This morning ( 6 December) we held our final boxing up session for 2014 and we have broken all previous records. The total number of boxes sent out during the year amounted to 1,201 and we sorted, packed and donated a massive 42,035 individual items of kit. This brings the overall total since 1998 to […]
KitAid is now the proud owner of a container to help with the storage of items at our couriers site in Harlow. A massive thank you to the Facilities team from Affinity Water who donated and delivered the container to 5Speed couriers. This has become essential as we have recently filled all of the storage […]
On 8 November a small group of us visited the team from Airdrie and had a fantastic day meeting the people who had put so much effort in to collecting 4k items of kit for us. I was able to give a presentation in the club house and present thank you certificates to the people […]
I think everyone is aware that we reached this point in early November and it was recognised first at the Airdrieonians FC visit, followed by the boxing up session and most recently at the Graham Taylor event at Watford FC. We have received some good press coverage and a great reaction to the special You […]
I was honoured and really privileged to be invited by Graham to attend as a guest at the special celebrations held for the opening of the Graham Taylor stand at Watford FC. It was a lovely event and the crowd really showed their appreciation for the fantastic achievements Graham achieved during his time as manager […]
Airdrieonians FC visit 8 November Attendance at the Herts FA Coaching seminar Boxing up 15 November Mitzvah Day collections 16 November All of the above will be great events and I will post more details in next months update, but if you do want any info before then please let me know.
Thanks to those who helped out on the day at what was a really great event. KitAid received a lot of pre and post publicity and we will receive a great donation of at least £1,500 once all of the proceeds are collected. Many thanks to the organising team who did a great job.
Many of you will know our involvement with this project and how we have sponsored the week long footy camp for quite a few years now. I always come back from our trip to Belfast really inspired and full of admiration for the great work Peter and his team do for the young people in […]
Thanks to Peter for arranging another really good collection at FC United. We travelled up in the KitAid Tour Bus, (Kenny Lawrence’s van), and we had a great day. This was the fifth collection we have held with the club and it was evident that we are becoming well known with their fans. We also […]
A massive thank you to Dougy Allsop and the team from AFC Supporters Trust who collected nearly 4,000 items of kit for us from their season ticket campaign kit amnesty. This was a fantastic project and we have now built a really good link with the club and the Supporters Trust thanks to Dougy. All […]