KitAid 15th Anniversary - Jess Bergman

Many thanks to Jess Bergman who stole the show with her beautiful performance on the night.  Jess is a rising opera star and we are sure she will perform on the big stage and hopefully at a Cup Final some day soon.  Judge for yourself though through the following link.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhwfksVQvx8

KitAid celebrates 15th Anniversary in style

KitAid celebrated 15 years of success with a truly memorable black tie event at the Watford Hilton hotel in the presence of Patron, Graham Taylor and 200 guests.

The event was a combination of after dinner speeches, live music, an auction and a fantastic demonstration of freestyle football from Guinness World Champion, Dan Magness.  Graham Taylor gave a brilliant speech on what KitAid means to him and he officially retired from playing football on the night by handing over his last two pairs of football boots.  One pair was later auctioned for £370 and the other pair will soon be on their way to Kampala to Stegota FC. Young opera singer Jess Bergman performed 4 beautiful songs, KitAid launched a new dvd of their project work in Lesotho, Peter Thompson spoke passionately about another project KitAid supports in his native Belfast and Derrick Williams, KitAid founder, spoke about the power of partnerships and his personal highlights.

In 15 years KitAid has sent out 205,000 items of kit to 58 different countries, and amazingly 135,000 items have been sent out within the last 5 years.  The evening was a huge success and all 200 guests had a fantastic night and can’t wait for the 20^th Anniversary in 2018!

 

 

 

New KitAid dvd - filmed in Lesotho

Here is the new KitAid release which we hope you will find interesting.  It was filmed by Edward Morgan, a specialist in African projects who has worked in Lesotho.

The official premiere of the dvd was at the 15^th Anniversary celebration dinner, held on 17 October, in the presence of KitAid Patron, Graham Taylor and 200 supporters.

We hope you enjoy the dvd as much as we all did, see http://youtu.be/YvKz4JjDUoA

Derby County FC - What happened next?

KitAid's Derrick Williams was recently invited to a half time presentation at Derby County FC.  All was going well but could this appear on a future Question of sport episode? What happened next?  Please see the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIBm48nFlRg&feature=youtube_gdata

From Hatfield to Macedonia (by Boriscar)

Congratulations to Gary Thomas from Affinity Water, who recently completed a marathon drive from Hatfield to Skopje, Macedonia, delivering kit to orphanages en route.

 

Gary was part of the fantastic Gol! Charity event where Wales supporters buy a cheap car as part of their challenge to get to away games in Eastern Europe.  Gary bought “Boris”, an old Mondeo Estate and amazingly made it to Skopje without breaking down and even hitting 120mph on the Autobahn!  Kit and footballs were handed out to various orphanages which were very well received.

 

Well done Gary, a real shame that Wales lost the game to a late goal from Macedonia.

 

 

Reading FC - KitAid

Recently KitAid were invited to Reading FC to collect unwanted kit they were donating.  It was great to see a club of Reading's size getting involved and the day was filmed by Sky Sports, please see the link below for the clip.

Everyone at KitAid wishes Reading FC the best for the forthcoming season and their push for promotion back to the Premiership. 

http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/teams/reading/8850059/92-live-reading

Watford FC Open Day

Many thanks to WFC and to Alex Ashby for inviting us to have a stand at this season’s open day event.  We had a prime position next to the players tent and we also received a lot of kit and Watford shirts.

We also met some of the players and even had a new Brazilian taking refuge in our gazebo to take a break from the constant autograph signing!  We also met our new mascot, a West Highland Terrier kitted out in a doggie Hornets kit.  Perhaps we should start sending out kit for canines next!

Thanks again to WFC and we really hope you make it to the Premier League next season.