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Sharewear Partner School St. John Houghton CVA makes Large Donation
Lovely to have a donation from one of our Sharewear Schools partners today, St. John Houghton CVA. The school, and then their Chaplain Rachel Rose-Britton, have been sitting on the donation for us for a long time! Thanks to everyone for respecting our new system for arranging donations. Next week commencing 20th Aug is already […]
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Welcoming New Partner Forget-Me-Notts
On our busiest day so far in our new premises, (with 7 referrals), it was wonderful to have a visit from Rob and Rebecca of Operation Orphan bringing children’s clothes that aren’t suitable for their work overseas. They also had a referral from their sister charity Forget-Me-Notts, for a local family in need.
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School Uniform Available in Long Eaton
A massive amount of school uniform delivered to St. John C of E church, Long Eaton for distribution at their Welcome on Wednesday meals during the school holidays, where families who have been referred by local schools will be able to access uniform. Trustee George, right, will act as our weekly liaison on this project […]
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Helping Families Prepare for a New School Year
Taking advantage of the sunshine today to audit our school uniform and split it between our HQ base, our Ashfield Children’s Referral Centre and the school uniform project running this summer at our outreach partner St. John’s C of E church, Long Eaton. Thanks to your generosity, vulnerable families from across Nottingham, Gedling Borough, Ashfield […]
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Helping families at New Cross Community Church
It’s wonderful that volunteers from New Cross Community Church, Sutton-in-Ashfield are working hard to help families like this one struggling to cope with emergency situations and being referred to our Ashfield and Mansfield Children’s Referral Centre. Without the New Cross team we would struggle to reach these families in the northwest of our county.
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Early arrivals need clothing too
On Wednesday, in the middle of an incredibly busy session, we still managed to make our first delivery to City hospital Neonatal unit. The three sacks of first size and premature packs of clothes from the Mothercare #GiftABundle campaign will be used across both NUH sites for babies born into difficult financial circumstances.
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Partnering with National Institution YMCA
On a very busy session today we clothed five families and processed the first of our bulk deliveries to our latest partner Notts YMCA. We are so proud to have been asked to become the supplier of clothes to this wonderful institution locally, enabling some of the 300 in their temporary accommodation at any […]
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Delivering to Partners and Distribution Points
Wow, what an amazing day down at Sharewear today! A full team of volunteers were able to catch up with some of the backlog of donations from recent weeks, as well as process lots of stock for deliveries. Between the four deliveries made to some of our outreach partners and distribution points today by Chris, Ian and […]
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Sharewear Welcomes New Partner Last Orders
Today we welcomed Last Orders, Recovery in Nottingham, as an outreach partner. They received their first delivery from us of men’s and women’s clothes, as well as clothes suitable for job interviews and a selection of bedding. Hopefully these will enable their staff to give even more support to their service users, helping them to […]