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Jun 2020
Since the coronavirus crisis began, Ripon retailer Caroline Lodge has literally given material assistance to an army of volunteer sewers who have been making masks, scrubs and scrubs bags for front line workers.
Rosie & Clover, her shop in Westgate, reopened on Wednesday and Caroline told The Stray Ferret:
Rosie & Clover, which has been trading in Ripon for six years, sells made-to-measure curtains and blinds, associated home furnishings and specialist furniture paint. It was temporarily closed along with many others in the city as government restrictions on the retail sector came into force.
As her shop went into lockdown, Caroline posted an item on Facebook offering free rolls of fabric for use in making PPE and had soon given away more than £750 worth of material to sewers based in Ripon, Boroughbridge and surrounding villages.
She said:
Her generosity has been praised by Ripon-based mask maker Eileen Jordan (pictured above), who said:
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