Treloar Trust benefits from readers in stitches
Howard Lake | 10 December 2006 | News
Hampshire-based Treloar Trust is to benefit from sewn cross-stitch creations of favourite UK landmarks, skilfully made by readers of Cross Stitcher magazine.
Entries in a competition linked to the Postcards in Stitches initiative will raise funds for Treloar Trust, which provides education and independence training for young disabled students at Treloar College and Treloar School.
The cross-stitch postcards will adorn a large map of the UK at The Stitch & Craft Show in London’s Olympia 2 in March 2007, and will later decorate the walls of a new Hall of Residence to be built at Treloar’s – a development for which the competition is helping to raise funds.
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Treloar’s is celebrating its centenary and the idea for the charitable competition was born when Cross Stitcher magazine discovered Treloar’s founder Sir William Purdie Treloar raised funds by publishing the first postcards to be sold for charity.
Full details of the Postcards in Stitches charity competition, supported by Coats Crafts UK and Anchor, will appear in issues of Cross Stitcher from mid-December onwards.
Readers of the 70,000-circulation publication will raise money by entering and phoning or texting their answer to a competition question.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.