I had an excellent meeting earlier this week with Darren Bernstein from The FA and Nick Perchard from our charity partner, The Herts FA. The meeting was to design a plan for KitAid and The RAF charity, Taking football to Africa, to receive surplus Umbro branded training kit from the 50 County FA’s across the […]
As you know, we have sponsored the fantastic Ballysillan football camp again this year and for the last 4 years I have travelled over to Belfast for the final Friday and made a weekend trip of it. If we do the same again this year it will be on 18/19/20 July. Even though I have […]
I am deighted (and relieved!) to have secured the £8k sponsorship we needed to go ahead with the black tie 15th Anniversary dinner on Thursday 17 October. Thanks to Affinity Water, Mouchel, Homeserve and DST Global Solutions who all agreed to be joint sponsors. We can now start on the hard work of pulling the […]
We always ask for feedback from the charities we partner with and in most cases we receive it. Sometimes we receive an email or letter which really stands out and makes you realise the power of what we do. The following did exatly that and the fact that our shirts have probably allowed 2 boys […]
We have been holding some funds as "ringfenced" for special projects and this week we were able to let the charity partners know they had been chosen. We decided to make the grants to small charities we know who can make the money go a long way and they will use it for projects which […]
We’ve set up an account for KitAid with Easyshopping and we now need to try and promote it to our supporters to encourage them to register. It is really easy (hence the name!) and could be beneficial for us, as if you choose KitAid as your preferred charity we will recive a payment for every online […]
You may remember we entered into a charity partnership last year with the HFA. Apart from Louisa attending some of our boxing up sessions we haven’t really had the time to launch or develop the partnership further but we are about to do so. Louisa has arranged for all of the County Cup Finals (25 […]
Barry has launched part 2 of his Merseywide/Marine FC collection and he is trying to reach 10,000 shirts collected by the end of the season. He has recently passed the 7k milestone, which is amazing. He has got support from BBC Radio Merseyside which helps, not only with the shirt appeal but in terms of […]
Thanks to Helen for contacting Ellen White and for getting her interested in KitAid. As a result she donated a mountain of her own England and Arsenal training kit and has expressed an interest in coming along to a boxing up session soon. We held an official presentation at a St Albans City match in […]
A great draw as it brings 2 clubs who have supported KA together. I have sponsored the match ball in KA’s name and David Ingham (RC for Cumbria) is a mad Barrow supporter and will be travelling down. David doesn’t really get the chance to get to many of our events so it will be […]