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Special Christmas Delivery
Today at Sharewear, as we packed up the contents of our current building, we were able to answer a call for help from Nottingham City Homes. At their request, we made a final delivery of the year. This time it was to a family who lost everything through a house fire in Clifton this week. […]
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Special Christmas Delivery
Today at Sharewear, as we packed up the contents of our current building, we were able to answer a call for help from Nottingham City Homes. At their request, we made a final delivery of the year. This time it was to a family who lost everything through a house fire in Clifton this week. […]
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A Christmas Blessing for 2000 People
On a very busy session at Sharewear today Sandra, trustee and volunteer, was left holding the baby! Little did his Mum, whose name is Blessing, know that he was the 2000th person helped by Sharewear this year!! It was great to see good use being made of one of the gorgeous hats someone recently […]
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Mr and Mrs Volunteers
Meet Irfan and Abreen , our first husband and wife volunteers, who will be joining us on Fridays in the new year. We still have volunteering roles available if you, like them, would like to help us with our work. Work like we carried out today, clothing five families and making a delivery to the […]
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Sharewear’s Pioneering Work in the National News
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A Sharewear Nativity
A woman without a permanent home, a baby boy due at Christmas, nothing to wrap him in and a need for help and support. Sound familiar? Today at Sharewear we provided the mum with a coat and other warm clothes that will fit her now and when she is nursing her baby, as well as lots […]
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New Year, New Premises
On Friday 30th December Sharewear is moving premises to the former Beacon Baptist Church, Birchfield Road, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 8BY. The organisers of the new Beacon Project being run from that building for the people of the Killisick estate, are kindly allowing us the sole use of some of the building for Sharewear. This will […]
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Talking About the Inspiration Behind Sharewear
THE SEVEN ACTS OF MERCY – STORIES FROM THE STREETSAnders Lustgarten, the Writer of The Seven Acts of Mercy meets with Louise from Sharewear, a facility for providing clothing and bedding for people in need. For the past two years, Louise, a 46-year-old ex-teacher and community worker, has been running Sharewear –a “clothes bank”. She […]
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With a Little Help From our Friends
Our thanks go out to the staff of The Royal Concert Hall and members of The Bootleg Beatles who gave such a great plug to our bucket collection after the concert on Monday night this week. Thanks also to Sarah, Chris, Ian, John and Paul whose efforts helped to raise an amazing £438!! Of course, […]