SAVING-THREADS-BOLTON
Selling clothes and supporting charity
🍃Raising funds 🍃
🍃Reducing waste 🍃
🍃Supporting charities🍃
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Hello! We are local ladies who set up a little venture in 2020 to try and help the environment by selling donated clothing and giving the profits to local charities and community projects.
We also help other agencies in supporting families who may need clothing items.
Please consider us for your unwanted, undamaged adults or kids clothing, shoes and bags (just these items please, no bric-a-brac 😊)
Drop off points are in Bromley Cross, Egerton, Bury and Prestwich or we can arrange local collection.
Please check out our social media or contact us for information.
Please help us to continue raising money for local charities, supporting communities and helping the environment.
🍃company number 13717079
🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃Thank you 🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃
ABOUT US
Set up during lockdown in November 2020 we decided to keep us occupied we would set up a online charity shop selling clothing and accessories and donating to different charity every couple of months. Items are available to purchase via ebay and Vinted with proceeds going to local selected charities. Helping out where we can.
🍃 Raising funds🍃Reducing waste🍃Supporting charities🍃
A little bit about Saving Threads CIC (Community Interest Company)...
🍃 Saving Threads CIC was set up in 2020 during the national lockdown.
🍃 It is run by two mums who work full time as key workers, whilst raising young children and also raising money for local charities and community projects.
🍃 We sell preloved clothing on eBay, Vinted and at pop up shops and donate the profits to charity whilst also supporting local charities with clothing for people in need.
🍃 Our ethos is to reduce fashion waste, champion preloved clothing and promote sustainability.
🍃 So far we have donated to: Ronald Macdonald House; Fort Alice; MHIST; Bolton Hospice; Bury Hospice; Baby Basics Bolton and Bury; Endeavour; Back Up North West; HeadStart and many more causes and local charities totalling over £30K for these charities.
OUR CAUSES
Helping out where we can
We work hard everyday to raise what we can for local charities, alongside full time jobs we’ve turned our hobby into a helping hand for charities 😊. We select a different local charities to support- new suggestions welcomed.
BOLTON HOSPICE
In March 2020 we raised £1500 for Bolton hospice, thanks to all the fab donations
MHIST
In feb we raised £1009 for MHIST the local mental health charity
FORT ALICE
In January we raised funds for fort Alice the local charity support victims of domestic violence
RONALD MACDONALD HOUSE
Our 1st charity was Ronald macdonald house which was chosen as they supported a close friend of mine after the birth of her adorable little girl
APRIL’S CHARITY- BABY BASICS
For April 2021 we will be raising fund from our online sales for baby basics Bolton and Bury, will update with total raised at end of month 😊, please get in touch if local and able to donate any clean, good condition clothing or accessories (bags, shoes, scarfs etc) adults or kids. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
BABY BASICS BOLTON AND BURY
So in April and beginning of May we have raised an amazing £1540 for baby basics!
We are going to be doing a lot of behind the scenes work these next couple of weeks, collecting donations, getting organised and building up donations for next few months which is why we have chosen to wait till June to announce the next charity (and the fact we want some help picking a charity)
This is a hobby we do alongside our own full time jobs so hopefully these next few week can help us get organised for more donations and help us continue to raise lots for local charities.
We have also been luckily enough to be able to help out family’s/individuals who required clothing items and we want to continue to help out like this too where we can
So not just raising money for local charities but also giving clothing donations to those in need
Please please continue to support, we appreciate immensely the support we have so far, we are still accepting donations, please get in touch if able to donate and we can give donation points/ arrange collecting if unable to drop off
Thank you all again lots of love from Leander & Rachel @saving threads
SUMMER CHARITIES ☀️☀️
Just a quick update on saving threads venture. We have been busy busy sorting and organising and listing but just wanted to say thanks for all the charity nominations. We are still happily accepting donations of kids and adults clothes. We have decided the next lot of funds will run to September 2021 and will then be split between 3 charities which are
☀️Endeavour https://www.facebook.com/EndeavourDAV/
☀️home start https://www.facebook.com/homestarthost/
☀️back up https://www.facebook.com/BackupCharity/
☀️big thank you for all your support☀️
£3000 FOR THE CHARITIES OVER SUMMER 😊
Wohoooooo 🎉🥳👏🍾🎊🥂👏🍻🥳🎊🎉
So we did it! £3000 raised since June, so £1000 for each of the charities
Backup North West Endeavour Project Home-Start UK
Huge thanks for everyone that has donated, we love what we do and will continue to keep raising.
What’s this space for announcements of our next charity projects 😊. Check out the Facebook pages for regular updates and a peek at the items available.
A YEAR OF SAVING THREADS
We just wanted to say a huge thank you for everyone's support this year; Saving Threads has really taken off and we have managed to raise over £10,000 (yes, it’s amazing) for local charities in the last 12 months. We thank you all immensely for your support and clothing donations; we really could not do it without you.
Please keep considering us for your unwanted adults and kids clothing, shoes, and bags. Let’s hope we can continue to support local charities in 2022!
