The Sharewear volunteers were definitely hard- done to today, including the 5 Sixth form students who joined us once again from Christ the King R.C. Comprehensive. We never even had a sip of tea! Why? Everyone was so busy multi-tasking that the kettle never made it to being switched on. Here’s what we achieved: 19 outreach bags were […]

The first December Friday saw us clothing three families, in particular providing lots of bedding. So the month began with ten people being clothed. In addition to this, enough clothes and shoes were collated for 12 men using a winter shelter based at the Thomas Helwys Baptist Church in Lenton for five weeks over Christmas and […]

Another Friday, another dozen people were clothed, and another four families were helped to combat crisis! In addition to that, members came together for our first ever AGM, in which three more people became trustees and lots of plans were laid for the year to come. And, as if that wasn’t enough, the team also […]

Today at Sharewear we clothed 46 people through outreach deliveries to Women’s Culture Exchange, Southglade Access Centre, and Right Choice Housing Association. We also clothed two people through referrals on site and made up 16 packs of clothes ready for future deliveries. Managed to squeeze in a presentation to the family support workers at Southglade Access Centre too, […]

Azrak, one of our volunteers, is about to return to Sudan for a while to see his family. He will be visiting a refugee camp at Darfur while he is there and is taking our website and Facebook details with him.  He wants to share information on deprivation in Nottingham and how our scheme hopes to […]

21 of us gathered at Sharewear today to collate the clothes for our packs for street homeless in Nottingham. In addition to this we put together 40 packs of clothes for next week’s outreach deliveries and caught up on the vast amount of generous donations from recent weeks. On a day which will go down in […]

What a productive afternoon! We provided supplies to Right Choice Housing Association for their new hostel, as well as to the Nottingham Winter Shelter, which is coordinated by Emmanuel House. A refugee family had bedding, and Christ the King Sixth Form students did a great job of reorganising all of our school uniform supplies into a […]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22623964 According to this report some residents of our city are the poorest people in the country. The national average income per individual householder after tax, but including benefits, is £16,034 a year. But in Nottingham it is just £10,834. This article documents details of real people’s lives in The Meadows which may shock some. But we […]