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Thank you M/C and Beattie. The volunteers are hoping to make their own morsbags for the festive parcels next year with our guidance. I shall recommend they start in about august. My Brocks Hill morsbaggers will tell you I always believe in starting early!
We supply morsbags for 4 food banks and what I like they are always very grateful and never put me under pressure. The organisers are always pleased to receive whatever we can supply. The Red Cross near the Resource Centre even gave us parking spots, as did the Sikh temple and the stair lift company!
Ha! Well Pol and Joe Morsman used to live in Ealing but they are now in Wiltshire! thats the thing about pods and morsbaggers. It is all a bit transient. At Wandsworth prison for example they just made a batch of morsbags for a special event. Sometimes a pod will make just 1 morsbag and even then then that 1 morsbag is as important and relevant as a morsbag made by a pod who has made thousands.
What often happens though is if you start making and giving away bags, people will ask if they can help you in some way. Another idea is to invite friends round to make bags – tea/coffee/wine/chat. I have been morsbagging for about 6 years now and three of my pod came from my book group! You can often find community rooms that will let you use them free if you tell them morsbags is totally non profit making etc.
We give a lot of morsbags to a lot of food banks. If we have any made out of blackout fabric then we do give them those but the factory that donates the blackout fabric to morsbags is short at the moment but you could contact Lynne at Kio Bags to see if she has any left.
We have set up a good system with the food banks. They make up food parcels using normal sized morsbags, the service users take them and when/if they return they bring back the empty bag and get another full one. So far this is proving to be sustainable. Obviously they don’t get them all back but thats fine as hopefully they are being used.
This Christmas we are supplying 200 morsbags to one of the Bridge groups which supplies festive food parcels. Next year they are attempting to make their own morsbags with the help of volunteers.
Looking at your link I would suggest contacting them to see if they could us a standard morsbag to fold up and put inside the backpack as a re-usable extra.
Let us know how you get on 🙂
Hi lady Delapre. I seem to remember someone making morsbags out of shower curtains. As far as pockets and zips, basically there is nothing to stop you but the main ethos is for us to have a simple design that anyone can make. We often have people who have never sewn before. Also a morsbag is there foremost to replace the free plastic carrier bags which don’t normally come with zips and pockets! Some people make shoulder straps, join pieces together etc. As long as they have a morsbag label, are sturdy enough to carry bottles, free, counted on your pod tally and preferably used with recycled fabric it’s all good! 🙂
Ha! You are welcome Krisaby! Glad you like them! It also means Alison Steadman should have received her morsbags as they were sent at the same time. She often says how much she hates pbs so I thought she should know about us! And she is one of my favourite actresses 🙂
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