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Crowdfunder Ends but Donations Continue
Thank you to our crowd of backers who together pledged £745 through our Crowfunder page which closed today. In addition to other recent donations your pledges have helped secure our future for at least another year. But more importantly, they have bought us the time to apply for more major pots of funding to secure, […]
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“It’s Like Going Clothes Shopping- but Free!”
Sharewear would like to express our enormous thanks to a financial donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, for their generous donation of £3,500. The donor has worked at one of our referral agents and had very satisfied feedback from our clients every time they referred someone to us for help. “We didn’t feel like we were receiving […]
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Starting School the Sharewear Way
As September got under way, we clothed three families today at Sharewear. A family of four being rehoused were able to get everything they needed for each member of the family, including duvets and bedding. The little girl above was part of another family of four, currently living in temporary accommodation, and she is starting […]
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Wet Weather Wellies
The wet weather didn’t deter a stream of families from flooding into Sharewear today. 21 people were clothed from 7 referrals, including an unborn child. The truth behind the propaganda which programmes such as Benefits Street pedal was clear to see. One of our clients was a family on benefits with five children, paying rent because […]
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A Productive Session and Plans for the Future
This week at Sharewear we clothed 24 people on site from 5 referrals, and 17 people were clothed at our distribution point Asian Women’sProject. Plans are also getting firmed up for our concert at the Trinity school on 12th October. It promises to a brilliant evening , featuring Britain’s Got Talent contestants, members of the […]
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Quality Control at Sharewear
A quieter day than normal gave us time to devote ourselves to quality control, making sure all our stock is up to standard. Our guideline is “If we wouldn’t wear it ourselves or want to see one of our family members in it, it doesn’t make it into stock”. Thanks to all those who brought […]
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Inundated with Requests for Help
Each week at Sharewear we just seem to keep getting busier and busier! Today we were rushed off our feet with eight referrals, clothing 28 people. Included in that were the Romanian street homeless couple above, who have only been in Nottingham for two days after several years working in Spain. Having very little English they […]
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Sharewear Clothes Its 900th Client This Year
Today at Sharewear we clothed 5 families and gave signposting with schools admission advice. The clients we helped today took the figure for how many people we have helped since the start of 2016 to over the 900 mark. We want to say a HUGE “thank you” and “well done” to the Year 4 pupils of […]
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Thank You’s All Round
A massive thank you to all of the Sharewear team who turned up today to help run the Garden Sale, which went ahead in an improvised way in spite of the weather!! And thank you to those who came down and bought a few items. Not forgetting a big thank you to the people who […]