BIG KNIT 2010

Several ladies from ‘Knit and Natter’ have been supporting the ‘Big Knit 2010’ venture. Age Concern Frome has been given the task of producing 500 knitted little hats as their contribution to the national target of 800,000 hats!

These hats will sit on Innocent smoothie bottles in Sainsbury’s stores from November 3rd. For every bottle sold, Innocent and Sainsbury’s will give 25p to Age UK to help fund winter warmth projects for many people in later life. 80% of the money raised will fund projects on a local level and 20% towards funding national winter warmth activity.

Last year was a huge success with knitters up and down the country getting involved in making 444, 025 little woollen hats. This year it is hoped that the ‘Big Knit’ will be even bigger, producing more hats and therefore more money! Age Concern Frome trust that knitters of all ages in Frome will get out their needles, wool and easy pattern to achieve our target – or to do even better!

At the time of writing this, Age Concern Frome has received 900 completed woolly hats, almost twice the allocated target for Frome - and the date for handing in the completed hats (October 5th )is still ten days away! After this date, I shall pop a postscript in this blog to let you know how many hats our ladies from ‘Knit and Natter’ completed and the total number of hats Age Concern Frome finally acquired.

Wendy.

Will post a few pics next tuesday. Please send some in if you have any you want to share