outreach partners, including new partner The Vine Community Centre. Too exhausted to write much more!

  • Mascot Visit from Sharewear Schools partner, Willow Farm Primary

    Over the Easter holidays we have had a visit from Lionel the Leopard, mascot of from the Year 1 class of Willow Farm Primary school, one of our partnership schools in the Sharewear Schools programme. Lionel helped out with sorting and even updated the database! We would love to welcome more mascot visitors to our […]

  • Working Closely With Gedling Borough Council

    It was great to welcome John Robinson, Chief Executive of Gedling Borough Council, to Sharewear today to discuss closer ways of working together.  A quieter session, with three referrals, gave us opportunity to process large deliveries which will be going out to new distribution partners after Easter.

  • April Arrives in Style

    There was quite a carnival atmosphere at Sharewear today with a large volunteer team helping to clothe 10 adults and 9 children across 5 referrals. Non-stop action! Unless you were one of the lucky ones like this baby! In another family, three young men and their dad got all the smart clothes they needed to help […]

  • Brilliant Birthday Boost

    What a treat today to have one of the original group with us who was there helping at our first ever session three years ago today! Mary and the rest of the lunchtime volunteers enjoyed a slice of cake to mark the occasion and to celebrate our other good news. Today we were given a donation […]

  • 100 People Clothed in 1 day!

    On one of our busiest days ever today we distributed clothes to 100 people in one session! Three families were helped at our base and the remaining people will be helped by our partner organisations through the bulk deliveries we made to them today– men, women and children, clothes and bedding.  Here is Ian with […]

  • The Minster School Sixth Form Visit Sharewear

    Another action-packed day at Sharewear.  As well as clothing five families on site we clothed another 42 people by delivery to one of our partner organisations. At lunchtime we received a visit in the glorious sunshine from members of the Sixth Form of The Minster School, Southwell, who came to drop off the donations of […]

  • Clothes for all Situations

    Another extremely busy day at Sharewear today saw us clothing three families at our base and delivering to two people suddenly caught in emergency situations.  One of them got in touch as soon as she had received her delivery,  (clothes and shoes for everyday, clothes and shoes for work, a suitcase to use as a […]

  • Official Launch of Sharewear Schools

    Today was a landmark day for Sharewear: the launch of our new partnership programme Sharewear Schools. This programme is about schools/colleges and Sharewear supporting each other in a variety of ways apart from collecting clothes. These include fundraising, volunteering and lessons given in school on various aspects of clothing poverty, the eco perspective of not re-using clothes, and […]