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KitAid Campaigns
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| Three Valleys Water works with various organisations to get donations of kit. |
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| Click on the links below to find out more about recent KitAid campaigns: |
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| Soccer am backs KitAid appeal |
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| Soccer am and its fans have become the latest supporters of KitAid. After showing KitAid on their Saturday morning programme the first batch of kit has been delivered and is already boxed up and awaiting despatch. We're delighted with this support as we're all big fans of the programme! |
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| FC Utd of Manchester book date in the diary for 2008 |
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| The shirt amnesty held on 15 March was another great success with 420 items of kit being donated by generous FC Utd fans. KitAid is really pleased with the outcome and so will hundreds of children be, in some of the poorest parts of the world. KitAid would like to thank all of the fans who donated kit, the club, Lindsey Robertson, and also Peter Moulds who co-ordinated the event for us. Good luck for the rest of the season and we hope you make it through the play offs to the Unibond Premier league. |
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| 2007 best year ever for KitAid |
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| Thanks to our volunteers, regional coordinators and all the clubs, schools and businesses up and down the country, KitAid has so far sent out 16,000 shirts to 28 different countries this year. This is a great achievement and a fantastic way to be entering 2008 which is our 10th Anniversary year. |
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| KitAid partners with haart and Spicer McColl Estate Agencies Colchester Utd FC |
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| KitAid is delighted to announce a new partnership with haart and Spicer McColl
Estate Agencies and Colchester Utd FC, which kicked off in August. haart are the
new shirt sponsor for CUFC and they have very generously set up a scheme for fans to receive a £10 discount for a new shirt if they donate their old one to KitAid. This special promotion will run for 3 months from August. Look out for more information on this site as the scheme develops. We would like to thank both haart and Colchester Utd for their fantastic support. |
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| Summer Tournaments 2007 |
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| Many thanks to all of the clubs who generously collect kit on our behalf, especially those who host collections at their Summer tournaments. We appreciate that organising a tournament is a lot of work and we are particularly grateful to Penn & Tylers Green YFC and Berkhamsted Raiders YFC who have also hosted KitAid collections for us. Both club’s have supported KitAid for a number of years now. Fleet Town YFC have set a record by collecting over 1500 items of kit for us and team manager Keith Botevyle has also taken on the role of being a KitAid co-ordinator for Hampshire and Surrey. At their recent awards presentation each player was also presented with a KitAid t-shirt which Keith had specially printed. |
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| Watford FC shirt amnesty |
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| Many thanks to Watford FC for hosting another successful kit collection day
which resulted in 20 bin bags of shirts being donated by fans and the club.
Thanks also to Graham Simpson for agreeing to a half time pitch presentation and
for the Hornets continued support. We wish you a speedy return to the Premier
league next season. |
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| KitAid wins national charity award |
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KitAid is absolutely thrilled to have been chosen as the winner of the “small charity/big achiever” award at the recent 2006 Third Sector Charity Excellence awards. The event was held at the Grosvenor House hotel in London’s Park Lane and it is attended by many leading charities. It is really pleasing to be recognised in this way and fitting in terms of how much everyone has achieved, with a minimal budget but heaps of enthusiasm. Stephen Cook, chairman of the judging panel and Editor of Third Sector said; “KitAid had the most hard-bitten judges stammering with delight and impressed us by what it has achieved with such limited resources.”
