Marine get behind KitAid

Marine AFC are encouraging people in Crosby and surrounding areas to get behind the campaign by donating their unwanted football kits.

Football fans are being invited to drop off their old football shirts, shorts, boots, goalie gloves and shin pads on match days at their local club Marine at the Arriva Stadium in College Road, Crosby where they will be packaged up by the Evo-Stik League and sent to KitAid.

Alan Allcock, League Operations Manager for the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League, comments: “As a League, we know only too well the importance of giving young people and adults opportunities through sport so we’re taking this opportunity to appeal to local people to consider donating their old kit to a really worthy cause. Just give it a wash and drop it off at Marine on match days and we’ll do the rest.”

KitAid is a registered charity that collects and sends unwanted football kit to children and adults who love football but live in some of the poorest parts of the world. The charity, which has Graham Taylor OBE as its patron, has sent out over 150,000 kits to children and adults worldwide.

Derrick Williams MBE, KitAid’s founder, commented: “We’re delighted that the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League is working with us to give our campaign a boost and with such a strong fan base, I am sure plenty of kit will be donated. We see firsthand the difference that these donations can make to young people in some of the poorest parts of the world and would like to thank the people of Crosby in advance for getting involved.”

Marine will be accepting donations until the end of the 2011-12 season. For further details, call Marine FC Community officer Barry Lenton on 0151-924-1899.