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 […]
Last Sunday our founder Derrick Williams MBE had the pleasure of meeting his namesake. Bristol City held a kit amnesty earlier this season and collected over 600 shirts for us. They arranged for their number 3, Derrick Williams, to meet up with our very own Derrick Williams after the game where they did a photo […]
Barry has re-launched his collection and he has currently collected more than 11k items of kit since he first started in 2012. He was interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside recently and they are very supportive as they plug the collection periodically and also have a storage bin in their reception. Good luck Barry and keep […]
I have always wanted to establish twinning links between grass root clubs who support us and teams in Africa. Following the recent visit by Father Joe from the Jesuit Mission Zimbabwe project I am pleased to finally have got things moving on this idea. We are starting slowly with a few clubs we know well […]
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 […]