Saving Threads 2021 fundraising and contributions:
Ronald Macdonald £145 Fort Alice £506 MHIST £1009 Bolton Hospice £1500Baby Basics £1540Endeavour £1000 Back up £1000 Home Start £1000Walmsley Parish Hall £80.85 Urban Outreach £182.55Xmas toy appeal £261.81 Fort Alice (2nd time) £1770Baby Basics essentials items £106
A whopping total of £10,110.21
We have also supported a number of individuals/ services with clothing donations including families fleeing domestic violence, vulnerable adults and supported bury homeless project with school uniforms.
GOING IN TO 2022
Just A few of the charities and causes we have supported so far in 2022, with many more to come, please check out our Facebook and Instagram for more info 🍃
£100 Bolton nhs charity
£50 Emmus
£250 Walmsley’s parish hall
£370 PTA
£1250 Bolton hospice
£1250 bury hospice
£250 saving strays
£50 pet food
£80 Toiletries for Ukraine
£143 urban outreach (May)
£40 worth of raffle donations
SOME OF THE MANY CHARITIES WE HAVE SUPPORTED DURING 2022
£100 Bolton nhs charity
£50 Emmus
£250 Walmsley’s parish hall
£370 PTA
£1250 Bolton hospice
£1250 bury hospice
£250 saving strays
£50 pet food
£80 Toiletries for Ukraine
£143 urban outreach (May)
£40 worth of raffle donations
£50 period poverty
£70 x 5 = £350 jubilee
£198 urban outreach food donations
£100 bleakholt animal sanctuary
£1350 baby basic
£100 walmsley PTA
£80 urban outreach
£50 brain tumour
£1150 endeavour
£1150 back up
£50 motor neurone event
£307 just giving ovarian cancer
£50 bury involvement group (mental health)
OUR 1ST CHARITY NIGHT
PAY WHAT YOU CAN SALES
In Aug 2022 we held our 1st pay what you can sale. Selling children's clothing for whatever amount people could donate. The funds went to support urban outreach the local food bank.
Hopefully more of these events to follow on 2023……
THREADS OBJECTIVE
In July 2022, we launched The Threads Objective project, working with local schools and community groups to educate young people about sustainability, fashion waste and how to repurpose preloved clothing.
At Smithills School in Bolton, we worked with two groups of superb KS3/4 students to create some incredible items out of clothing and material that would otherwise have ended up in landfill.
The students were inspiringly creative, worked diligently and produced some incredible items that the top designers would be proud of. Hopefully these students will go on to change the world, one t-shirt at a time.
If any local school or community groups would like more information about our Threads Objective project then please get in touch.
♻️ Will be differentiated to suit students♻️ All resources provided♻️ Assembly material available
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OUR 2023 CHARITIES
W have now reached over £30,000 raised in our 3 years
2023
28/1 £750 baby basics
14/2 £650 wysup
28/2 £100 Turkey/Syria appeal- Red Cross
11/3 £40 dresses to support fort Alice
14/3 £200 local kids football team
21/3 £200 just giving Ronald macdonald
25/3 £200 smithalls dance group
3/4 £50 Alzheimers charity
11/4 £250 urban outreach
22/4 £50 Bolton wanders in the community (sponsor a mile)
28/4 £750 homeless aid Bolton
19/5 £50 McMillan
31/5 £750 Bolton hospice
21/6 £200 just giving cuddle cot
5/7 £100 bereavement cafe
5/7 £100 Chorley hedgehog rescue
5/7 £100 day trippers Bolton
5/7 £100 Diefers Legacy Animal Rescue
5/7 £100 friends of green fold Bolton
5/7 £100 Millie’s smiles
5/7 £100 dancing for dementia
5/7 £100 helping hearts Flyde
17/7 £100 high hopes for halliwell-being
8/8 £250 urban outreach
16/8 £250 Toms big build
10/9 £100 homeless aid
18/9 £150 saving strays
26/9 £150 bury hospice
3/10 £250 Derain house
27/10 £400 PTA walmsley
7/11 £850 fort Alice
11/11 £50 Turton young farmers (tractor sponsor)
20/11 £100 Unicef
27/11 £150 Bolton community kitchen
1/12 £200 saving strays.
7/12 £200 reach project Bolton
14/12 £200 bereavement cafe
21/12 £200 friends of green fold
AWARD WINNERS
In 2023 we got nominated and won the Charity champion women of the year award for Bolton! An amazing achievement
“Wanting to help where we can”
Rachel & Leander
CONTACT US
Get in touch with Saving-threads to discover more about our work and how to donate. We thank you for your support.
Facebook saving_threads
Instagram @savingthreads
Twitter @savingthreads11
https://www.saving-threads-bolton.com
🍃Email saving_threads@outlook.com
🍃Mobile 07716000539
Bolton, UK
GET TO KNOW OUR TEAM
Meet the Crew
We have a small team of 4 who run saving threads alongside full time works as nurses, teachers and NHS management. The team volunteer their free time to help support local charities and the community, please check out Facebook or Instagram from more info on the team. 🍃
SAVING THREADS
Who we are 😊
We are Rachel & Leander- Please check out Facebook, TikTok or Instagram or drop us a message for more info on the team and saving threads 🍃
