Two fantastic days in London and Manchester, helping the Shirts for Shelter campaign. Here's a video of the House of Shirts in both cities. read more
The cast of Sister Act have donated a signed shirt to the #shirts4shelter campaign. read more
The cast of Waterloo road donate a signed shirt to the #shirts4shelter House of Shirts read more
Building a house of shirts Day 2
Following on from Monday’s event in Paternoster Square, London, the Shelter/TM Lewin house of shirts is today in Spinningfields, Manchester. Thanks to word spreading online, and support on air from Manchester’s Capital Radio, the shirt donations have been coming into the TM Lewin store here before the house even arrived.
Bags of shirts donated for Shelter to sell in their charity stores, with those donating receiving a money off voucher for a new shirt from TM Lewin, who are also donating £2 from each shirt sold to Shelter.
The team from the Rob Ellis breakfast show come down to the house of shirts in Manchester to show their support for the #shirts4shelter campaign. read more
The TM Lewin and Shelter - #shirts4shelter house of shirts goes up in Manchester read more
Geoff Quinn CEO of T M Lewin with Leon Doyle ex apprentice at house of shirts and further photos from the day in London. read more
Lunchtime in Paternoster Square in the City. read more
Helping support the Shirts4Shelter campaign, Ben Scotchbrook gives the shirt off his back to TM Lewin to help the charity Shelter read more
Donate via text
You can donate individually to Shelter via Just Text Giving. It’s FREE to text and you can donate however much you want. Simply text the unique code “SHRT11”, followed by a space, and the amount you want to donate (£1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10) to phone number 70070.
TM Lewin Community Blog about Shirts4Shelter
September is going to be a very exciting month here at T.M.Lewin as we are working on one of the biggest charity campaigns we have ever run - National Shirt Exchange Week. We are really excited to be working with Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, to help them raise much needed funds. Click on the title of this post above to read more.
A video from Laura Kidd about the team at Creative Trust making the Shirt Houses for Shirts4Shelter. read more
Why not add a Shirts4Shelter twibbon to your avatar and show your support for our campaign. Here’s an example of what it looks like: You can add a Twibbon to your avatar by clicking right here read more
Photos tagged Shirts4Shelter on Flickr. read more
The Housing Question – Travelling North & Shirts4Shelter
A post by Steve Lawson on moving out of London and unaffordable housing. This is the week we say goodbye to London. Well, at least, the week we cease to call it home. We’re off to Birmingham, since the cost of being in London in no way reflects the benefits of still being here.
Sometimes we all need a prod in the right direction
With so many causes needing our support, it’s easy for some of the simplest ways to help charities to fall off our radar. There’s certainly no harm in expanding the story, making the action of helping feel like we’re part of some bigger action. This is why shirt manufacturer TM Lewin have teamed up with [...]
Interview with Kate Pollard from Shelter about the National Shirt Exchange. read more
Here is the final video in a four part series showing why we have partnered with the homelessness charity Shelter and the people we will be helping with the Shirts4Shelter campaign during National Shirt Exchange Week. read more
Here is the third video in a four part series showing why we have partnered with the homelessness charity Shelter and the people we will be helping with the Shirts4Shelter campaign during National Shirt Exchange Week. read more
Here is the first video in a four part series showing why we have partnered with the homelessness charity Shelter and the people we will be helping with the Shirts4Shelter campaign during National Shirt Exchange Week. read more
Here is the first video in a four part series showing why we have partnered with the homelessness charity Shelter and the people we will be helping with the Shirts4Shelter campaign during National Shirt Exchange Week. read more
Here is the National Short Exchange press release, a partnership between Shelter and TM Lewin. read more
Please help us build this Shirts4Shelter site.
We are using this site to collect content and document activity around Shirts4Shelter – we’re hoping that it will be a valuable resource to support the Shelter/TM Lewin joint project. You can join in by using the hashtag #shirts4shelter on any tweets, audioboos or photos and we will include them in the site.
Interview with T.M.Lewin C.E.O, Geoff Quinn about the National Shirt Exchange and their partnership with Shelter. read more
Shelter is a charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing. We do this by giving advice, information and advocacy to people in housing need, and by campaigning for lasting political change to end the housing crisis for good. read more
A host of British actors and comedians have teamed up with Shelter to help spread the word about our campaign. Sean Lock, Mike Fielding, Oliver Chris and Sally Bretton star in a short film about the danger posed by rogue landlords. Despite the amusing script and characters, the horrifying conditions shown in the film are the sad reality for thousands of people in this country. read more
A very popular video from the TM Lewin community site explaining how exactly you should iron a shirt. read more
Shirts 4 Shelter
T.M. LEWIN HAVE PARTNERED WITH SHELTER TO HELP RAISE VITAL FUNDS FOR PEOPLE IN HOUSING NEED
The National Shirt Exchange Week launches on Monday 26 September. Every shirt donated will be given directly to Shelter to sell in their shops. You can go one step further in supporting Shelter by then purchasing a new shirt from your nearest T.M. Lewin store and £2 will be donated to Shelter. The money raised will be used to help people in desperate housing need so that they can find and keep a home. Please support the campaign.
T.M.Lewin is proud to launch National Shirt Week in partnership with Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity. With a large proportion of people owning a surplus of shirts that hang unwanted and unloved at the back of the wardrobe, T.M.Lewin is encouraging you to give your unwanted shirts a new home whilst also raising money for Shelter.
Customers who are unable to visit a T.M.Lewin store can still take part and donate, as T.M.Lewin will be running the shirt exchange initiative online at www.tmlewin.co.uk. Online shoppers will be sent a donation bag enabling them to take their unwanted shirts into their local Shelter store.
To celebrate National Shirt Exchange Week, T.M.Lewin will be building the biggest ever house made of shirts in Paternoster Square, London on Monday 26th and in Spinningfields, Manchester on Wednesday 28th September.
The houses will be at both locations from 8am to 6.30pm and there may even be a few celebrities donating their unwanted shirts throughout the day too, all to help raise money for Shelter.