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Meet Kirkstall-based Hookers and Clickers Do It For Charity
National World - LocalTV
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04/12/2024
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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My name is Joanne Brophy and we are at Kirkstall Valley Development Trust which
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is held in St Stephen's Hub at Kirkstall. Hookers and Clickers is a group of
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people who are changing the world one stitch at a time and every stitch is
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filled with love and overall we've looked after 97 charities and we've made
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over a hundred and thirty thousand items for those charities and we make
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everything for free. We raise the money for the yarn, we spend our time making
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things and then we post it or go and visit the charities if it's very local
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and drop the things off. As we all know the older people are not getting as much
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money as they would towards the heating so charities such as Harmony Helping
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Hands have come to us, Hartlepool Baby Bank, Leeds Baby Bank, they're all needing
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now to keep older people, families, young families warm so lots of hats and
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gloves and scarves and family-sized blankets they can wrap themselves up in.
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We've had so much we've had to say no to some people because we just don't have
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the number of people to make the amount that is needed. You know if we had some
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more people making we'd be able to do it but we've had a lot of demand and it is
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simply because it's money, it's heating bills, it really has a knock-on effect so
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we're quite pleased we can do even though it's only a tiny bit we're doing
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something to help people in that respect. We've done lots of twiddle muffs and
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cannula sleeves which help disabled autistic people when they're having
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cannulas fitted so they don't fiddle with them. We need people who are
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actually going to make things for the charities. The more people we've got the
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more charities we can help and nowadays it's just we need it just more and
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we need to keep going there's no way this group can fold especially for the
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ladies you know they need it as much as the charities need it.
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