Dressability is delighted to have been featured in the Swindon Link this week with a piece highlighting our plea to local businesses to donate surplus branded clothing for the homeless.
Here at Dressability, we offer our specialist clothing adaptation service for the disabled to as many people who need it as we can, including working with homeless organisations across Swindon, creating more than a hundred blankets to help keep the vulnerable warm over winter.
We’ve partnered with charities such as Night Shelter and Christmas Cares to provide support for the homeless during these especially difficult months.
If any businesses across Swindon have any surplus clothing at all, we would love to receive them as donations so we can de-brand them and use them to help the homeless.
Dressability manager, Sharon Tombs, told the Swindon Link:
“It was one of my trustees Alison Wraight (C3 Marketing) who came up with the idea as she works in marketing. Essentially there are so many businesses and printers out there who would have ‘never been worn’ branded clothing that they could easily donate to us.
“At the moment there is a lot of talk about how we shouldn’t waste resources and this is one way that these bits of clothing can actually be put to good use rather than heading for the landfill.
“We have a team of volunteers here and what we would do is then debrand the clothing, which can range from hoodies to T-shirts or polo shirts, and then hand them out to where they are needed through homeless organisations.
“There are loads of businesses in Swindon who will have this excess stock and we would be only too happy to take them off their hands in the knowledge that they are going to a good cause.”
If you have a business in the local area and would like to help, you can call us on 01793 512878 or use our contact form on the site and we will be happy to talk to you.
