A GROUP of charity and ethically minded fashionistas at the University of Chester are urging you to clear out your closet for a good cause.
Researcher Joy Spencer, events management students Isabelle Watson and Jen Lam, and English graduate Jen Bostock, are organising Frock Exchange 3 to raise money for childhood cancer charity.
Alongside their Chester-based friends Sammy Rae, Beth Fletcher-Hunt and Laura Jones, the university collective is calling for you to sort out your shoes and arm yourself with unwanted accessories, before heading to the frock swap event on Sunday, October 24.
The aim of Frock Exchange 3 is to unburden yourself of the seldom worn clothes, coats, shoes and accessories gathering dust at the back of your wardrobe and pick up a new item from someone else’s collection to refresh your look, while raising oney for charity.
Joy, who has worked at the university for almost two years as a researcher for the Adolescent Diabetes Needs Assessment Tool (ADNAT) in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, said: “At the June exchange we raised about £200 for Hospice of the Good Shepherd.”
And having read about the success of the last two Frock Exchanges, the production crew behind Granada’s ITV Fixers has helped to fund merchandising for the latest event and will be filming the evening, which will take place at Lakota Bar, on Music Hall Passage.
This time the charity to benefit from the funds raised will be Children With Leukaemia.
The charity is personal to Joy, as her best friend Anja Bebbington, a former Drama and Theatre Studies student at the university, lost her younger brother to the illness.
The event starts at 5pm. Admission is £3.
Find out more by emailing joy.spencer@chester.ac.uk or calling 07708 910294.
