Kirkstall group ‘Hookers and Clickers Do It For Charity’, who have made over 130,000 items for 97 charities, are already preparing to make hats, scarves and gloves for their Winter 2025 project to help keep vulnerable people warm.
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00:00My name is Joanne Brophy and we are at Kirkstall Valley Development Trust which
00:05is held in St Stephen's Hub at Kirkstall. Hookers and Clickers is a group of
00:11people who are changing the world one stitch at a time and every stitch is
00:17filled with love and overall we've looked after 97 charities and we've made
00:23over a hundred and thirty thousand items for those charities and we make
00:28everything for free. We raise the money for the yarn, we spend our time making
00:35things and then we post it or go and visit the charities if it's very local
00:39and drop the things off. As we all know the older people are not getting as much
00:44money as they would towards the heating so charities such as Harmony Helping
00:50Hands have come to us, Hartlepool Baby Bank, Leeds Baby Bank, they're all needing
00:55now to keep older people, families, young families warm so lots of hats and
01:00gloves and scarves and family-sized blankets they can wrap themselves up in.
01:05We've had so much we've had to say no to some people because we just don't have
01:08the number of people to make the amount that is needed. You know if we had some
01:14more people making we'd be able to do it but we've had a lot of demand and it is
01:18simply because it's money, it's heating bills, it really has a knock-on effect so
01:24we're quite pleased we can do even though it's only a tiny bit we're doing
01:29something to help people in that respect. We've done lots of twiddle muffs and
01:33cannula sleeves which help disabled autistic people when they're having
01:39cannulas fitted so they don't fiddle with them. We need people who are
01:42actually going to make things for the charities. The more people we've got the
01:46more charities we can help and nowadays it's just we need it just more and
01:52we need to keep going there's no way this group can fold especially for the
01:56ladies you know they need it as much as the charities need it.