Your spare winter coat has never been needed more
Now in it’s 8th year, Wrap Up, an award-winning campaign, partnered with Hands on London to spread the warmth across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leicester, Bradford, Bristol by collecting and distributing warm winter coats to vulnerable residents.
The current cost of living crisis is biting down hardest on those least able to cope, with sky-rocketing fuel and food costs leaving the UK’s most vulnerable people out in the cold. Your spare winter coat makes a very real difference for people who struggle to stay warm in winter time.
You hand over your spare winter coat to us and we re-home it to charities that support people who are homeless, refugees, children living in poverty and people fleeing domestic violence. Simple.
We’re wrapping up safely too by working hard to make sure everything about Wrap Up is completely COVID-19 safe. Donate a coat from November 2023.
Thank you for wrapping up with us last year
A warm thank you to all who supported our Wrap Up campaign last winter.
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, you spread warmth, donating 10,000 warm clothing items, including 5,550 coats, and over 4,000 jumpers and cardigans to protect refugees, vulnerable women, homeless people, families, and children from the cold.
Wrap up is an award-winning charity campaign that aims to keep the most vulnerable people in the UK warm during the winter. We collect spare winter coats and distribute them to the homeless, refugees, and children living in poverty.
Through our Wrap Up campaign, in partnership with Hands On London, we were able to pass your coats to 50 charities in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester, London, Glasgow, Bradford and Bristol.
We managed to collect 20,287 coats in partnership with Hands on London and 109 volunteers spent 445 hours, collecting, sorting, and quality-checking your donations.
Download our Wrap Up 2022 report here to read more about how you’ve brought warmth to some of the UK' s most vulnerable.
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Volunteer with us
Getting involved in Wrap Up as a volunteer will warm your heart! Please email our team at volunteers@humanappeal.org.uk to find out more.
Host a collection
Whether it’s at your school, place of work, place of worship, favourite club, local store, or your neighbourhood, why not host your own collection?
Share the warmth
Share our Wrap Up posts on your social media, or write your own using our campaign hashtags #WrapUpMCR, #WrapUpBrum, #WrapUpGlasgow, #WrapUpLeicester, #WrapUpBristol, #WrapUpBradford and #WrapUpLondon.
“The donation of the coats helped so many of our service users. Men, women and children were able to take advantage of this fantastic project. Thank you”
Brunswick Parish Church
Wrap Up Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Bradford, Glasgow, Leicester, and London is brought to you by Human Appeal in partnership with Hands on London.
