Hi, our names are Bella, Susie, and Zara. We currently volunteer at Operation Orphan for our DofE volunteering section and we volunteer for 1 hour a week after school.
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Will Merritt, Head Boy at Nottingham High School, took part in the Great Manchester Run to raise funds for Operation Orphan which is the nominated charity for Mellers House.
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Last week, I visited the team at Danbro and The Media Collective to get an insight into their world and the fantastic work that they do.
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Last Thursday, we successfully sorted through all of your lovely donations with the help of our fantastic volunteers! We’re so happy to have boxed everything in preparation for our next distribution - hooray!
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A few months ago, some of Nottingham High School’s students organized and carried out a swimathon fundraiser for us! We are so grateful to everyone who participated in this event. The students raised an impressive £2,137.24 which we are absolutely blown away by! Well done team!
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Over the last few weeks, we have been receiving so many comments from you guys spotting your handmade blankets!
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We are so grateful for all the support we have received in our response to the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria this month.
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Less than a year has passed since Operation Orphan sent their Crisis Response Team head-first to the Ukraine border, in an effort to protect vulnerable children through counter exploitation measures.
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A few weeks ago, we had an amazing day with some even more amazing volunteers sorting and packing donations we have received for our Keep a Child Warm project (some of which is already on its way to Ukraine!).
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We are so lucky to have had some amazing volunteers helping out in our warehouse in recent months,
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The fantastic ‘Team 2’ of NCS Student’s summer program organized and hosted a car wash to fundraise for us!
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In honor of the new Minions movie that has just hit theaters this weekend, we thought we would share this STUNNING blanket we received a few weeks ago!
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We are so grateful to the children, staff and parents of St Laurence CE Primary School in Lancashire for their support to Pencott. A smashing total of £550 raised to help fund some new school furniture at the school in Uganda.
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After pausing collections of coats for the past two years, we are excited to be reopening our UK Keep a Child Warm coat collections.
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In the fall of last year, Liz got in touch with us on behalf of Stella, a lovely lady with a passion and talent for knitting, who was looking for a charity to donate her knitted creations to.
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Waste Nott Want Nott is still here to help you, help the environment, and help vulnerable children.
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We’ve continued delivering essential services throughout all lockdowns, and we’re not stopping now.
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We are so grateful for all the support we have received for Keep a Child Warm over the years - from coats, to knitted items, to financial donations, we couldn’t have kept over 10,000 children warm without YOU.
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We love to it when people reach out to us to find out more about what we do. It’s amazing to be able to share stories of our work and connect with our supporters! Read on to find out what happened when Alicia got in touch with us earlier this year…
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We are so grateful to have received warm, strong, and beautiful blankets from crafters all over the country.
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