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 […]
Wwe received some great photos of Cardiff City kit being used by boys at the Somalia School for Dead Children. Ismail who collected the kit from us sent us a fantastic note, please find an extract below: "We were informed that no team plays with the deaf team. Our colleague hired an AstroTurf and arranged […]
Dougy Allsop and his team have recently made an amazing trip to Mongolia where they took out kit, played in the national stadium and helped to build a number of things from funds they had raised. This all came about from an introduction they made with Adventure Kicks when we went up to Scotland last […]
Each boxing up session now seems to end in a new record figure and somehow we managed to sort and box nearly 7,000 items at the September session. As a result we are now very close to 300k items of kit being donated since 1998 which is incredible. Especially when you think we were only […]