Kit Aid is a registered Charity which collects and sends no longer wanted football kit (shirts, shorts, boots, goalie gloves and shin pads in good condition) to children and adults who also love football but also live in some of the poorest parts of the World. 

If you'd like to bring smiles to children who are as passionate about football as you are, its time to tackle your own 'boot rooms', bedrooms, lofts and garages and deliver any clean unwanted kit in a plastic bag or bin bag to our instore 'Collection Point'

KitAid does not have the funds to equip every child, club or community team with a football kit, boots and ball. But it can proudly boast that in the past record breaking year it has supplied 33,700 individuals. Since KitAid began in 1998, a staggering 140,000 items of kit have been handed over around the world cutting a trail of smiles and happy hearts in its path. Thanks to KitAid those youngsters can step out proudly in their donated kit and enjoy the emotions of pride, achievement, team work and belonging. Perhaps, amongst one of those recipients there may just be another talented Pele shaping up in a KitAid donated football shirt just waiting to make their mark on the pitch and in international football. “The need for football kit never goes away. We do our best to meet that need and KitAid goes from strength to strength with the amount of football kit it is sending out,” said Derrick Williams MBE, KitAid founder. “We’ve had another record breaking year and achieved so much. I am proud of everyone who gives their time and energy to KitAid. I still think of the little boy wearing the tattered Liverpool shirt in 1998 who sparked the idea of setting KitAid up. If only he knew he was responsible for reaching similar kids all across the globe!” Surviving on just £1.50 per month is a daily struggle that has been recognised by Kids Alive charity who have built a school in Bekoiji to provide an education and a daily meal for up to 300 students.  In summer 2010 a sports team from the UK visited the school and took 1,000 KitAid donated football shirts forthe students. Their report back was uplifting. KitAid have literally put “shirts on the backs” of the students. Not only have KitAid brought smiles to thefaces of the children in Bokoiji, they have given them a third or fourth piece of clothing that they will cherish forever. Many of the children will wear these shirts not only during the day but also at night when they sleep dreaming of playing football