Refer Someone

• Referring someone in Nottingham
• Attending our Nottingham Access Centre
• Outreach to Sheffield and South Yorkshire  
• Community Franchise Network 

Referring someone in Nottingham

Referrals are closed from the end of the day on Wednesday 18th December and reopen in January with our first session back being Wednesday 8th January. Thank you for your patience.

Sharewear currently has 220 referral partners across Nottinghamshire. If you would like your organisation to become a referral partner, please email info@sharewearclothingscheme.org for an electronic copy of our blank referral voucher that can be used for any individual or family needing clothing support. 

Support workers who already have our referral vouchers, please print and complete a copy with the service user and provide them with this physical copy that can be used from September 2024. Please ensure the address listed is our new Edwalton address, if not please contact info@sharewearclothingscheme.org for our new referral voucher. They are then able to attend our Nottingham Access Centre and have the relevant details to find our centre. Please advise them to bring the voucher with them. There is no need to book an appointment. Our open hours are drop-in sessions.

In the event a service user would not be able to visit our Access Centre themselves we offer a collection option. A completed electronic copy of the referral voucher, including as much detail as possible regarding the clothing items and sizes needed, must be emailed to referrals@sharewearclothingscheme.org. We will then arrange a collection date and time for our volunteer team to prepare the order for. When collecting an order please arrive with the name of the service user being collected on behalf of.

Attending our Nottingham Access Centre

Referrals are closed from the end of the day on Wednesday 18th December and reopen in January with our first session back being Wednesday 8th January. Thank you for your patience.

Please ensure you have a voucher before visiting. Everyone must provide their voucher to our coordinator before they are allowed in.

If you have received a referral voucher, with our new NG12 address, our friendly and supportive team look forward to meeting you from September. Please note we cannot allow children under the age of 12 into our centre due to health and safety restrictions. Please remember to bring your voucher with you when you attend. Each visit requires a new referral voucher. Please do not attend within three months of your last attend except in the case of clothing needs changing, such as a child outgrowing their current size.

Open hours Wednesdays only 10am-3.30pm

Address: Sharewear Clothing Scheme, Unit 8 Roseway House, Wheatcroft Business Park, Landmere Lane, Edwalton, Nottingham, NG12 4DG

Getting there:

Via car- Please use the postcode NG12 4DG to find our site. We are then located past Notcutts Garden Centre down the entirety of Landmere lane towards the last barrier at the end of the road. The barrier will remain open only during our referral sessions Wednesday 10-3:00 there is a large car park available. After 3pm please park on Landmere Lane and walk round to our dedicated entrance.

Public transport-

NCT– As of September 2024 NCT are extending their Edwalton service out to Wheatcroft Island/Notcutts Garden Centre. Please take the Green Route number 7 that can be caught from several places in Nottingham city centre as the number 7 is a city loop route. Please see their website https://www.nctx.co.uk/plan-your-journey for more information. Whilst on the bus please ask the driver for the closest stop to Notcutts garden centre as the destination stop will change as the housing development there is extended.

Trent Barton– Please take your preferred route The Broadmarsh Bus Station, Nottingham Train Station or Trent Bridge County Hall stop where the Trent Barton-The Keyworth bus can be caught to directly arrive at Wheatcroft Island bus stop. This provider do not share tickets across NCT services.

Walking to our Access Centre:

Please cross the road from the bus stops and walk down Landmere Lane. You will walk past the Notcutts Garden Centre, continue past The Campbell Clinic down to the very end of the road to Roseway House in Wheatcroft business park. We are situated in Unit 8 please look for our signage as to which door we use. Our door is separate and is not shared with any other business, the door is off the car park to the side of the building. Please see the site map below.

Referrals are closed from the end of the day on Wednesday 18th December and reopen in January with our first session back being Wednesday 8th January. Thank you for your patience.

When you arrive:

Our door is located in the car park as a separate private entrance, we do not use the shared doors that have intercom on them. Please do not press any of the intercom buttons on main doors as none are linked to Sharewear. Please use our Ring doorbell that is at our dedicated side door on the car park side of the building and a member of staff will be down to greet you. There is signage to indicate which is our door and our dedicated separate doorbell.

Please remember that our neighbours are office spaces and we ask that you are quiet outside the door until we are in our upstairs space. For anyone with a physical limitation please still ring the doorbell on our dedicated door and a staff member will be down to assist you.

Referring someone outside Nottingham

Outreach to Sheffield and South Yorkshire 

In 2021 our team at Sharewear Sheffield supported 3000 local people in their first year of operations. Due to the landlord’s premature eviction from our premises for demolition and resulting lack of renewal of funding, our Sheffield centre closed in December 2021. Since then we have been providing outreach deliveries to organisations across Sheffield and South Yorkshire who need clothing support for their own service users. Using our detailed outreach order form, organisations and constituted groups can receive a monthly delivery of quality checked, sized and categorized clothing which they can then make available to their own service users. 

Email our Outreach co-ordinator for more details on jo@sharewearclothingscheme.org 

We’d prefer to replace our outreach delivery system by empowering communities to save clothes from landfill and offer them to people who need them locally, through our Community Sharewear franchise offer. See Community Sharewear for more details.

Community Franchise Network 

We’re frequently approached by organisations and individuals around the country who need to access free-of-charge clothing for those they support. With over 300,000 tonnes of clothing going to waste in the UK per year, there’s no need for anyone not to be able to access their Right to Clothing. But We need YOUR help to bring free clothing support to those who need it in your own communities.  

When you join our Community Sharewear franchise network you will receive

• Full training and ongoing support from Sharewear’s National Lead and our Regional employees 
• An operating manual/access to our operating portal 
• Template website tailored to your own Community Sharewear 
• Branding artwork (including leaflets, banners, etc.) 
• Your own Sharewear domain email account 
• Your own Sharewear Facebook page 
• Data processing support 
• Substandard clothing collection service 
• Access to fashion industry relationships formed nationally by Sharewear Clothing Scheme, providing brand new high street name clothing. 
• Rails, equipment and start up stock (with subsequent regular stock deliveries until your own clothes donor network becomes more established) 
• Potential access to employability programmes secured by Sharewear Clothing Scheme 
• Support with regional grant applications 

In addition to our one-off franchise fee we ask for a small annual renewal fee, to be applied from your own local fundraising.

Interested?  

Find out more information about first steps at info@sharewearclothingscheme.org 

We can’t wait to welcome you to Team Sharewear! 

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