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The costume department behind the hit BBC TV show His Dark Materials are making scrubs for NHS staff.

They’ve sourced the correct material and checked they’re fit for purpose and have raised over £6,000 to pay for materials.

Costume supervisor Dulcie Scott has been working with the costume designers and seamstresses from the fantasy show as they are all currently working from home.

The group have repurposed the acronym HDM, for the show His Dark Materials, to Helping Dress Medics.

Several of the makers are in Cardiff, where the series was filmed. Ms Scott is in the north Cotswolds and another maker is in Plymouth.Similar schemes are now running in London and springing up elsewhere.

(Image: BBC/Bad Wolf/HBO)

"Our aim is to keep it local and to supply to the hospitals closest by," Ms Scott wrote on the GoFundMe page for the project.

"This should make things quicker, keep costs down and ideally keep any risk of contagion to a minimum.

"We are liaising with hospital staff directly in the areas we live and taking advice from them about what they need, so that we can specifically help them.

"The nature of how the virus is spread means that the demand for scrubs is especially high.

"Using our professional contacts, we are buying materials at the most reasonable prices possible, but it is still quite a considerable outlay.

"Any donation you could make would help directly with materials - all our labour is being given for free."

Series Two of His Dark Materials should be unaffacted by the Covid-19 pandemic as filming was finished before the outbreak. Series one and two were filmed back-to-back to avoid continuity errors with the young lead characters noticeabley aging.

The BBC/HBO production is currently in post-production with people working from home. The series is expected to be screened in the autumn.