It has been an exciting start to 2025 as we explore how we can grow our support for people living in financial hardship in the UK. Last Autumn we moved our Witney sewing hub out of a local hotel supporting asylum seekers and moved to a local community hall. It’s been an adventure to see what a difference that can make. We’ve now started 5 sewing hubs across the county, all linked to the local church, where we can be a practical and spiritual support to people interested in sewing in these local communities.
We’ve made all sorts of things but I think the highlight has been these wonderful rag dolls which we intend to continue to dress in different cultural outfits.
We had a great time at our first trade event of 2025, taking our first event sales for this year. Our hope is to go to a few more events this coming year so maybe we’ll see you when we are out and about.
And probably the most exciting activity this Spring is the development of our Mothers’ Union collaboration dress, to celebrate 150 years of the Mothers’ Union in 2026. My friend Sazgar is busy sewing as I type! Look out for the new dress on the MU website as they launch it a the commissioning service for the worldwide president at St-Martins-in-the-Field on Monday 24th March.
If you pray then our requests are for:
- our international hubs to grow in enterprise as we explore ways to support this… with old denim jeans
- our UK hubs to places of peace where we are able to share love with one another.
- our links with corporate organisations, who might be interested in having similar dresses to the Mothers’ Union.