The Sleeping Bag Project

crafting gifts for the homeless with festival textile waste

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If you live in the UK or plan on visiting, love crafts, and helping the homeless, then  The Sleeping Bag Project may be something for you to get involved in. Otherwise, if you have sleeping bags that you don’t use or need anymore, send them over to them to give them a new life. Pass it on…

From their Facebook page:

“Crafting gifts for the homeless with abandoned festival sleeping bags.

We see this as more than charity; we are interested in the crafted gift and time spent beginning to form small acts of resistance to the dominant flow of globalised sensibilities.”

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Thank you Project Craftivism for featuring us on your blog!

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The Sleeping Bag Project was featured on the NCN website here > http://www.ncn.ac.uk/NewsViewer.aspx?id=4565 

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Roberta from Huddersfield Hookers got involved at The Pop Up Art School and stitched up this crafty creation!

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A proud pocket maker showing of his creation at The Pop Up Art School in Huddersfield

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Here at SBP we like cake. More specifically, we like eating cake. So what could make an afternoons crafting more enjoyable? Well, cake obviously!

Yummy rewards for good work!

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Hey look! Some festival figures to feed your souls <3

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what do you think to the new logo?

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At The sleeping bag project we are passionate about crafting change!

We are a social enterprise crafting abandoned sleeping bags into gifts for the homeless. We collect abandoned sleeping bags and textile waste from festivals (over 20 tonnes of which was created at Glastonbury alone), wash and care for them and begin crafting useful additions, such as hand stitched pockets. This year we want to take our workshops back into festivals helping festival goers get crafty!

Taking the time to craft and care goes beyond charity and means a lot more to those that receive the sleeping bags because they can see the work that has gone into it.

We really hope you like our project, it would be even more wonderful if you would like to get involved. A pocket template will be uploaded very soon for you to download so you can get crafting and we will also let you know what festivals we will be attending in our little caravan soon.

Until then, keep in touch,

love SBP x