January 2025 Update


WELCOME! Greetings and welcome to the first ever monthly Sherwood Exchange newsletter! This newsletter aims to help keep you informed about the goings on at The Exchange, with latest news and upcoming events, while also offering some useful advice and tips that may help you along the way.

Our food is staying fresher and usable for longer, thanks to a wonderful donation of a large fridge last month. The ‘retail sized’ fridge created surprise and some commotion, as the door frame had to be removed and needed four people to put it in place.

The fridge not only allows us to store more fresh food, but has also means we have now been permitted to receive surplus stock from FareShare Midlands – a charity who ensure that surplus supermarket food is prevented from becoming waste by redistributing it to community groups such as our Exchange.

Upcoming events

All events are taking place at The Place, 2A Melrose St,
Sherwood:
– Every Saturday 12noon – 2.30pm: Sherwood Exchange OPEN
– Sat 1st February: 11am: Mindfulness for all with Rachel Jackson
– Sat 8th February 11am: Radiator sheet/blanket-making class
– Sat 15th February 11am: Reiki with Krista Nicholson
– Sat 22nd February 11am: Radiator sheet/blanket-making class

Thank you

We’d like to give a huge thanks to all our supporters. Your donations are so valuable. This month’s donors include:
– FareShare
– The Place Activity Centre
– ShareWear
– The Rotary Club Beeston
– The V Spot
– Sainsbury’s Arnold and Gedling
– The Arabic School
– Himmah
– Heron Foods
– Martin Jerome Kelly

Contact us

The Sherwood Exchange
The Place Activity Centre
2a Melrose Street
Sherwood
Nottingham
NG5 2JP


thesherwoodexchange@outlook.com
Open on Saturdays 12:00 noon – 2:30 pm

Welcome to The Sherwood Exchange

Welcome to the Sherwood Exchange, where unwanted items can be given a second chance to become another person’s wanted items. Whether you have surplus tinned or storecupboard food items, pet food, clothing, shoes, toiletries, sanitary protection or kids toys to donate or you just need to visit to take what somebody else has donated, you are warmly welcomed to the Sherwood Exchange. Your visit is essential to help us all reduce food and household waste and to help our planet. Your support and willingness to join others in sharing is equally important right now to help us rebuild a caring community where we can prevent people suffering hardship and isolation or having to access services at crisis point.

We all have something we can give one another, whether that be surplus food and items or time to help ensure we all have equal access to essential food and household items. We also host a garden exchange outside the Place Activity Centre where you are free to visit to donate or take free garden plants and items.