We received a request for information from a girl in Canberra who was interested in setting up a similar project to KitAid. After some discussion amongst the Trustees I emailed back to understand exactly how closely they wanted to mirror our operating model, and we have subsequently shared some emails where I have offered advice […]
On a truly positive note, we had a call from a Registrar based at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool as he wanted to take out some kit to a hospital he volunteers at in Malawi. Local KitAid contacts Janet and Vin passed on a number of Liverpool and Everton shirts and we recently received some […]
Eniola contacted us recently as she wanted to donate her old kit to a worthy charity. She was recommended KitAid and I explained how we operate, which then resulted in the kit donation. She is a very impressive person, a player for Chelsea, England, Team GB as well as being a qualified Sports Lawyer. Her […]
Derrick has lucky enough to do a couple of radio interviews recently, so all of Beds, Bucks and Herts are now aware of us. Well…those who listen in to Sunday night and lunch time local radio! The Sunday night DJ (Nesta MacGregor) was great and he was really enthusiastic as he supported Arsenal and […]
One of our Trustees,Julia has been persevering and after almost giving up, the PR machine at MUFC emailed out of the blue to say that they would print a story about KitAid and the kit Julia took out to Lesotho in a match day programme. Suddenly one night last week, without any notice, our twitter […]
We have been offered some press photos from the 1970’s by a retired freelance Fleet Street photographer. He has the copyright and has hundreds of photos of the top name players. I have given him a list of the big names (Best, Moore, Charlton, Keegan,etc) and we are waiting to see what comes back. We […]
February's boxing up saw us pack an amazing 135 boxes in just under 3 hours. The sessions are getting faster as we are getting more and more helpers at each session, which is great. Gone are the days when we used to say if we didn’t get 10 people we would have to cancel the […]
You may recall we have entered into an unofficial partnership with Adventure Kicks, who run trips to Africa (and Mongolia). They are planning a trip to Namibia for February 2016 and would like to make it a KitAid supporters trip for a group of 15+ of our people. If anyone is interested could you please […]
The power of twitter showed its worth to us once again as our stories were re-tweeted to thousands of followers. The FC United story is a good one as at our last collection one of their players made the effort to come and talk to us after the game and donated a few pairs of […]
Thanks to Trustee Nick Perchard we received a donation of £500 from the Premier League from their charity fund (from not sending Christmas cards). This will help us towards our expenses and as previously mentioned, we need to try and raise as much as we can in 2015 now that we have to keep £5k […]