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

Refer Someone


Referring someone in Nottingham

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. 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 info@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

From January 2023 at our new location merged with our National Processing and Distribution Centre.

Units D1 and D2 Southglade Business Park, Cowlairs, NG5 9RA

Open hours Wednesday and Friday 10:30-2:00

If you have received a referral voucher our friendly and supportive team look forward to meeting you. Our drop-in sessions run on Wednesdays and Fridays 10:30-2:00 with no appointment needed. Please note we cannot allow children under the age of 11 into our centre due to health and safety restrictions. Please remember to bring your voucher with you when you attend. If you have attended our centre in the past you will be recorded in our system and will not need to obtain a new 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.

We can be found at our combined centre at Units D1 and D2 Southglade Business Park, Cowlairs, NG5 9RA. Turn off Hucknall Road onto Rigley drive and immediately left onto Cowlairs. The nearest Nottingham City Transport bus routes are 15,16 or 17. If you are unable to visit our new location please get back in touch with the support worker who referred you and ask for assistance.

Referring someone outside Nottingham

Outreach to Sheffield and South Yorkshire 

Sharewear Sheffield Facebook

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.

Outreach to the West Midlands  

Birmingham Community Sharewear Socials

As of September 2022 we are providing outreach deliveries to organisations across Birmingham and the West Midlands 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.

You can join the group of people trying to bring the Right to Clothing to the West Midlands by following our dedicated social media channels.

Outreach to Greater Manchester 

Manchester Community Sharewear Socials

We’re hoping to work with other organisations to bring our first Community Sharewear Franchise to Greater Manchester. You can join the group of people trying to bring the Right to Clothing to Manchester by following our dedicated social media channels.

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.  

Our franchise network is designed to effectively bring even more of the UK’s unwanted, unworn, unsold or discarded clothing – of as-new and brand new quality– to those who most need it. By working with faith groups, community organisations and groups, we hope to empower communities to create full access to the Right to Clothing locally. 

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! 

Facebook pages for outside of Nottingham


Manchester Community Sharewear

Birmingham Community Sharewear

Sheffield Clothing Scheme