Ladies Circle

This year Wotton Circle has been supporting Gloucestershire Young Carers. 

Gloucester Young Carers is a registered charity working with young carers and their families.  They aim to raise awareness, provide breaks and develop support networks for children and young people (up to age 25, average age 12) who have a caring responsibility for a family member.

This was a novel departure for us this year, because, what they really wanted was not money, but profile raising within the local community.

So it was that last October, Wotton Circle teamed up with Déjà vu vintage clothing, a vintage clothing outlet located within the Gloucester Antiques Centre, to host a vintage fashion show in the hall of the local primary school.

The event was a sell out.  With a week to go before the event, the Wotton Circlers and local shop keepers who had agreed to do the modelling were nervously aware that 150 people would be watching, and listening to the story of Gloucester Young Carers.

Wotton Circle didn’t stop at doing some of the modelling.  We promoted the event, sold the tickets, put together the stage and goody bags, sourced the raffle prizes, welcomed the guests, served the drinks, made and served puddings, sold the raffle tickets, helped to sell the clothes after the modelling and cleared it all away at the end of the night.  The combined effort raised of the order of £800 and raised the profile of both Gloucester Young Carers and Déjà vu.

That wasn’t the end of our support though.  Now we’re promoting the sports relief mile locally (Gloucester Young Carers will benefit from some of the funds raised), and the Gloucester Young Carers ‘We Cook We Care’ recipe book that is available for only £5 from

http://www.glosyoungcarers.org.uk/Leaflets/Gloucestershire%20young%20carers%20Order%20Form.pdf

…and the total money raised as we approach the end of the year is of the order of £1500.

We would like to say a BIG Thank You to all our members and friends who have helped make this success possible.