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Knitting: everybody’s at it for charity
Needles have been clicking furiously at groups and schools across Swindon, and in the House of Commons.
The seventeen members of the Lower Shaw Farm knitting circle re- ment in advance of a UN Millenium Development Goals conference in
sponded to an Oxfam appeal for 250,000 knitted squares to be stitched September. The visual petition will represent the number of women who
together into a giant baby blanket to be presented to the UK govern- might have lived had they had access to adequate medical care.

Knitting the great big baby blanket petition for Oxfam
Children at St Francis Primary
School, above, learnt how to knit
for the Save the Children Fund Knit
One Save One campaign. They
SALE produced doz-
ens of hats
for newborns
EXTENDED
around the
through
world.
In Parlia-
September
ment, South
Swindon MP
Anne Snel-
grove, right,
found time to have a go.
Slimming World organiser Shar-
on Painter, below, helped the knit-
ters at Moredon Primary School
by recruiting two group members
Doris Scutts and Marion Field.
The ‘Knit One, Save One’ cam-
paign ends on 21 October. Knit
kits can be obtained by calling
0207 012 6705 or from: www.
savethechildren.org.uk/knitting

Local project
needs knitters

Age Concern Swindon is calling
on knitters to produce tiny bobble
hats to decorate Innocent drinks
on sale in Sainsbury’s.
If volunteers can produce 12,000
mini-hats Age Concern Swindon
stands to gain £6,000 towards
essential work with older people
this winter.
Special knitting patterns are
available from Age Concern Swin-
don on 692166 (Open weekdays
10am - 4pm).

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