Monday, 9 July 2012
Lealands School, Luton turn kit in to art!
Thanks go out to Lealands School in Luton for their recent kit collection which we will be collecting soon. Check out this fantastic bit of art that they made with the kit!
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
KITAID ARE THE MAIN STORY ON THE LIVERPOOL FC WEBSITE!
June finished on a high as KitAid was featured on the Liverpool FC official website as a main news story on Saturday. See http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/reds-reach-out-with-kitaid
Thanks to Liverpool FC, Janet Neville, Vincent O'Brien our Regional Coordinator for Merseysied as well as Andy Carroll for this pair of boots! We will be auctioning the boots in the near future.
Thanks to Liverpool FC, Janet Neville, Vincent O'Brien our Regional Coordinator for Merseysied as well as Andy Carroll for this pair of boots! We will be auctioning the boots in the near future.
SPREADING THE WORD...
We're delighted to have developed new links with some professional or ex-professional footballers!
Paul Canoville used to play for Chelsea in the early 1980's and has an amazing life story. He went from being a pro footballer to a drug addict, living in a car , and has now turned his life around to become a motivational speaker in schools/prisons. He is involved with a football project in Dominica and will be coming to our boxing up session on 14th July.
The Sodje brothers have played for a number of clubs including Stevenage and Bury and are running a Foundation in Nigeria. Derrick met Paul Fairclough, the England non-league manager at Barry Lenton's award event last month who has been out in Nigeria, helping them with coaching. We will be sending over some boxes to Stephen Sodje to help with the project.
Chris Giles is a really interesting guy who has played for Yeovil, Crawley and Aldershot and is currently playing in the Conference for Salisbury City. He collected 1,000+ shirts from fans at all the clubs he had played for and we met up with him last Tuesday evening when he brought his campervan fully loaded with them all to Hatfield. Ian of Football Gambia also cam to the meeting as most of the shirts will end up at this project in the Gambia.
Paul Canoville used to play for Chelsea in the early 1980's and has an amazing life story. He went from being a pro footballer to a drug addict, living in a car , and has now turned his life around to become a motivational speaker in schools/prisons. He is involved with a football project in Dominica and will be coming to our boxing up session on 14th July.
The Sodje brothers have played for a number of clubs including Stevenage and Bury and are running a Foundation in Nigeria. Derrick met Paul Fairclough, the England non-league manager at Barry Lenton's award event last month who has been out in Nigeria, helping them with coaching. We will be sending over some boxes to Stephen Sodje to help with the project.
Chris Giles is a really interesting guy who has played for Yeovil, Crawley and Aldershot and is currently playing in the Conference for Salisbury City. He collected 1,000+ shirts from fans at all the clubs he had played for and we met up with him last Tuesday evening when he brought his campervan fully loaded with them all to Hatfield. Ian of Football Gambia also cam to the meeting as most of the shirts will end up at this project in the Gambia.
Friday, 15 June 2012
It's more than just a shirt...
Stegota FC from Kampala are definitely the most enterprising bunch of guys KitAid has ever worked with!
You may remember the story where we sent them a batch of XXL Stoke City shirts with the shirt sponsor of "Britannia" printed on the front. The guys tracked down a company in Kampala called Britania (note different spelling) and they persuaded them to support the club as they were promoting their company name! As a result they received a very large donation of biscuits to sell at their games.
The relationship between Stegota FC and Britania has now moved on and they have become the new shirt sponsor, which is fantastic news. Last week, Thomas Enright, KitAid Trustee, was visiting projects in Uganda and he met up with the Stegota team who presented KitAid with a special shirt. If you want to follow their progress in the Kampala First Division visit their website at http://www.stegotafc.com/
Well done Stegota, we admire your enterprise and we hope the new kit brings you good luck.
You may remember the story where we sent them a batch of XXL Stoke City shirts with the shirt sponsor of "Britannia" printed on the front. The guys tracked down a company in Kampala called Britania (note different spelling) and they persuaded them to support the club as they were promoting their company name! As a result they received a very large donation of biscuits to sell at their games.
The relationship between Stegota FC and Britania has now moved on and they have become the new shirt sponsor, which is fantastic news. Last week, Thomas Enright, KitAid Trustee, was visiting projects in Uganda and he met up with the Stegota team who presented KitAid with a special shirt. If you want to follow their progress in the Kampala First Division visit their website at http://www.stegotafc.com/
Well done Stegota, we admire your enterprise and we hope the new kit brings you good luck.
Thursday, 24 May 2012
BARRY SCOOPS TOP PRIZE!!
Many congratulations to Barry Lenton for winning the National Game Awards fan of the year!
Barry has now been recognised for his incredible effort in collecting 6,000 shirts for KitAid. Paul Fairclough, England C (non-league) Manager also presented Barry with a framed certificate from Graham Taylor on behalf of KitAid.
Following the ceremony, we are now looking to work with Paul and the Sodje brothers who have set up a foundation in Nigeria.
Well done Barry from all at KitAid, an amazing achievement - keep up the fantastic work!
Barry has now been recognised for his incredible effort in collecting 6,000 shirts for KitAid. Paul Fairclough, England C (non-league) Manager also presented Barry with a framed certificate from Graham Taylor on behalf of KitAid.
Following the ceremony, we are now looking to work with Paul and the Sodje brothers who have set up a foundation in Nigeria.
Well done Barry from all at KitAid, an amazing achievement - keep up the fantastic work!
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
CHECK OUT OUR ANNUAL REVIEW!
The KitAid 2011/12 annual review is now available HERE - check out all the great stuff we've been doing over the last 12 months!
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
FORGOTTEN CARIBBEAN
KitAid is delighted to have started a partnership with the Sacred Sports Foundation.
Sacred Sports Foundation was founded by Keith Alexander the ex-City manager who died in 2010. The foundation is now run by his brother Delroy Alexander and works to increase opportunity and social inclusion for Caribbean youth. On a recent trip to the UK, Delroy approached us to help source spare kit for their programmes in St Lucia.
Speaking about the SSF programmes in St Lucia Delroy pointed out that behind the glossy travel pictures there are challenges in the Caribbean similar to those in other less developed areas of the world
“Imagine waking up in paradise and watching a visitor splash on a costly bottle of sun tan lotion whilst you struggle to eke out a meagre living on less than $5 a day” said Delroy “But that is the reality for far too many of our youth”
“Several of our grass roots community programmes desperately require kit” he continued. “we utilise any kit donations effectively and really believe they can help change the lives of our youth”.
Sacred Sports Foundation was founded by Keith Alexander the ex-City manager who died in 2010. The foundation is now run by his brother Delroy Alexander and works to increase opportunity and social inclusion for Caribbean youth. On a recent trip to the UK, Delroy approached us to help source spare kit for their programmes in St Lucia.
Speaking about the SSF programmes in St Lucia Delroy pointed out that behind the glossy travel pictures there are challenges in the Caribbean similar to those in other less developed areas of the world
“Imagine waking up in paradise and watching a visitor splash on a costly bottle of sun tan lotion whilst you struggle to eke out a meagre living on less than $5 a day” said Delroy “But that is the reality for far too many of our youth”
“Several of our grass roots community programmes desperately require kit” he continued. “we utilise any kit donations effectively and really believe they can help change the lives of our youth”.
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