Kit Aid

What is KitAid?

KitAid is a charity that sends unwanted football kit to children and adults across Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

It started in 1998 when Derrick Williams, Three Valleys Water employee, visited Tanzania with the charity WaterAid. Derrick, who is passionate about football, realised that the young children in villages in Tanzania shared the same love of football.

When he returned home, Derrick spoke to work colleagues and friends and shortly afterwards the first box of donated football kit was on its way to the children he'd met in Tanzania.

The willingness of people around him, led Derrick on to set up KitAid and the appeal has grown year on year with a total of around 10,000 children receiving shirts, kit and footballs in Tanzania, Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Eastern Europe.

If you would like to find out more about some of the campaigns, click through to their website or if you have any item of unwanted kit to donate, all donations will be greatly appreciated.  We can guarantee that your donation will bring a smile to a child's face and it will be valued for many years to come.

Please donate any

  • Unwanted Replica Shirts - England, Premiership, Football League, Foreign Teams
  • Unused Team Football Kits - Shorts & Shirts
  • Football Shorts, Goalkeepers Gloves, Football Boots

Registered charity (no.113968)

Sending your Kit

We have a collection box here at the Kitlocker.com warehouse so feel free to drop stuff in otherwise kits can we be sent direct to the address below.
 

KitAid
c/o Three Valleys Water
Tamblin Way
Hatfield
Herts
AL10 9EZ
 
Visit the Kit Aid website at: www.3valleys.co.uk/kitaid
 
Contact: Derrick Williams
Tel: 01707 277689
Email: kitaid@3valleys.co.uk

2010 Christmas Message

Another record breaking year for KitAid and some of the highlights have been

 

  • 33,700 items of kit sent out to 37 countries across the World (at no expense to KitAid)
  • 900 footballs and 7,000 Match Attax cards have also been delivered
  • We have now sent out more than 140,000 items of kit since KitAid started in 1998
  • We visited Nairobi in June with the RAF charity “Taking football to Africa and beyond”
  • We appeared on the BBC News during the trip as Mark Robson of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was interviewed
  • We were featured in the Mail on Sunday, Daily Star, The Sun and many regional newspapers during the trip
  • The hard court sports arena we funded was officially opened in March 2010 in Sierra Leone
  • We sponsored the Ballysillan YFC Football Camp in Belfast
  • We have increased the number of Regional Co-ordinators we have but are always looking for more!
  • We have received continued support from PUMA UK as well as other manufacturers such as

The Great Branding Company, Tempest Sports, DPM Sports and Kitlocker

 

We have also received tremendous support from

 

·         Liverpool FC, Cardiff City FC, Watford FC, Tranmere Rovers FC, Partick Thistle FC, Stenhousemuir FC, Bishop’s Stortford FC, Chesham United FC, FC United of Manchester, Witton Albion FC, Lordswood United FC, Sheffield FC, Fleet Town FC, Hinckley Utd FC and many hundreds of “grass roots” clubs from all across the UK

 

·         We would also like to thank our Patron, Graham Taylor OBE, for his continued support.

 

Happy Christmas from the KitAid team