We would like to thank everyone who has supported KitAid and this award truly recognises everyone’s hard work. |
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| Lee Sharpe has recently linked up with KitAid |
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| Lee Sharpe, the former Manchester Utd, Leeds Utd and England international, has
recently linked up with KitAid. Lee is visiting South Africa where he will be
linking up with Ambassadors in Sport to work on coaching projects in and around
Cape Town. At each coaching session he will be handing out kit and 30 boxes,
approximately 1,000 shirts, have been provided by KitAid for this project. Lee
visited KitAid at their Hatfield office to meet up with the team and Anglia TV,
as well as local newspapers all covered the news story. Further information
about the trip can be seen on the Lee Sharpe Soccer website, and
we will also add photo’s from the trip to our picture gallery. |
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| Summer Tournaments 2006 |
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| KitAid has had a busy summer where lots of kit has been collected at various tournaments all across the country. We would like to thank all of the following clubs who kindly invited us to collect kit during their events. |
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Penn & Tylers Green FC Buckinghamshire
Allport Hawks YFC The Wirral
Berkhamsted Raiders YFC Hertfordshire
Dacorum Schools Sports Festival Hertfordshire
Knebworth YFC Hertfordshire
Woking Cougars Surrey |
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| The tournaments are a great way of reaching a lot of clubs and we find a lot more kit is donated following the events. If your club would like to stage a kit collection for us then please let us know. |
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| Nuneaton Borough AFC back KitAid |
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Many thanks to the club, the supporters trust and to the fans of Nuneaton Borough AFC who generously donated kit at the collection on Saturday 29 April 2006. A full water butt of kit, including some full team strips and many t-shirts donated by the supporters trust, will soon be on their way to Africa. One NBAFC shirt will also be sent to Belize where there is a non league fan who loves everything about the British beautiful game. Even though he is a Hinckley Utd fan, Geoff Veasey's donated Boro' shirt will take pride of place alongside some other shirts he will be receiving from us. In reply, he is arranging to air freight a load of boxes of kit over to Belize which he will distribute for us.
 
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| FC United of Manchester pull out all the stops for KitAid |
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The KitAid collection held by the club on Saturday 22 April was a fantastic success. Many thanks to the club and most of all to all supporters who very generously donated over 300 shirts and some full kits. All of the kit will soon be bound for Africa and Eastern Europe. A special delivery will also be made to the Bhopal Medical Appeal. Once we receive photographs of your shirts being worn we will let you see them.
Thank you all for your great support and hospitality and we wish you the very best in Division One next season. Many congratulations on what you have achieved so far.
   
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| Stenhousemuir FC collection – A great success |
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Many thanks to all Stenhousemuir FC fans and also to the club itself, for staging the first ever KitAid collection in Scotland on 25 March 2006. More than 400 shirts, 250 pairs of shorts and socks were donated by fans and the club to the KitAid appeal. This is a great response and as a result the name of “The Warriors” will now become well known across villages in Africa for many years to come.
Thank you also to Peter Moulds for co-ordinating the collection and KitAid wishes SFC the very best of luck for the rest of the season and your push for the title.
 
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| Childwall Sports College, Liverpool |
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| After spotting an article about KitAid in a Liverpool FC programme, students from Childwall Sports College decided to start a kit collection. As the school already had links with Liverpool FC through their history teacher Dave Ball, who is also a statistician for the club, LFC very kindly agreed to bring the European Cup in to the school for a day. Hundreds of pupils, including some parents and even baby brothers all made a donation to have their photograph taken alongside the famous trophy. Many thanks to Lynn Gilford for co-ordinating everything on the day and even more thanks for the wonderful gesture of donating all of the proceeds to KitAid. |
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| A cheque for £874 was presented to KitAid by Bolo Zenden on the pitch at Anfield during the half time interval of the game against Birmingham City. 20 bin bags of kit were also presented to Derrick Williams following a presentation he gave to pupils the following day. |
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| KitAid links with Les Ferdinand to donate 500 football shirts to two schools in Zambia |
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| Les Ferdinand and Julie-Anne Uggla (Organiser of charity Zamcog) were delighted to receive a donation of 500 shirts on 15 November 2005 which were on their way to children in Zambia the following day. Thanks to Panshanger FC in Welwyn Garden City who donated a substantial number of the shirts. |
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| Hitchin Town FC supports KitAid as part of the National Kick Racism out of Football' campaign - Saturday 22 October 2005 |
