Mend & Repair Your Clothes Session – with ‘Everyone Needs Pockets’ at SHARE
Holes in your jumper? Broken fastener on your favourite bit of clothing? Things lying in your cupboard waiting for that mend? Here’s your opportunity to fix them …
Come and mend your clothes with help from the talented volunteer stitchers and darners from the Everyone Needs Pockets Clothing and Textile Reuse Network. We will help you with your repair, showing you what to do and helping you with the mend.
Future Shed, SHARE How To and the ENP network have joined up to run a monthly clothing repair workshop at the SHARE shop, on the last Saturday of the month between 11.30am and 1.30pm.
Come and enjoy a relaxed social atmosphere of mending your clothes, with free drinks and biscuits to help! These sessions are designed for all abilities and many different kind of repairs. Please answer the questions as you book in, so we know how best to help you!
What we can help with:
– Buttons, fasteners, zips
– Taking up hems and some fitting adjustments
– Visible mending and darning
– Advice on how you might repair a piece of clothing
Your hosts:
Everyone Needs Pockets is a growing network of 50+ makers, designers, stitchers, knitters, supporters and researchers. The network focuses on how we can work together to grow projects and enterprises that reuse textiles, save carbon and landfill and increase our wellbeing: revamp, repurpose, reuse, repair.
SHARE How-to is a new community space at SHARE Library of Things in the town centre and has been specifically designed and made available for skills and resource sharing.
Future Shed Frome offers practical support to get green and healthy initiatives and enterprises off the ground through building networks, connecting people and start-up coaching. Share ideas, get support to bring them to life, make new connections and learn new skills so that we’re all better equipped for a greener, healthier future. Future Shed is part of Edventure, an organisation supporting community entrepreneurship in Frome.
This session is part of Green & Healthy Frome a partnership programme with Edventure, Frome Medical Practice and Frome Town Council. It is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund’s Climate Action Fund.
For all enquiries, contact:
Sue Palmer – sue@edventurefrome.org
Jill Philips – everyoneneedspockets@gmail.com
Facilities:
The SHARE Library of Things is in the centre of Frome. We will be seated around a table and at benches. There is a toilet available.
Accessibility:
The SHARE shop is accessible via a small ramp from street level. There is no accessible loo in the SHARE shop, but there are some a few hundred yards away in the nearby market car park.
Please contact us to discuss access needs and we will do our best to help.
Please note:
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