Bonnie Milnes recorded on 29/04/2022

Bonnie Milnes is an actress and musician living in Leeds. She says that there’s no money in either so she also works as a carer.

At the beginning of the pandemic, her band stopped performing and she lost her business (a rehearsal studio in the centre of York). Living on her own and finding her work as a carer harder than she’d ever experienced before it was a particularly dark time in Bonnie’s life. Now she is inspired to bring people together and make the most of her new life in Leeds.

As Bonnie has always been passionate about fashion (and has mountains of clothes from previous shows) she began a clothes swap from her home in order to meet like-minded women. Since then she has met some amazing friends who she’s been on holidays with and gotten close to. Bonnie says “I feel very lucky to have this community and want to share the love”.

Whilst the swaps are free, so as not to exclude anyone currently hard up, there is a suggested £4 donation to the swaps and the proceeds are donated to women’s charities. The cost of giving a woman a whole fresh start after escaping domestic violence is absolutely enormous so Women’s Aid need every penny.

To find out more about Good on You go to https://goodonyou.eco/

To donate to Women’s Aid or find out more about the work they do go to https://www.womensaid.org.uk/