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| Hitchin Town FC supported the KitAid appeal as part of its activities to support the National Kick Racism Out of Football campaign. A fantastic amount of kit was donated by fans and local clubs and a presentation made at half-time by former England mid-fielder and Luton FC player, Ricky Hill |
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| Liverpool FC link up |
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| KitAid met with Liverpool FC to talk about the charity and how the initial spark for setting it up was a little boy in Tanzania wearing an old Liverpool FC shirt. The club have already provided some kit and have agreed to promote the charity to their fans in the match programme. |
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| Christmas comes early for KitAid |
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| Christmas came early for local charity KitAid, when Luton based company, the Great Branding Company Ltd, presented KitAid with 36 boxes of unwanted stock, which is now destined for young children in Africa, India and other developing countries across the world. |
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| Managing Director of the Great Branding Company Ltd, Pino Grillo said: "There's a great passion for football in this country and it's good to know that our donation will help to share that passion across the world." |
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| Great
Notley FC turn out in force for KitAid |
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| Great Notley Football Club,
generously donated 250 shirts to KitAid following
a recent updating of their strip. Players aged from
4 to 14, turned out their cupboards to support the
appeal. |
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| John Golding, Vice-Chairman
of Great Notley FC said: "We're really pleased to
be able to support the KitAid appeal and it's great
to think that children in Africa will shortly be
playing in our kit. It was decided that rather than
letting them go to waste we would put them to good
use by donating them to charity, many of the sets
of kit are less than one season old, but having
changed club colours they have become surplus to
requirements." |
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to children in the developing world where football
is booming but resources are limited. |
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| Thanks to all those involved. |
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| Chesham United FC and Merthyr Tydfil FC support KitAid |
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| Southern Premier league clubs Chesham Utd and Merthyr Tydfil both supported KitAid at their recent league game at Chesham. Fans also brought kit to the ground and the Chesham supporters club very generously donated a number of brand new shirts from previous seasons from the club shop. |
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| Thanks to both clubs and good luck in your run in towards promotion to the Nationwide South division. Merthyr won the game 3 - 1. |
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| Symonds Green FC, Stevenage |
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| Symonds Green FC, a youth Sunday league club from Stevenage very generously donated 10 full kits following a change in shirt sponsor. The kits had been stored away in a garage before they managed to find out about KitAid on the web. |
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| Youth team kits are much sought after and as the word spreads in villages where kit donations are made, we invariably get asked for more kits from neighbouring villages. |
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| Kodak
puts a klick into KitAid and backs the appeal |
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| Staff at Kodak put their support
behind the charity, KitAid when they appealed to
all their employees to bring along any unwanted
football kit to their Sport Relief event on Friday
9 July and donated 20 single-use cameras for the
charity. |
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| "A team from the Research Laboratories
in Harrow were involved in a team building event
at the Three Valleys Water Environment and Education
Centre in Bushey. We constructed several new facilities
at the centre for use by the children who visit
it. While we were there we found out about the work
of KitAid and organised our own local appeal to
help the charity, " said Tania Zuberi, Senior Researcher. |
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| Students
dress down for charity KitAid |
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| Students at Westfield Community
Technology College, Watford wore their favourite
football team colours when they dressed down for
charity KitAid on Friday 25 June 2004. |
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| Following a recent football
shirt amnesty held by the charity in conjunction
with Watford FC, 15 year old Daniel Finill contacted
charity organiser, and Three Valleys Water employee,
Derrick Williams to say that he wanted to organise
a local collection at his college. |
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| Daniel managed to convince
his class mates and PE teacher, James Caldwell to
come dressed in their favourite football strip for
the day as well as donating any unwanted football
kit for KitAid and a £1 to WaterAid. |
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awarded an MBE for his contribution to charitable
causes over the past 21 years, said "I was delighted
to have been contacted by Daniel, who saw us at
the Watford v Norwich City match and really wanted
to help in some way. It's so positive when young
people want to give to others and reflects what
KitAid has always stood for." |
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Caldwell said: "We're pleased to be able to support
a local charity and one that means so much to many
young people. It's nice to see that children across
the world share the same passion for football and
can help each other by giving where they can." |
