Today we clothed 7 families, 20 people,  with everything they need from top to bottom, including shoes, coats gloves and even a school bag! This included an unborn baby. It was great being able to put our new facilities to good use, such as baby changing and a space for sleeping babies and breastfeeding mums.  Such […]

CEO Louise Cooke met with members of the 102nd Rise Park Scout Group  this week to collect a car FULL of donations which they had been gathering  over the Christmas and New Year period. Louise spoke to the children about how their generosity will help children in need in Nottingham who do not have the same […]

An amazing day of induction training today for our 8 new volunteers. Welcome to Susy, Irfan, Ambreen, Michelle, Satty, Lee, James and Stewart who all did amazing sorting work today.  Clothing our first family at The Beacon was so lovely, as they were able to make use of our new changing facilities, baby changing area […]

So comfortable, warm, dry and airy at our new premises this afternoon, getting everything ready for opening for referrals for the first time in 2017, this Friday 6th January. This photo shows about 1/3 of our stock! We are seeking more distribution points, to have deliveries of some of our clothes, and more referral agents […]

We would like to thank members of the Parochial Church Council of St Martin’s Church, Sherwood for their generous donation of £225 to our funds, as part of their Charitable Giving for 2016.  This sum will be used to cover our removal expenses to new premises in Arnold, where we will open for the first […]

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. […]

  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 […]

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 […]