Entries by kitaid

Walking Football

I heard last week that KitAid will be the chosen charity for a Walking Football Festival to be hosted later this year by Herts FA, Stevenage FC Foundation and Watford FC CSE Trust.  This is great news and thanks to all three of these great partners. We should enter a team as even the motley […]

Financial position

Finances We are very grateful to some of our supporters who have either dug deep or used their contacts to help us. First of all, can I say a massive thank you to Mr & Mrs Andersen from Watford, who are both retired, for a wonderful donation of £500. We really appreciate it. Also another […]

Graham Taylor OBE

The 12th of January, 2017 is a date I will never forget and I know that everyone is still shocked and saddened by the untimely passing of Graham, our fantastic Patron for so many years. So much has been written and said by so many about what a wonderful man he was and I know […]

Graham Taylor OBE – Patron of KitAid – Our tribute

I am writing this tribute on behalf of all KitAid supporters as well as the 387,636 recipients of kit across the world, who benefited from Graham’s tremendous support prior to his untimely passing. KitAid was very fortunate to have Graham as Patron and we, as a small voluntary charity, have always been immensely proud of […]

Stevenage FC Foundation partnership

We will be attending the Stevenage FC game v Blackpool on 10 December to officially launch the partnership. This is also the same day as our boxing up session and members from the Foundation will be attending as they have a large donation of kit for us.  We will also make a presentation to them […]

Everton in the Community launch

The new partnership was officially launched at the home game against Swansea City on 19 November and this was preceded by a really good article on the club website which involved a player (Bryan Oviedo) promoting the appeal by holding up an Everton shirt with KitAid on the back. Collections were held at different locations […]

Airdrie Trust

Hopefully you will have seen the photos on Twitter/FB of the superb display of shirts for the televised Airdrie game.  Many thanks to Dougy Allsop and his team of helpers who carefully laid out 6,300 shirts on seats around the ground and then had to pack them all up again immediately after the game.  It […]

Everton in the Community (EITC)

We had a really great meeting with EITC and our friends from the Everton Heritage Society in October.  This will be our first official partnership with a Premier League club and the meeting went really well.  There will be a kit collection at the Everton v Swansea game later this month followed by a further […]

Yet another record!

At the September boxing up in Hatfield we passed the total number of boxes sent out for the whole of last year and so created another record.  We have currently sent out 1,443 boxes beating last year's record total of 1,379 boxes. Since 1998 we have now sorted and found a new home for 361,635 […]

Ikechi Anya Auction

Ikechi has helped us with promotions in the past and he is definitely a footballer with an interest in supporting good causes. Last week he turned up without any prior notice to the Affinity Water Head Office, to donate some great kit.  This included one of his current season WFC shirts signed by the entire […]