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Knitting for Charity

Want to knit for a good cause? Maybe the only place you heard of knitting for is Oxfam? Oxfam are no longer accepting knitted tops to send abroad, but if you want to knit blankets they will accept them and sell them at events such as Glastonbury, where they raise much needed money and are very popular.

There are lots of other ways that you can click your needles for a good cause.

Knimble Knitters
This is a knitting competiton to raise money for Arthritis Care. Entrants can knit a scarf, hat, pair of mittens or any other accessory on the theme of Winter, and will have the chance of winning a cash prize of £25, £50 or even £200.

The Children's Society's Big Stitch
Knit some love... Get sponsored to knit little hearts to represent the love shown through The Children's Society's work to thousands of disadvantaged children facing abuse, neglect and poverty in their daily lives.

The BIG Tea Cosy
Knit a tea cosy or a cupcake pin cushion to help support your local St John Ambulance volunteers. You can either sell your knitted cupcakes or tea cosies at a BIG Tea Cosy party and send a donation or alternatively send them your knitted items. For further information or to request a fundraising pack please contact Helen on 020 7324 4154 or visit the website. Patterns are included on the website too.

Sands
Sands need knitted baby blankets for their Precious Memory Boxes. A pattern is available on their website. They also require donations of white DK yarn.

Teddies for Tragedies
Provide teddies for sick children in mainly Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. Contact them to find a local collecters for your knitted teddies. They offer their own pattern, as teddies need to be a specific size.

Preemies UK
A small group of volunteers that knit and crochet clothing for premature babies.

Charity Clowns
Knitted clowns needed for the very poor children of Kosovo, on behalf of Hope and Aid Direct.

Algerian Action
Algerian Action provide clothing and toys to needy children aged between 0-12 and ‘baby packs’ tomotherswho have nothing for their new-born’s. Suitable patterns are available on the site.

Loving Hands
A charity knitting, crocheting and sewing group based in the UK which has over 160 members who work away helping lots of different charities (Feed the Children, Save, the Children, UK Maternities, Boobs for Breastfeeding, Blythswood care, Burundi Bears, Baby Pack Project, British and International Sailor's Society and Blankets for Animal Shelters at the moment).

Operation Elderly Charity Stitchers
A non-profit Organisation that makes Lap Quilts and blankets for the elderly residents in nursing homes around the UK. They need knitted, crotched or sewn patches.

Bonnie Babies
Sends premature baby outfits and blankets to special care baby units around the UK and to parents who need support.

The Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme
Part of Community Service Volunteers this organisation harnesses the skills of the over-50's. Their knitting projects include coats and bonnets for premature babies, teddies and blankets for the elderly.

Cuddles
Supports families who have lost a baby to still birth or miscarriage and need clothes and blankets for the tiny babies. There are patterns and information on the website and a running totals of the items donated each month.

Ray of Hope
Ask you to send patterns, knit for your local hospital or help Leighton Hospital, Crewe Cheshire, UK. They have patterns, news about charity knitting and message boards for knitters.

Many civic and church organisations will also have their own links with groups that accept knitted items to send to local hospitals or overseas. You could also try contacting your nearest volunteer bureau to see if they have any requirements. The Knitting Guild Association has a big list of charities who accept knitted items, mostly US and Canada.

US Based Charities

Afghans for Afghans
US Charity sending blankets to Afghanistan. The country has been devastated not only by the original Soviet invasion in 1979 then by the recent war initiated by the US after 9/11. Outside the US you can support their work by purchasing knitting patterns from their website.

Knitting & Giving
Connecticut based charity group that has been established to provide warm hand knit or crocheted items to those in need. They deliver donated items to local hospitals, homeless shelters, and more, as well as ship donations to those in need throughout the United States and abroad.

Steven's Comfy Toes/Cyndy's Tiny Tootsies
Steven's Comfy Toes/Cyndy's Tiny Tootsies provides slippers, hats, mittens and scarves to children ages birth to 12 years in the White Pine County area of Nevada..

South African Based Charities

The Baby Pack Project
South African charity which provides a pack of the most basic items needed for a new born baby under-privileged mothers of newborn babies on the lower south coast of Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. They say that anything you can knit for a baby would be gratefully received, and have a couple of suggested patterns on their website.

Knit-a-Square
South African charity that asks you to knit squares which they will then sew together into blankets for children, particularly in Africa.

Please let us know about any charity knitting events or campaigns and we will be pleased to list them here. Contact Us

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Get the kids knitting with these cute knitting kits. They all consist of small, quick to complete items which will maintain a young child's interest right through to the end of the project. Great fun for grown-ups too!

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