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 site lit up, and in the space of a few hours we received hundreds of retweets and favourites. The current figure has topped 1,000.

They then put the story on to their Facebook page and in the space of a few days we received 111,000 likes.

There were comments from all over the world and we now have the Beirut branch of the MUFC supporters club following us on twitter.

If you haven’t seen the story then take a look at either our twitter page or the fb KitAid Charity page. This really demonstrate the global branding of the big clubs and the power of social media.

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 brother plays for Hull City and her Father was an MP in Nigeria.

I am pleased to have ladies players on board as we do support a lot of girls/ladies projects. 

We also had Jordan Nobbs who plays for Arsenal, England and TGB attend a boxing up session last year.

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 his boots.

We got great pictures of them being handed over in the Gambia and Zimbabwe and he commented that it had made his day and how great it was to see a charity making a difference. Reading also re-tweeted a picture of their kit being used in the Gambia and one of their players started to follow us (Jem Karacan).

Twitter really does work, even if you don’t want to tweet, you can still follow us and see all of the latest news at www.twitter.com/kitaid 

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 session, we now get a regular 25+.

So far in 2015 we have already sent out 358 boxes of kit and this now brings the grand total of items of kit donated since 1998 to a massive 275,045.

It was only a few months ago we were celebrating the 250k milestone!

We really couldn’t survive without everyone’s support and we are very grateful for it. Please keep doing what you are doing!

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 up the great work.