Leeds-based Perry Uniform has been making mattress covers for the NHS Nightingale Hospitals from its blazer factory in Leeds. The company initially closed its factory and furloughed production staff but was approached by Leeds City Council to produce mattress covers for NHS beds in the new Nightingale Hospitals in three locations across the country.

Over a couple of days, the company repurposed its factory, configuring the work space to ensure safe working, to manufacture specialist mattress protectors for a local supplier of mattresses to the NHS.

Perry Uniform is a supplier of uniforms to independent schools, universities and clubs; the company is an online retailer operating from a distribution and contact centre in West Leeds as well as three showrooms in central London. The firm also operates a manufacturing facility, co-located in its warehouse, where it produces the core item of many school uniforms – blazers. Alongside school blazers, Perry has produced club blazers for some of the sporting elite such as the England Cricket Team, Cambridge University Boat Club for the Boat Race and Northampton Saints Rugby Club.

Anna Bunting, Sales and Marketing Manager at Perry Uniform, said: “We are incredibly proud of our team for stepping up to volunteer and support the national effort.”

The top image is a member of the Perry Uniform team sewing the mattress covers while the second is from a a few weeks earlier, when the team was stitching school blazers. The blazer featured in the picture is that of Wetherby Prep School in London.

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