I’ve recently come across a couple of knitting groups organising fundraisers for MSF and Haiti. This is a great idea. What’s better than meeting with like minded people to swap knitting tips and yarn and enjoy some tea and cake while raising money for a brilliant charity.

These sort of events are fairly easy to set up. If you already meet at a venue all you need to do is advertise your next meeting as a fundraiser (you may get some new members), organise some raffle prizes (it’s amazing how generous people are when you ask), ask people to make cakes and then suggest a minimum donation for tea and cake. You can print out some p/hop patterns for donations and spread the p/hop word amongst other knitters.

If you’re feeling inspired please get in touch (email P-HOP@london.msf.org) or contact the MSF fundraising team as we can send out a pack with posters and leaflets about MSF as long as we have enough notice.

I knit London are holding a tea party on Saturday 23rd January 2010 from 1pm onwards with raffle prizes, lucky dips, quizzes and cake. The I Knit shop details are here.

The London Stitch and Bitch group are having a special yarn swapping for donations meeting for Haiti on Monday 1st February from 6pm at the Stamford Arms, 62 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9LX

If you are having an event let me know and I’ll post the details here. If you’d like to write a review of a fundraising event for the blog we’d love to hear from you.