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| Three Valleys Water donated
four leather footballs which were presented to the
students who donated and collected the most kit. |
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| Brit
Oval backs charity, KitAid |
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| Children and adults in India,
Ghana and Zimbabwe will soon be wearing Surrey County
Cricket shirts with pride, thanks to a large donation
of cricket kit to KitAid from the Brit Oval this
week. |
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| Following a recent football
shirt amnesty organised by charity KitAid and held
at Watford Football Club, the Brit Oval decided
to back the KitAid Appeal and donated all their
old stock from the Surrey CCC shop. |
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| James Benning, England U19s
and Surrey 1st Team player handed over the kit to
Three Valleys Water, Customer Services Technician,
Martin Penny. |
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| Three Valleys Water teamed
up with GE Life, Hitchin and an immediate shipment
was on it's way to Chennai, India thanks to DHL. |
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| Watford
FC backs football shirt amnesty for KitAid |
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| On Saturday 24 April 2004 Watford
fans got behind the appeal and cleared out their
cupboards for KitAid. |
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| Following support from BBC
3 Counties Radio, Mercury FM, and several large
companies in the local area, Three Valleys Water
staff received over 500 shirts at the match on the
day. |
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FC and all their fans for fully supporting the event
on the day. |
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| KitAid teams up with Ravenstone Nursery, Redbourn to help children in Ghana |
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| Young football fans in Ghana will soon be playing in style thanks to a partnership between KitAid and Ravenstone House School in Redbourn. |
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| The school recently appealed for unwanted toys, children's books, sports equipment and second-hand clothes to support the Brenu Beach Community Project, in Ghana. |
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| After the project was brought to
the attention of KitAid administrator, Derrick Williams,
a couple of phone calls were made and several boxes of
kit were on their way to join the shipment. |
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Beach Project in Ghana enjoy their new kit," added Derrick
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| Children in Ghana, part
of the Brenu Beach Community Project managed by the Sabre
Trust, wearing their new kit with pride. |
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| They were set the task
of making their own football pitch, so after digging trenches
for the sidelines in the sand and making the goal out
of bamboo, the children were delighted to be presented
with their new football kit. |
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on the Sabre Trust www.sabretrust.org |
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| Bedwell
Rangers FC, Stevenage supports KitAid |
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| Ken Headington and Bedwell Rangers
FC gave tremendous support to KitAid in January 2004 when
they donated 5 full kits to the charity. |
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| Malcolm
Allen and North Hertfordshire College support KitAid |
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| Get your kit off for KitAid was the
message from Malcolm Allen, former Newcastle United, Watford,
Norwich City, Millwall and Welsh International player,
when he backed the campaign to recycle used football kit
to send on to children in Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, Mali,
Burkina Faso and Russia. |
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| "All over the country children will
have received their favourite football strip for Christmas,
and we're asking people not to throw away their old kit
or put it in the loft but to donate it to KitAid," said
Malcolm. |
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| The appeal resulted in a great response
right across the Three Valleys Water supply area. |
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| Knebworth
Youth supports KitAid |
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| Knebworth Youth read about the appeal
through their local newspaper following the post Christmas
'Get your kit off for KitAid' appeal led by former Welsh
international, Malcolm Allen. They generously donated
a full kit. |
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| Worthing
Dymanos FC supports KitAid |
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| Worthing Dymanos FC heard about the
appeal for kit from their manager, Martin Calway. Through
his contacts in the water industry he was able to deliver
four full kits. |
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| Lark Rise Lower
School, Dunstable supports KitAid |
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| Lark Rise Lower School, Dunstable
read about the appeal thanks to the DCVS newsletter and
were happy to donate one of their old kits. |
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| Explorers
FC supports KitAid |
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| Explorers FC from West Drayton donated
several out-grown kits and have continued to support the
charity by including KitAid details on their web site. |
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| Gade Valley
School, Hemel Hempstead supports KitAid |
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| Gade Valley School, Hemel Hempstead
came on board with KitAid following a WaterAid presentation
by Derrick Williams at their school. They have continued
to support the charity over the years. |
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