Sewing Angels Provides PPE to Vital NHS Workers

For the Love of Scrubs is a countrywide group made up of volunteer sewists donating their time and skills in order to create vital PPE for NHS workers. 

There has been a massive shortage of PPE since the Coronavirus began, so the initiative was set up to try and combat this. Their goal is to ensure all PPE requests from NHS workers across the country are met; which has required a nationwide effort as a collective, needing an enormous amount of organisation, time and community kindness.

The initiative now has a series of regionalised sub-groups due to the vast number of volunteers and PPE requests. For the Love of Scrubs Birmingham focus their efforts on helping the NHS Birmingham based medical practices, hospitals, care homes and wider who are on the list willing to accept their donations.

As this is a massive undertaking, the sewing angels have been resourceful in finding items that may be of use in the PPE making process. One volunteer discovered that her Brewers paint stirrer given to her at the P&D show last year was the best tool to achieve perfect corners when turning out masks!