23-05-2020
Frontline Force From Burberry to at-home stitchers, the Yorkshire fashion army scrubs up to make vital PPE
Yorkshire Born & Thread have been busy helping the NHS with a great group of creatives made up of other professional seamstresses and home sewers. Raising funds to produce scrubs and other ppe for local keyworkers in need during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
See the full article by Stephanie Smith in The Yorkshire Post, Lifestyle Online
Lisa from Yorkshire Born & Thread
"Thank-you to all who have donated to our Go fund me page, to allow us to keep making for the NHS & other local keyworkers, We will continue to help for as long as we can do and as long as our NHS needs us to.”
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sewing-support-to-the-nhsyorkshire-born-amp-thread
"I would also like to thank the group of professional and hobby seamstresses we've been working with which includes: Julie Stubbs, Danielle McGilloway, Gill Smith, Terri Whitford, Maria Grzywacz, Jackie Ineson, Cathy Nixon, Kate Thompson, Julie Helliwell, Priscilla Dalton, Wendy Hawkins, Karen Taylor, Pammie Thornton, Kelly Clark, Barbara Searby, Karen Durnell, Georgina Williams, Judith Hobson, Marion Walker and Karen Pratt.
