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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.

The Sherwood Exchange Newsletter – January 2025Download

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

Dave Thomas

Sherwood Exchange welcomes new committee members

At yesterday’s meeting, the committee of The Sherwood Exchange welcomed three new members. Peter Churchill, Michael Clarke and Cal Phoenix joined the existing committee members, Rachel Jackson, Bola Kehinde, Sue Thomas and Dave Thomas.

We are excited to have our new members on board. They have already started to make some amazing contributions to the future of the organisation. The future direction of the Exchange looks brighter than ever.

Dave Thomas

Sherwood Exchange Strategy

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Over the past few weeks and months, we have been thinking hard about how The Sherwood Exchange is going to develop to continue to meet the needs of people who want to use our Saturday sessions to bring in and take out food, household items and clothing.

We have developed a 3 year strategy, which we are happy to share with you. Visit this page to see the one-page strategy.

Your comments on our feedback form have helped with this, and we always welcome more comments and ideas.

Next Steps

We are now working on the details behind the strategy. Watch this space for more news about this.

Dave Thomas

Feedback please

Dear friends, we’re after your feedback.

We’d like to know what you need most out of the exchange and also whether you would attend wellbeing sessions and a wellbeing hour at the exchange and how much you might donate to attend them.

If you get a moment ( a quick one as it shouldn’t take too long) please could you fill this survey out?

Just follow the link, and viola! Instant feedback given and noted!

TheSherwoodExchange

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.