⚠️Sadly we accept had to take the decision to suspend our Wedding Clothes Exchange due to the furnishings of the electric current COVID-19 pandemic.

If you are really keen to donate your gown for piffling ones who could not stay for the fourth dimension beingness please hang on to your gown at your dwelling.

You should store your gown at habitation wrapped in acid free tissue newspaper and place inside a secure pet, moth and damp complimentary enviornment.

Hopefully as more is learned about this current pandemic the advice from Authorities around donated apparel volition exist updated.

Nosotros will post on this page to let you lot know when we are able to reopen our Wedding Dress Exchange.

Thankyou for the involvement in donating your apparel to the states, you can practise so by joining our Wedding Dress Exchange group on Facebook.

We often get questions on how to exercise this so the post-obit information should answer lots of your questions.

Little Baby & Co Guidelines For Wedding ceremony Dress Donors.

When information technology comes to donated dresses we really are looking for something very special.

Little Baby & Co specialises in providing layettes for babes born still before eighteen weeks. Most of our finished gowns volition easily fit into the palm of your one hand. We love Charmeuse [bridal satin] and can use gowns that are mostly made from this material. Pure bridal silk charmeuse is used by LB & Co crafters to make wraps and tiny LB & Co signature gowns for the nigh delicate of little mites. Charmeuse with a soft satin finish in, all polyester, or a blend of fibers can be used to creat various sized gowns, shawls, wraps and fabric dignity caskets .

Photo examples of acceptable gown tin be found on our Facebook grouping.

This next flake is very important.

Please READ.

Lilliputian Infant & Co is a UK modest charity focussed on supporting families facing babyloss nether xx weeks. Only to give you an thought for every baby who dies around the time of their birth 62 babies in the Uk will dice before 24 weeks. Thats 684 babies per mean solar day every twenty-four hours in the U.k.. Over a year that can leave 249,660 families grieving the loss of their infant earlier 24 weeks…..

Our funds are limited and nosotros always give priority to grieving families and hospitalsouth. We simply cannot cover the cost of postage and packing to send a gown on to a volunteer seamstress, and then we have set up the Nuptials Clothes Exchange to lucifer a seamstress with a Apparel donor.

You may provide the location of your gown by your postal town and only IF a volunteer seamstress lives at that place might it exist possible to arrange for a private collection. Most of our seamstresses, if they are able to accept a gown, will need you to send that gown by mail to them.

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Our seamstresses can NOT brand keepsakes to send to y'all made from the dress you lot send, however if you lot are offered this you are more than than welcome to take. If you are in the sad state of affairs of donating your wearing apparel in retentivity of your own beloved babe who has died do permit the volunteer seamstress who accepts it know. If they accept enough time available they may exist able to make a little something to send to you for your own baby's memory box, but this will be an agreement betwixt yourself and kind etiquette would be to offer the cost of postage. Lilliputian Baby & Co can agree no responsibleness for any issues that may arise.

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Based on the costs of post if you lot do Non live in the UK we recommend that you check the costs of both packing and sending your dress on to the Uk. The costs can be prohibitivaly expensive and there may be a charity in your own country who would love to accept your gown.

We tin can only take dresses that meet the post-obit strict criteria:

👰🏼🤵🏻 Must be a traditional wedding dress color: white, Ivory, foam,champagne or oyster. We cannot have dresses in any other colours.

👰🏼🤵🏻 Obviously or very small flat patterned fabric only. If the fabric is patterned delight could you provide a photo of the design adjacent to a 2p money to bear witness the size of the pattern blueprint.

👰🏼🤵🏻 We are lamentable merely we cannot brand use of beaded or similarly adorned material. The babes our gowns fit tin can be snuggled in the palm of ane of your easily and they are very delicate. Beadwork and similar embelishments no thing how small-scale will damage their frail skin. 😞

👰🏼🤵🏻 Dresses that do Not have a full tulle/lace/similar skirt. Once again we but cannot employ these fabrics to create gowns for babies under 18 weeks. For the babes we apparel these fabrics are just too rough for their very delicate skin.

👰🏼🤵🏻 The gown must not be badly discoloured. If your unsure please post clear photos of any discolouration marks.

👰🏼🤵🏻 Dresses with dirt marks around the hem and sleeves are fine, there is no need to accept your dress dry cleaned but nosotros would be grateful if you wish to run it through a cold 20 degrees cycle if the seamstress asks you to do and then. Mud and similar black marks around the hem and train will nearly e'er launder out and because are gowns are so tiny if they don't we can simply piece of work around them. Delight post articulate photos of any large marks and then our volunteer seam-stresses can advise if the dress tin can be used to make LB & Co's layettes and gowns.

👰🏼🤵🏻 Due to hygiene reasons if your dress has any signs of mildew or mould from storage nosotros will be unable to use it. Hopsitals will not take items fabricated from fabrics damaged by mould or mildew.

IF YOU THINK YOUR Apparel MEETS THE GUIDELINES Delight Join OUR Apparel EXCHANGE GROUP TO Assistance FIND A SEAMSTRESS TO DONATE YOUR Dress TO, THE LINK IS BELOW: their

Wedding Dress Commutation

Babyloss groups that create gowns may non be able to take all the gowns that are offered to them but don't worry, there are other ways your gown could go on to help others.

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Donate to your local Children's Hospice Shop to assistance enhance funds for families of children with life limiting conditions.

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Donate to a Souvenir Of A Wedding or alternatively Wish For A Wedding and make memories to cherish for a Uk couple facing concluding affliction.

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Want to brand a deviation for families facing a crisis? The Carmine Cross accept donated Wedding and bridesmaid Dresses.