The space where clothing poverty
meets clothing waste

03300 577844
info@sharewearclothingscheme.org

100,987

people supported

Since March 2014

Sharewear Clothing Scheme

(Registered Charity No. 1170084)

155 Tonnes

of clothes diverted from landfill

Since January 2022

Donate Clothing


Clothing and Bedding can be dropped off at our National Processing and Distribution Centre in Nottingham on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 10am-2pm.

Address 

Sharewear Clothing Scheme 
Units D1 and D2 Southglade Business Park 
Cowlairs 
Nottingham  
NG5 9RA 

We accept clothing and bedding in all sizes: 

  • Adult clothing, coats and shoes 
  • Children’s clothing, coats and shoes 
  • Bedding sets, sheets and towels 
  • New or nearly new unstained duvets and pillows 

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. 

Additional Nottingham Donation Points

St Jude’s Church Mapperley- 405 Woodborough Road, Nottingham, NG3 5HE

Mondays 11:15am to 3pm

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.

Clothing and Bedding can be posted to our National Processing and Distribution Centre. If using a courier, please try to arrange delivery for Tuesday to Friday 10am to 2.30pm if possible, to ensure safe receipt. 

Address 

Sharewear Clothing Scheme 
Units D1 and D2 Southglade Business Park 
Cowlairs 
Nottingham  
NG5 9RA 

We accept clothing and bedding in all sizes: 

  • Adult clothing, coats and shoes 
  • Children’s clothing, coats and shoes 
  • Bedding sets, sheets and towels 
  • New or nearly new unstained duvets and pillows 

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.