UK knitters donate 60 hats a day to SCF campaign
Howard Lake | 11 April 2008 | News
Save the Children’s new knitting campaign has benefited considerably from TV presenter Paul O’Grady’s coverage of it on his Channel 4 show. In the past 12 days since the show the charity has received donations of 12,000 knitted baby hats.
The woolly hats are needed to help save the lives of newborn babies, over one million of whom each year do not survive beyond their first day of life. The hat helps prevent a dangerous drop in body temperature, which can make babies prone to catching pneumonia.
Campaigning knitters are being asked to fill in an action card which Save the Children will send to Gordon Brown asking him to prioritise saving children’s lives.
Paul O’Grady will be talking more about his involvement with Save the Children’s campaign on this Friday’s show (11 April).
He said: “If something as simple as a knitted hat can help to save a child’s life then we should all get knitting! It’s as simple as its name – knit one, save one!”
Save the Children wants to get 10 million people taking action for the 10 million children still dying before the age of five by 2010.
www.savethechildren.org.uk/knitting
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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.
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