The Trust’s Knit and Natter group, run by Dabbie Dance, recently hosted and completed a 24-hour knitathon, which raised an impressive £2,600.
Half of the funds will go back into the group, and the other half will go towards helping a local girl called Maggie Barnes, who is the daughter of the Trust’s Oli Barnes.
Commenting on how the money will help his family, Oli said: “Half of that money is very generously coming to my family to help my daughter Maggie. For those who don’t know me or Maggie, Maggie’s non-verbal, non-mobile and button-fed, which means fed through her tummy.
“There are a lot of adaptations, a lot of things that we need to do that cost a lot of money. The NHS and the council do what they can, but there are a lot of things that we need to self-fund, and I can’t thank Debbie enough, from the bottom of my heart. They’ve made a lot of things more possible by being extremely generous, and I thank them from, like I say, the bottom of my heart.”
After completing the 24-hour challenge, Debbie commented: “It was 24 hours of non-stop knitting. We had an open event, so from 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, it was open to the general public for them to come along.
“They could have a go at knitting a square for a community blanket or knitting a heart for us to use on the Suicide Awareness Day match in September. People came along, had a cup of coffee, a cup of tea and a piece of cake. We had a raffle and tombola, and it was just like an extra-large Knit and Natter to raise some money.
“After 4pm, some of the ladies from my current groups stayed. Some of them did about 12 hours, and then there were eight of us who did the full 24 hours.”
