Thank you to our Big Knitters

The Big Knit has finished for this year and Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin would like to thank our community of knitters for supporting the campaign and knitting little hats to raise funds to support older people in Telford and Shropshire.

The Big Knit is a joint campaign between Age UK and innocent drinks. Every little knitted hat sent to innocent is placed on top of a smoothie bottle and for every smoothie sold, the local charity receives 25p.

Despite all the interruptions caused by the pandemic, our knitters persevered and thanks to their hard work and dedication, we were able to beat our target of 6000 hats: we received an amazing 7600 hats!

Catherine McCloy, Head of Income Generation at Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin said: ‘We are so grateful to people who have given up their time, energy and wool to create these wonderful little hats and raise funds to support local older people. It’s such a fun campaign to get behind and it does so much to help older people in our county.’

The money raised will help to support Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin’s services and classes, which offer local older people the chance to make friends, learn new skills and most importantly, have fun.

For more information on any of our fundraising opportunities and campaigns please get in touch by emailing fundraising@ageukstw.org.uk or call 01743 233 123.