Two local community ventures providing PPE for key workers have been given a boost this week with donations from Tenby Town Council.

The ‘For the Love of Scrubs’ campaign to purchase fabric to help local volunteers making scrubs for frontline NHS staff and Greenhill School’s Team West Wales Covid 19 Volunteer Group making face shields for key workers are each to receive £500 to assist them with their work.

Both fundraising campaigns have been well publicised on social media and, although they are not meeting at the moment due to the coronavirus lockdown, local town councillors held an email conversation this week to overwhelmingly agree that both projects should be supported.

“Although we’ve not been holding official meetings councillors are still very much aware of what is going on in town through social media like the ‘Tenby Together’ Facebook page, and are in touch with each other,” explained town clerk Andrew Davies.

“Clr. Laurence Blackhall sent a message out to fellow members on Monday saying that while there have been so many people doing so many great things to help during current circumstances and, it goes without saying that we congratulate them all, these were a couple of groups where the council could help out with financial assistance.”

Mr. Davies continued: “His fellow councillors were fully behind his idea, and then went even further to back Clr. Mrs. Sue Lane’s suggestion that the initial amount Clr. Blackhall proposed be doubled!”

The town council’s Covid-19 emergency committee, which has been granted delegated powers to agree action on urgent business during the coronavirus pandemic, was happy to agree to members wishes.

The For the Love of Scrubs, which now has over 40,000 members - is made up of more than 80 dressmakers and stitchers who are working hard to provide local frontline Hywel Dda staff, GP surgeries, midwives and hospices with much-needed supplies of uniforms, scrub bags, reusable gowns, and headbands.

To be able to continue to make scrubs they desperately need to source more fabric. You can help by donating to our Just Giving page (justgiving.com/crowdfunding/pembrokeshireftlos) or by donating suitable fabric to any of the members.

Contact them for more information, to join the group, to request items for a care setting, or to make a donation of fabric: