Many congratulations to John on winning the Pride of Swindon award! He is chaplain for the Wiltshire Fire Service, coaches a local football team, but John is also one of our Regional Reps. His work for KitAid was cited, not only for collecting kits but also for the work he carries out in The Gambia when […]
You may have spotted on twitter/facebook that Eniola very kindly donated her winnings to KitAid and mentioned her support of our work during the programme. This resulted in immediate social media activity and some positive feedback and interest. It really does prove the power of national TV coverage and hopefully there will be more to […]
Since the last update we have held our first ever boxing up away from Hatfield and the first session of 2016. The boxing up in Manchester went really well and it was a great learning experience. A very big thank you to Janet (Neville) for all of the organising and to Peter (Moulds) for persuading […]
You may recall that we were contacted last year by some people in Canberra who wanted to set up a version of KitAid. I have recently been in touch with them and they are soon to send their very first container shipment to The Gambia, having spent most of 2015 collecting kit donations from all […]
You may be aware that we have a policy of considering grant application requests for amounts of circa £1,000 when our funds allow. We have worked with the Malalo Sports Foundation in Zambia for a number of years and at our Trustee meeting in January agreed to consider their latest grant request. The project will […]
At the October boxing up session we passed another major milestone as we reached the 300k items of kit sent out since 1998 and we currently sit on a grand total of 302,000. I didn’t expect to reach that figure in 2015 and it really goes to show how much kit is coming to us […]
Ben recently sent this email which although sad, highlights once again the power of giving something as simple as a football scarf or shirt to those who have very little Finally, I have a picture of some of the aid you have given being distributed. Some of the football scarves you donated were distributed along […]
Many thanks to Janet for collecting all of the kit donated by fans at the recent kit amnesty. This campaign generated a lot of interest, including a mention on the main BBC Sport web site, and some great comments on twitter. All of the shirts will be sorted and donated at the next boxing up […]
This was another successful event and once all of the proceeds have been collected KitAid will receive 5% of the total, which last year amounted to £1,600. A big thank you to the Graduates from Affinity Water who organised the event and on a personal note, I am really pleased to see this event reaching […]
Our first ever boxing up session outside of Hatfield is now planned for Sat 28 November in Manchester. We are really excited about this and thanks very much to Janet and Peter for making this happen. Peter, through his contacts at FC United of Manchester, has arranged for us to be given access to a […]