Spreading Warmth with Wrap Up

For many years now, gunnercooke has supported Hands On London with the winter campaign; Wrap Up.  The campaign is simple, but its impact is huge.  Each year the public donate thousands of pre-loved winter coats; the ones that are taking up space in the hallway or forgotten in cupboards, perfectly good quality but they have been outgrown or replaced with something newer. 

Wrap Up takes the coats, cleans and sorts them, and then works with hundreds of charities, community groups and faith organisations to get them to people who need them most. People living in refuges or sheltered accommodation, those experiencing homelessness or those in crisis, since 2011 over 250,000 warm coats have been sent out across the UK to vulnerable men, women and children.  gunnercooke  supports the campaign across our offices, in the UK and globally.   

The campaign goes live today at the home of gcTrust, House of Books & Friends and our flagship office gunnercooke House in Manchester.  For the third year we are hosting a donation point at House of Books & Friends, where members of the public can bring their spare coats and jackets.  Running from 14^th October to the end of the November, drop boxes will be available in the bookshop, and in the gunnercooke offices.

In London we will once again host the collection point at Moorgate Tube Station.  for 3 mornings in November volunteers run the donation point, collecting coats from commuters and sharing news about the project.  Over the past 8 years dozens of gunnercooke partners have volunteered; in 2025 over 500 coats were donated at the station.  The campaign will run on 3rd, 4th and 5th November this year.

In 2023 in Berlin, our German colleagues took Wrap Up international, setting up Wrap Up Berlin.  Working with local charities and community organisations, the team launched a coat collection in Berlin.  Now in their fourth year the campaign has grown bigger than ever and the team will be collected coats on 10th, 11th and 12th November at Berlin Central Station.

As the firm has grown internationally, we have stayed committed to our purpose; leaving the world in a better place and supporting our local communities.  In 2026 we are launching Wrap Up New York and Wrap Up Chicago, watch this space for more information.