Simon Balle school collection

Congratulations to Simon Balle school in Hertford for collecting a fantastic amount of kit and football boots from the whole school.  Students from the school sports council volunteered to give presentations to each of their year groups and set up a collection point in the school reception.  They ran the project  over a whole week and managed to fill the KitAid water butt with a great selection of kit.

 

Thanks also to Mr Stobbart, a PE teacher, who picked up on the KitAid message at a presentation given by Derrick Williams at a Herts FA Schools meeting.

Mitzvah Day,17 Nov Four Four Jew exhibition.

KitAid will be at the Four Four Jew event in Camden this weekend, feel like popping along or want to know more about it click on the following link.

http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/whats-on.php?event=118250 

KitAid anniversary dinner

If you want to be reminded what a great evening the 15th anniversary celebrations were or were unable to attend you are now able to relive the evening on YouTube.  Select the following link to see some of the highlights.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6VYDHVXMqVc2mqNjbPAW1Q?feature=watch

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