The Big Knit

Do you know someone in Powys who loves to knit or crochet?

Why not print off some of the lovely little knitted hat patterns for them below...

Thanks to Innocent Smoothies, we receive 25p for every hat sent to our offices in Newtown or Llandrindod to help maintain our services for older Powys residents!

Last year we sent in over 15,000 little hats – a big thank you to all our big knitters for your fantastic fundraising for us!

Close-up of the knitted hats

Did you know the Big Knit started in Powys?

The Big Knit started back in 2003 in Montgomery, Powys, with an idea. The kind people at Innocent Smoothies asked some older people, and some younger people, to knit little woolly hats. Innocent put those hats on their smoothies, and for each one sold they made a donation of 25p to the local Age Cymru / Age UK.

The idea snowballed and so far the people of the UK have knitted an astonishing 7 million hats. So far The Big Knit has raised over £2.4 million for Age Cymru and Age UK and we hope to raise much more in the future.

Lots of knitted little hats

If you’ve ever bought a smoothie or knitted a hat, thank you for being part of the Big Knit.

Send us your knitted hats!

You can send your knitted hats into our offices in Newtown or Llandrindod Wells, or pop them into the offices in person - we would love to see you and thank you personally for your support. Thank you for your help!

Find out where to send in your hats here