Sew Positive, Cambridge (2026)

21/01/2026

Still can’t quite believe it… Sew Positive has been awarded just over £205,000 of National Lottery Reaching Communities funding! 💙🧵

This multi-year grant helps us keep doing what we love - bringing people together through sewing and creativity to support wellbeing, reduce isolation and build connection here in Cambridge.

We’re still a small grassroots charity, but this gives us the stability to grow and keep our services consistent, creative and community-led.

Feeling very grateful - and yes, wearing my Christmas T-shirt that says “Girls just wanna have funding.” Seems it worked! 🙌✨

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us so far, to our volunteers and participants, and to The National Lottery Community Fund for believing in Sew Positive. 💛

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12/01/2026

Due to injury we have two last minute fundraising places for the !

If you’d like to support our small charity* and join our Running Stitch team please get in touch on the link below. They will get snapped up quickly!

*£250 fundraising is required and run is on Sunday 8 March 2026!

06/12/2025

It’s the today! Come and support our charity on Gwydir Street with gifts made by our tutor Colin! 🎄🎁💝🤩.

All profits from this sale go to 👏🏻

28/11/2025

We were delighted to get a sneak preview of the at the preview evening last night. As part of our Community Membership, we were able to take our Chair of Trustees, a volunteer and participant. We also met up with some of our other participants who took part in research for the Botanic’s too. The lights were marvellous, but we were also totally taken by the marvellous crocheted flowers in the shop by which we’d love to learn to create at our peer support group! 🤩🌲🪾🧶🧵

18/11/2025

It’s a wrap! Well actually, it’s a to celebrate the end of our first course, complete with a fantastic spread of cultural food to share 🍽️

This amazing group have all made pyjama bottoms from upcycled fabric and duvets, and some have made tops to match, thanks to our wonderful tutor and our volunteers. Thank you for the fabulous patterns!

Our group features participants from UK, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Sudan, British Bengali and British Hong Kong, all learning to sew together, bringing communities together though support and skills. ❤️🤩🧵🪡

15/11/2025

We had an incredible time at our Saturday Sewing Cafe! 22 people came together to stitch, support, and share skills. Special thanks to for leading a workshop on celebrating untold stories through quilting. We love how our cafe brings people together across cultures, ages, and skills. It's amazing to see participants grow in confidence and share creative joy. Jahnavi's quilt project is truly inspiring - a powerful way to document history and celebrate the beauty of expression through stitching. 🤩🧵🪡

14/11/2025

Today one of our participants led a peer support session on ‘Sell Your Work’ which sat brilliantly alongside the sessions we are running with our Ukrainian friends.

If you like the idea of making, why not pitch your idea to and be part of the on 6 December? Link in comments 🤩

12/11/2025

It’s been a busy few weeks in our hive, so woops we missed out on posting some of the amazing progress everyone has been making. So you won’t want to miss taking a look at these!

We ran our first Sell Your Work session this evening with brilliant artist with our Ukrainian friends who were brimming with creative ideas. Next week is all about pricing and personal statements as artists 🤩

Over in Men’s Hems, some FABULOUS shirts are being completed from upcycled duvets and other pre-loved fabrics, while the festive kick off has started with some stocking making and decorations. 🎄

And our Sew Practical group have been busy making pyjama bottoms from upcycled duvets, using the brilliant Jaimie pattern…look out for our to celebrate the end of the course next week! As part of the course, which has brought together different cultures and ethnicities, we’ve looked at exploring these and how we all respond differently, so we designed an activity for folks to talk through different areas in between making, cutting, chatting and making tea! 🪡

Our K2Tog group is seeing people completing their first knitting and crochet projects in just a few sessions, with so much great peer skill-sharing, really grateful to our peer leaders Zamina and 🧶

It’s a buzzing week and it’s not over yet…another of our amazing participants, Lynn, is running her own Sell Your Work session on Friday from her lived experience for other members of our group, and then we have Saturday Sewing Cafe this Saturday with fabulous artist so do sign up if you live in Cambridge City or are a Ukrainian in City or South Cambs ☕️

Phew! You’ll find us at

31/10/2025

Spooky day at with our wonderful volunteers helping to give families in CB4 a fun half term activity. Creativity helps families and different generations to bond, and pass on skills.

Today we used an upcycled duvet cover which we dyed, and other fabric scraps to make spooky bags to decorate and spooky badges. 86 people attended the event, including our new volunteer Kathy!

Huge thanks to all our volunteers today, Helen M also donated a signed copy of her book for the Red Hen raffle!

24/10/2025

Ми запускаємо короткий пілотний курс — «Як продавати свої творчі роботи» — цього разу лише для наших українських друзів. Флаєр додається, будь ласка, забронюйте за синім посиланням вище якомога швидше, щоб уникнути розчарувань!

Цей курс фінансується спеціально для підтримки українців, які відновлюють своє життя тут. Багато хто не може працювати у своїй звичній професії, тому ми сподіваємось, що це допоможе знайти нові способи заробляти завдяки своїй творчості 🌻

Ми розуміємо, що може бути прикро, коли не всі курси відкриті для всіх, але часто це залежить від фінансування, а не від нас. Дякуємо, що зберігаєте ту теплу й турботливу атмосферу Sew Positive та підтримуєте одне одного на різних життєвих шляхах 💕

Якщо пілот буде успішним, ми розглянемо можливість запропонувати щось подібне для всіх наступного року!

Курс проведе Рейчел Дормер, яка вже викладала його раніше у CCA 🎨

💛 💙 Hi everyone!
Next up, we’re running a short pilot course - “How to Sell Your Creative Work” - just for our Ukrainian friends.

This one’s specially funded to support Ukrainians rebuilding their lives here. Many can’t do their usual jobs, so we hope it helps them explore small ways to earn from their creativity 🌻

We know it can feel hard when not everything is for everyone, but funding often decides this - not us. Thanks for keeping that caring Sew Positive spirit and supporting each other through our different journeys 💕

If it goes well, we’ll look at offering something similar for everyone next year!

Led by Rachel Dormer, who’s run a similar course before with CCA 🎨

24/10/2025

Things are getting in the SP Hive 👻🎃

Next week during half term, we will be joining our friends at to make Spooky Bags and Badges at their .

Volunteer Helen M has been in her element as a children’s author in addition to volunteering, and has helped create some fabulous bags from a dyed upcycled duvet cover, some are ready to decorate, and some can be stitched together on the day for more confident stitchers! ♻️

We hear the event is already fully booked but are looking forward to meeting everyone and spreading some spooky wellbeing for families in CB4. 🤩❤️🧵👻🎃

19/10/2025

Some of our amazing fundraisers met us at for a training meet.

In addition to raising vital funds for our charity at the , it was a fantastic reminder of our powerful community with our runners being made up of:

Faye: an original mask-sewing volunteer from
Karin: who ran the Manchester Marathon for us and then became a Sew Positive trustee
Isla: running her second half marathon for us (and a brilliant knitter!)
Cait: a volunteer at our service, running for us at the Cambridge Half (also fabulous sewer!)
Jenny: a GP with a keen interest in mental health, joining us to fundraise for the half marathon
Joseph: our Treasurer and trustee who is running his first marathon for us next year and joined us remotely for a park run in Germany, where there were a total of 9 runners, including the run director!

Our other runners Gabi and Gaby couldn’t make the photo due to illness and prepping to run another marathon today in Oxfordshire, but they were there is spirit!

Good luck to Gabi today with the 👏🏻

Please support our campaign by going to donate on our and cheer on our wonderful team.

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