Crafting For Communities

Items that are useful, or bring joy and comfort to many communities and people around us. Our charity registration number is - 1194136

Who are we and what do we do? We make hand made items for our community. We donate nearly everything we make. We have make and distribute around 3-5k items a month for our community. Some items we ask for donations, so we can make more items for our community. Items have included:
� Almost 3000 sets of scrubs
� Scrubs bags
� Ear savers / mask extenders
� Items for acorns children’s hospice
� Items for Mary Stevens hospice
� Teddies given to all admitted children to RHH, new cross hospital, city hospital, Sandwell hospital
� Heart pairs to care homes, icu and schools
� Dementia items to all the borough care homes
� Hand sanitiser to care homes and schools around the borough through the kind donation of a local business
� Face masks for the vulnerable and community groups who need them to stay safe
� Items for neonatal units at RHH, City. Sandwell, Good Hope, Heartlands and new cross hospitals. Plus items for the various departments at B*H
Plus so much more. We have a wonderful FB group for those who make, so we can chat, share advice etc. We provide all the materials to make the items for our community. Including thread and occasionally needles. We value your time and expertise. So we don’t expect our makers to buy materials, unless they want to. We have hubs all around the borough with wool, kits and knitting / crochet patterns to borrow. We are making the following on an on-going basis:
Hero bears / nurse or teddies and dolls. They each get sent with a material bag. And are given to every child who is admitted. Toys - Knitted, crochet or stitched
Worry Monsters
Worry Worms
Heart Pairs
Sensory Cuffs and Mats
We then have special projects. These come as kits, pre cut with everything in you need to make a certain number of items. We are currently supporting lots of charities including Women’s Aid, Acorns Children’s Hospice, Mary Stevens Hospice plus so many more on a regular or occasional basis. There are various tutorials / patterns in the topics section of our makers group. These are the hubs locations. Cradley Heath
Halesowen
Kidderminster
Kingswinford
Netherton
Pedmore
Penn
Perton Library
Rowley Regis
Sedgley
Stambermill
Wall Heath
West Bromwich
Withymoor
Wollaston
Wolverley
Wombourne
Woodsetton
Wordsley

We use some awesome volunteer drivers, they make sure we keep running and get things where they need to be. And lastly, in order to raise funds for all of the materials, we sell (ask for monetary donations) for some of the items make. And we are always looking for ways to get funding. To join our merry maker click on the Group button. Trish Bradley