The space where clothing poverty
meets clothing waste

03300 577844
info@sharewearclothingscheme.org

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120,827

people supported

Since March 2014

Sharewear Clothing Scheme

(Registered Charity No. 1170084)

212 Tonnes

of clothes diverted from landfill

Since January 2022

BREAKING NEWS

We are hiring! Please see details of the Fundraising Officer role we are recruiting for here!

Donate Clothing

We accept clothing and bedding in all sizes: 

  • Adult clothing, coats and shoes 
  • Children’s clothing, coats and shoes 
  • Bedding sets, sheets and towels 

We can take pre-loved clothes as well as new ones, however we will only use clothes which are of a very high quality. Please use our quality rule when deciding what to donate to us: if you wouldn’t wear it yourself or want to see a member of your family in it, please don’t donate it to us. 

Please be aware that we can only accept brand new knickers, pants and socks and tights. We will accept extremely lightly worn bras. 

Please note we DO NOT accept food, toiletries, household goods, furniture, bric-a brac, jewellery, toys or anything not listed above. Our processing team will check to ensure none of these items have been included in your donation as our organisation cannot afford the expense of having to dispose of or relocate these items. Thank you for your co-operation with this. 

Where to donate

Donation Containers:

Edwalton Donation Container

Address

Donation pull in, Landmere Lane, Edwalton, NG12 4DG

Near to our new location we have kindly been provided a pull in for our donation container. Please drive past Notcutts on your right continue on and our pull in is visible from the road just as you pass The Campbell Clinic.

Please be mindful that there is a team working on this stretch of road currently, there may be work vehicles parked that you may need to walk donation bags round during weekdays.

The green container provided to us by WardRobe, is accessible 24/7. Our team collect and process the donations from the container during our next available session. It is emptied every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We cannot accept duvets/pillows via the container due to the space they take up. We also ask that you please place clothing in bags into the container to prevent any damage.

Southglade Business Park

Aldridge Traffic Solutions Units D3-D5 Southglade Business Park, Cowlairs, NG5 9RA

Our green donation bank can now be found on the car park of our neighbour, Alrdidge Traffic Systems UK at Units D3-D5 , the green container provided to us by WardRobe, is accessible 24/7 and monitored via CCTV. Our team collect and process the donations from the container during our next available session. We cannot accept duvets/pillows via the container due to the space they take up. We also ask that you please place clothing in bags into the container to prevent any damage.

St Jude’s Church Mapperley

405 Woodborough Road, Nottingham, NG3 5HE

Green Donation Container accessible 24/7

Our team process the donations from the container that our driver collects. We cannot accept duvets/pillows via the container due to the space they take up. We also ask that you please place clothing in bags into the container to prevent any damage. Please note this container is emptied weekly, usually on a Tuesday, and may become full depending on donation levels.

St Paul’s Church

Boundary Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7DB

Green Donation Container accessible 24/7

The Donation container, located in the corner of the Church car park is emptied by our driver and our team then process these donations. We cannot accept duvets/pillows via the container due to the space they take up. We also ask that you please place clothing in bags into the container to prevent any damage. Please note this container is emptied weekly, usually on a Wednesday, and may become full depending on donation levels.

Manned donation points with set hours

Ravensworth Road Methodist Church- Ravensworth Road, Bulwell, NG6 8FN

Saturdays 10.30am until 12 noon during their coffee morning. Please ONLY donate clothes, shoes and bedding sets (no duvets or pillows please) at this point.

Sherwood Methodist Church

Devon Dr, Sherwood, Nottingham NG5 2EN (on the junction of Devon Drive and Mansfield Road)

Wednesdays 10:00-12:00 only

Please ensure all donations are dropped off in bags, labelling is greatly appreciated but not a requirement.

Please respect their strict drop off times as the space is used for other activities either side of this time.

The Sherwood Exchange

The Place, Melrose Street, Sherwood, NG5 2JP

Saturdays 12:00-2:30 only

The team at The Sherwood Exchange kindly accept clothing, bedding and footwear donations on behalf of Sharewear during their weekly drop in sessions, please see their site https://www.facebook.com/Sherwoodfoodx/ for details on the events they hold also.

Donations by post are currently being arranged in a different way while we prepare to relocate.
Brands and other donors that wish to donate via courier please get in touch via info@sharewearclothingscheme.org and we will coordinate this with you. We are still accepting donations but these need to be more carefully planned over the coming months. Thank you for your patience.

We can take pre-loved clothes as well as new ones, however we will only use clothes which are of a very high quality. Please use our quality rule when deciding what to donate to us: if you wouldn’t wear it yourself or want to see a member of your family in it, please don’t donate it to us. 

Please be aware that we can only accept brand new knickers, pants and socks and tights. We will accept extremely lightly worn bras. 

Please note we DO NOT accept food, toiletries, household goods, furniture, bric-a brac, jewellery, toys or anything not listed above.  Please do only send what we can accept as our organisation cannot afford the expense of having to dispose of or relocate these items. Thank you for your co-operation with this. 

If you would like to donate clothing and bedding to people in economic difficulty in your local community and ensure it stays in that area, being offered to people free-of-charge by referral, please refer to our Community Sharewear franchise information. 

ReLived by Sharewear 

Are you an employer working on your ESG? Do you want to enable your employees to take action for people and planet as part of coming to work? Then ReLived is for you. Participants in ReLived will receive a quarterly certificate stating the amount of clothing they enabled their employees to divert from landfill and how many people this clothing went on to support, and will be able to ‘sponsor’ a school or community venue to be part of the scheme 

More information on how ReLived works here

Textiles are the biggest landfill polluter in the UK yet, at the same time, the 14 million people in poverty in the UK need access to free-of-charge clothing to function and flourish in life. The Right to Clothing is a basic Human Right denied to millions of people across the UK. We are the space where clothing poverty meets clothing waste, offering the dignity of choice to those who access our clothing at our centres or through our outreach to other poverty alleviation organisations.  

DO DONATE: 

  • General Clothing (all ages) 
  • Shoes 
  • Coats 
  • Packs Of New Underwear 
  • Duvet Sets & Sheets 
  • Towels 

DON’T DONATE: 

  • Duvets 
  • Pillows 
  • Handbags 
  • Jewellery & Accessories 
  • Anything that isn’t clothing or light bedding 

If the quality isn’t good enough to wear or use yourself we won’t be able to use it. 

ReLived is the ONLY clothing collection scheme that guarantees the clothing donated here will go to someone in poverty in the UK free of charge.