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I am sure that you have all seen news of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan and are feeling as sad as I am about the inevitable suffering of the people caught in its path. MSF are acting as quickly as they can to get medics and supplies to those in need. […]

Lighting the Knit Signal – Philippines Appeal

12 Nov, 2013 in All Blog posts / msf tagged appeal / charity / Doctors Without Borders / Donate / donations / fundraising / help / just giving / knitting / medecins sans frontieres / msf / p-hop / Philippines / Thank you / Typhoon Haiyan by Katestwirl

Well, we are back from Fibre East and have recovered from the busy weekend. We had a great time catching up with supporters and meeting new ones. I was there all day on Saturday and Clare all day Sunday and quite a good chunk of Saturday too. I had a […]

Fabulous Fun at Fibre East

6 Aug, 2013 in All Blog posts / On the road tagged charity / Doctors Without Borders / Donate / fibre east / fundraising / hats / just giving / knitting / medecins sans frontieres / msf / p-hop / pattern / phop / socks / Thank you by Katestwirl

Last week Natalie (founder of p/hop) and I (p/hop coordinator) headed to Shoreditch town hall for the 2012 Just Giving awards. Natalie and I had been on the judging panel for this year’s awards and had been invited to the ceremony which was a great honour. The evening began with […]

Award giving p/hop

7 Mar, 2012 in All Blog posts / Events tagged awards / bob wilson / inspiring / joanna lumley / just giving / knitting / phop by Clare

On a rainy Thursday evening I squeezed onto a packed bus up to Holloway, skipped over puddles and headed to the mighty Emirates Stadium. As you probably know p/hop was nominated for Most Creative Fundraiser at the Just Giving Awards, so I soon was transported from rainy London to the […]

And the winner is…

11 Feb, 2011 in All Blog posts / Events / Sponsored knitter tagged Aresnal / JGawards / just giving / knitting / Natalie Fergie / Pete's scarf / theyarnyard / winners by Clare

…you will see our new video made by Ghadas who is a nurse working for MSF in Nigeria who is also a fan of the fibre arts. Once you’ve watched Hadas’s video scroll down and check our current out UK total. Not bad eh? I was hoping we’d reach our […]

If you look to the right…

4 Feb, 2011 in All Blog posts / On the road tagged blanket / crochet / just giving / knitting / Nigeria / Total / video by Clare