VOLUNTEERS from across the county are doing their part in protecting frontline NHS staff by making scrubs.

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Ashleigh Lindsell, an NHS worker from Lincoln, formed ‘For the Love of Scrubs’, encouraging people to help make scrubs from their homes, in order to fill a gap in provision up and down the country.

A Worcestershire offshoot group formed on Facebook, with a current membership of 2000 busy sewers.

Katie Powis, founding member of the Worcestershire team, said: "Homes have been turned into mini distribution hubs.

"Everyone is working flat out seven days and evenings a week fundraising, sourcing and distributing fabric, sewing scrubs, hats, laundry bags and headbands and arranging distribution to front-line staff.

“We have received donations of fabric and buttons, some from our fabulous sewers and their friends and families and some from businesses.

“It is an absolutely amazing and humbling thing to be involved with - we are stunned every day by people’s kindness and the gratitude from the front-line medics who receive our donations.”

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The group has received approval from health chiefs to make scrubs to exacting standards and have a process in place to satisfy infection control, using a central hub for distribution of items.

So far, 225 scrub sets, 6210 wash bags, 3030 buttoned headbands and 602 scrub hats have been made by the sewers but they need material for scrubs.

There is a crowd-funding site set up which has reached £5000 in donations.

The Crowdfunding site can be visited at: shorturl.at/ejlty