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Calling all Seamsters for Bag Making Workshop

If you are handy at sewing, cutting or pinning or have any old curtains or other fabric at home, the Penistone Carry-a-Bag Campaign would like to hear from you. They want your help to reduce the number of plastic bags in Penistone by providing alternative fabric bags.

 As well as the free bags that will be provided to every household by the Co-operative, ‘Penistone Carry-A-Bag’ want to sell homemade bags with their logo on them to promote the scheme. They want to make these with re-used material that is already in the Penistone area. The money made will be split between Barnsley Hospice and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, who are currently organising clear-ups of rubbish from our beaches (a lot of which is plastics).

The group is organising a bag making workshop on Thursday 5th June from 5-9pm at St Andrews Church Hall and want to recruit people to turn recycled fabrics into durable shopping bags. People skilled in cutting out, pinning and machining are needed to convert old curtains and bedspreads into cloth bags which can be used instead of plastic carrier bags.  All equipment and materials will be supplied, although please contact us in advance if you can bring your own sewing machine. The workshop will be rounded off with tea and cakes at 8.30pm.

Barnsley Hospice will be supplying some recycled fabric, but we will still need more – please drop any donations off at the Barnsley Hospice Shop.

People interested in helping the Penistone Carry-a-Bag campaign at the bag making workshop should ring 01226 790713, email penistonefoe@hotmail.co.uk or look for more information on www.penistonecarryabag.co.uk.

The Penistone Carry-a-Bag campaign is working with the local community and retailers to cut down the use of free, one-trip carrier bags in Penistone.  The campaign will be launched in the summer.  Every household in the district will receive a free cloth bag to use instead of plastic carrier bags. The bags will be provided free by the Co-operative Group.  Support has also come from Barnsley MBC Waste Management, Penistone and District Community Partnership, Penistone Town Council, Barnsley Primary Care Trust, Barnsley Hospice and Michael Clapham MP.  Nine out of ten residents and most of Penistone’s retailers are backing the Campaign.

Commenting Rachel Gibbons of the campaign said:

“We would like to encourage local sewing enthusiasts to come along and help us create as many shopping bags as possible.  It should be a fun and enjoyable afternoon and a chance to get involved in the Penistone Carry-a-Bag Campaign.  Every bag we make has the potential to replace 100s of plastic carrier bags during their life and contribute to cutting waste and litter and protecting wild life.  Please phone or email if you want to know more”.

A trawl for litter in the River Don and its banks by supporters of  the Penistone Carry-a-Bag Campaign found 112 plastic carrier bags and 20 bin bags full of other waste which mostly comprised other plastic waste from about 300 metres of the river at Springvale