AGE CYMRU CALLING ON ALL AVID KNITTERS FOR THE BIG KNIT

Calling all knitters
Time to dig out those knitting needles for the Big Knit

It’s the return of the Big Knit campaign and Age Cymru Sir Gâr is calling on Carmarthenshire & Pembrokeshire to join in and get knitting!

Whether a knitting ninja, purling pro, crochet connoisseur or just keen to have a go it’s time to get wild about wool and join the Big Knit. Now in it’s 15th year, the campaign is recruiting knitters to help create an impressive 1.6 million hats to adorn innocent smoothie bottles. For each be-hatted smoothie sold*, Age UK receives 25p, and that money helps the Charity support older people who are facing later life alone.

Ann Dymock, Chief Officer of Age Cymru Sir Gâr said:

“We need the people of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire to join us and help knit as many miniature hats as possible this winter to help us hit our 2000 target. It’s such a fun campaign to get behind and it does so much to help older people in our area.

“The money raised will make a big difference to the lives of older people by funding our hugely important services. These services, which include welfare benefit eligibility checks and support to complete benefit forms such as attendance allowance, council tax, housing benefit forms and more, accessing warm home discounts, as well as access to information, advice and guidance on a huge range of issues affecting later life, such as housing or consumer issues. The charity also spreads awareness of various safety campaigns such as scams awareness to keep people safe at home.”

Last year alone, more than one million hats were lovingly created, with designs including the hugely popular unicorn, grizzly bear, fluffy sheep and desert island.

Bara Amouyal, innocent drinks said:

“The Big Knit has had such an incredible amount of support over the past 15 years and we are hugely grateful – we love seeing what miniature creations the nation can come up with! Through the Big Knit campaign, we want to do everything we can to make a difference to the lives of older people.”

For more information on The Big Knit contact Age Cymru Sir Gar on 01554 784080 or visit www.agecymru.org.uk/sirgar or email info@agecymrusirgar.org.uk. Please send completed hats to Age Cymru Sir Gar, at Units 5-11, 100 Trostre Road, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire SA15 2EA.

This year’s hat knitting/crocheting patterns are available to download, to find out more visit: www.ageuk.org.uk/bigknit or contact us as above for paper copies of the pattern.