Madeleine Moon MP

Madeleine Moon MP - Working hard for Bridgend

Hats Hats Hats! Madeleine says Thank You!

Hats Hats Hats! Madeleine says Thank You!

Several months ago Madeleine Moon, Bridgend MP took up the challenge of encouraging groups to take part in the Save the Children ‘Knit One, Save One’ Hat campaign.

Madeleine said:

“The response has been overwhelming and within weeks bags of multi coloured hats were being delivered to my Bridgend office.  I had over two thousand hats stored and they just kept on coming. “

“All the Churches, Women’s Institutes, Voluntary organisations and many others have become involved and now that the campaign has ended I have collected over five thousand hats.”

“I invited all the knitters to a coffee afternoon to personally thank everyone for their wonderful response and a member of Save the Children charity came along to give a presentation and arrange collection of all the hats.”

All tea, coffee and biscuits were kindly donated by Tesco’s.

These hats will go to vulnerable newborn babies and children up to the age of 5.  They will be delivered all over Africa and Asia, and will help children survive by keeping them warm and preventing pneumonia, a major cause of death amongst children in these countries.

The Save the Children hat campaign has now ended but please visit: www.savethechildren.org.uk for more information of new campaigns and ways to help.