About Us
Who are we?
The Big Clothes Movement is a CIC based in Cheshire, with a primary mission to save as much clothing as we can from landfill.
Starting out running 'swap shop' events, we quickly became overwhelmed with donations which allowed us to transform our events into a 'fill a bag' approach.
As well as our core 'green' aims supported by our regular events that are open to all, we work alongside our community to provide pre loved clothing to those who need it, when they need it.
Further to this we work closely with a local lady in Zambia who we send parcels to every month made up mostly of clothing or shoes we cannot re home locally, again furthering our ambition to reduce as much textile waste to landfill as possible.
Events
We run pre loved clothing events for both children and women across different locations in Cheshire East and Staffordshire.
Everyone is welcome! The more we can re home the better.
The rules are simple, bring a bag (or two), bring £2 per bag and come and help yourself to anything that you (or a friend or family member) can make use of!
Community support
We already have ties with a number of our local community groups and individuals to give aid with pre loved clothes where ever we can.
We also support local schools and their PTAs in collecting donations, raising school funds and encouraging a environmentally friendly approach to our clothing, all whilst staying true to our original aim of reducing textile waste in landfill.
Zambia Aid
The money we raise helps us to send parcels to communities in Lusaka, Zambia who live in complete poverty.
Packages of clothes and shoes (mainly items we struggle to re home in the UK) are shipped to our contact who distributes them to local people, where the items go on to live a new long life and are gratefully received.
Donations
Donations of woman's and children's clothing can be made to a number of different drop points in Congleton. Please get in touch with us to arrange a drop off. Alternatively donations can be brought to an event (although we do ask where ever possible that these are sorted by size in advance to allow us to put them straight out).
Contact Us
We aim to check emails every 48 hours so do bear with us on a response. We are ran purely by volunteers who all also work, hence the delay you may have in getting a response.