At a recent Trustee meeting we discussed the impossible task of how to replace Graham. It didn’t take us long to realise that we will never find another Patron like Graham and we have decided to leave this position vacant, in some way, as a sign of respect for what he meant to us all. […]
Sometimes it can be hard to keep good news quiet, but as a responsible charity, we have to recognise that potential partnerships can take a lot of discussion and they cannot be announced until the time is right and agreement has been made on both sides. I cannot make any announcement yet but just to […]
At the start of February, on a bitterly cold snowy day, we launched our new partnership with West Herts College in Watford. They run BTEC football courses and want to engage their sports students with KitAid. They will also run a kit amnesty across all 7,000 students once the partnership is more developed. I am […]
This is a big opportunity for KitAid and we have been given a page in the commemorative programme to publicise our work, as well as collecting on the day outside Anfield. We could end up with a lot of kit and we are receiving help from various people on the day and in advance to […]
I heard last week that KitAid will be the chosen charity for a Walking Football Festival to be hosted later this year by Herts FA, Stevenage FC Foundation and Watford FC CSE Trust. This is great news and thanks to all three of these great partners. We should enter a team as even the motley […]
Finances We are very grateful to some of our supporters who have either dug deep or used their contacts to help us. First of all, can I say a massive thank you to Mr & Mrs Andersen from Watford, who are both retired, for a wonderful donation of £500. We really appreciate it. Also another […]
The 12th of January, 2017 is a date I will never forget and I know that everyone is still shocked and saddened by the untimely passing of Graham, our fantastic Patron for so many years. So much has been written and said by so many about what a wonderful man he was and I know […]
I am writing this tribute on behalf of all KitAid supporters as well as the 387,636 recipients of kit across the world, who benefited from Graham’s tremendous support prior to his untimely passing. KitAid was very fortunate to have Graham as Patron and we, as a small voluntary charity, have always been immensely proud of […]
We will be attending the Stevenage FC game v Blackpool on 10 December to officially launch the partnership. This is also the same day as our boxing up session and members from the Foundation will be attending as they have a large donation of kit for us. We will also make a presentation to them […]
The new partnership was officially launched at the home game against Swansea City on 19 November and this was preceded by a really good article on the club website which involved a player (Bryan Oviedo) promoting the appeal by holding up an Everton shirt with KitAid on the back. Collections were held at different locations […]