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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, […]
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December Deadline for Donations
As we are moving premises on Friday 30th December we unfortunately need to impose a strict deadline for your clothing donations to help us get organised for the move, whilst at the same time still helping people with referrals and carrying out deliveries! Therefore the last day for donations this year is Friday 9th December. If […]
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Flurry of Donations at Sharewear
Today saw a flurry of activity at Sharewear Clothing Scheme. Not only did we clothe members of five families, but we also received a record number of clothes donations. One of the donations was delivered by students from the University of Nottingham, in response to our recent appeal for young men’s clothing. We are […]
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Blankets on a Wintery Wednesday
On our busiest Wednesday so far at Sharewear we had four referrals, including two different people who have just spent a year as street homeless and have now been placed in council accommodation. Although they now have roofs over their heads, they have no food, no way of affording to have heating on, and only had the […]
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Sharewear Definitely Still in the EU
It was great to welcome courier Ryan with clothes from France, yes France this weekend! He delivered three large boxes of clothes sent from the ex-pat community in Morzine, a Ski town on the border of the French and Swiss Alps. The residents had heard about us and held a clothing collection for our current needs, […]
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Boot-i-ful day at Sharewear
Today at Sharewear we clothed another 22 people on site or through deliveries, including 15 children. These absolutely gorgeous boots, in pristine condition, were so gratefully received by this lady, who could not thank us enough. In fact, she was so blown away that she stayed on for the rest of the day to help […]
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Nottingham Girl’s High School Donation
Today we welcomed John with a delivery from Nottingham Girls’s High School. The Deputy Head Girl had heard about our work and suggested that the sixth form get involved. After appealing for coats and clothes, their collections added up to a big delivery for John. We are always willing to come into schools and offer […]