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Sharewear Ready for Open Day in New Premises
An ENORMOUS ‘Thank You’ goes out to all the amazing people who made the move into our new premises go so smoothly! You all gave up precious time at the weekend to ensure that we are more than ready for our first extended opening hours this Friday 5th February, from 10.30 until 2pm. The place […]
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Sharewear’s last opening at the Infant of Prague
The end of an era at Sharewear today as we began to pack up for the move to our new premises tomorrow. Thanks to the team for getting so stuck in, including Christ the King Sixth Form student Patrick. We also managed to clothe 27 asylum seekers through our outreach delivery packs — twenty adults and […]
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Clothing the Naked in The Year of Mercy
In Catholic circles we are celebrating this year ‘The Year of Mercy’, during which we will be reflecting and acting upon the spiritual and corporal ‘Works of Mercy’. I have just produced the following piece for the dedicated website created on this theme for our diocese (the whole of the East Midlands and a little […]
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Building for the Future at Dawn FM
Ash Choudry, who runs the programme Building for the Future on Wednesdays at Dawn FM, interviewed me briefly recently. Below is his brilliant write-up from the transcript. http://bftfblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/interview-louise-cooke-from-sharewear.html
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Joining the Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Today at Sharewear a small team began to sort out, ready for the big move in only two weeks time! In addition to this we provided bedding for six homeless women, supported a sick person, and had a visit from a support worker employed by Gedling Borough Council. She had come on behalf of a […]
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Moving on Up!
At the end of January Sharewear is moving! Our last opening in the Infant of Prague Church will be Friday 29th January. Our new premises are just across the crossroads where Oxclose Lane Police Station is situated. It’s the building which was formerly Bestwood Library, on Arnold Road. It looks a little different to this picture […]
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Off to a Flying Start
Thanks to all the team on rota at Sharewear today who worked hard to make our first session of the year a productive one. It was so frustrating for flu to keep me away! As well as dealing with six deliveries of donated clothes they clothed nine adults and 2 children. The five male asylum […]
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Not Just for Christmas
Today saw the culmination of a lot of hard work from all our volunteers. We were able to deliver 50 packs of clothes to Vicky Lott and her team at the NHS Health Shop as they gave a Christmas breakfast to their street homeless clients. It was great for us to also be able to […]
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The Twelve Months of Sharewear
In January at Sharewear we continued to expand with an increase in donations. In February at Sharewear we continued to expand with uni volunteers and an increase in donations. In March at Sharewear we continued to expand with our first birthday, uni volunteers and an increase in donations. In April at Sharewear we continued to […]