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OUR LOCAL

FENLAND SCRUBBERS

Way back on Easter Sunday,
Alys Turner and her friend
Anne decided they wanted
to do something useful for
those frontline NHS staff,
hospitals and care homes
who were desperately
struggling to cope with
the crisis created by Covid care homes, dentists, plus several hundred
19. They decided to form masks were made for Age Concern in March.
a group of people to make All the staff loved their colourful scrub sets as
PPE and that is how you can see from the photos. One of our ladies,
Fenland Scrubbers came to Rachel, made hand sewn
be. across the body light
resistant chemo bags
Katy Parker joined Alys and
Anne on Easter Monday for those undergoing
and together they started treatment at home and in
the process of liaising hospital.
with For The Love of One of the lasting results
Scrubs, Huntingdon and of this group, who have
Peterborough and became given their time and skills
a branch of FTLS. Katy to help in this dreadful
fundraised and collected pandemic, is that it
donated material and duvet has brought together PPE
sets to make PPE, later a wonderful group of people who wouldn’t
stepping in to help Alys otherwise have known each other but who are
coordinate after Anne had now firm friends!
to drop out. There were
also two ladies in the village who made well over
100 scrub wash bags between them!
Eventually the group had over 80 members
from Manea, Doddington, Wimblington, March,
Christchurch, and other local villages and sewing
machines were producing colourful scrub sets and
masks for delivery to Papworth, Addenbrookes,
Hinchingbrooke and Peterborough hospitals,
the Butterfly Legacy Project, local surgeries,
Noah's Rainbow for Heroes

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