St-Annes Carer has sewn scrubs for the NHS with her daughter who has been hailed a Covid-19 Hero.

Former U3a committee member Christine Holland said: “Shellene, my niece and a care-giver, was off work with shingles.

“She finds working on her sewing machine a way of relaxing and she thought she would like to make scrubs for the NHS.

“So I contacted my many friends and contacts asking if they would sponsor a set of scrubs.

“We were overwhelmed with donations but luckily Shellene has a group of sewing friends, from the Vintage Sewing Bunny and St-Annes Embroider’s Guild, who offered to sew.

“St-Annes Council and Community Rail made donations helping us to raise over £4000.

“It was a steep learning curve, buying the materials and then cutting sets of scrubs from paper patterns.

“Then the wonderful Keith from Dragons Den offered to use his factory to machine cut the scrubs and Camilla from Bizzie Fingers offered to help by sourcing materials at cost.

“Shellene and I delivered cut sets of scrubs to the small army of sewing bunnies making production so much quicker.

We branched out from supporting Blackpool Victoria to supplying medical practices across St-Annes and Blackpool and to individuals across the country who were desperate for a couple of sets of scrubs.

Maya, Shellene’s daughter, came up with the idea of using the left over pieces of material to make masks and hanging them on the trees outside her house with a box for donations.

Friends started to help, as demand from the community was amazing and we raised over £1000.”

We branched out from supporting Blackpool Victoria to supplying medical practices across St Annes and Blackpool and to individuals across the country who were desperate for a couple of sets of scrubs.

Maya, Shellene’s daughter, came up with the idea of using the left over pieces of material to make masks and hanging them on the trees outside her house with a box for donations.

She says: "Other friends started to make masks to help, as demand from the community was amazing and we raised over £1000.

"And Maya has been given a Covid 19 Hero award from the Mayor of St-Annes."