Smalls for All

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April 2024 – Talking Pants
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Smalls for All

15 minutes 47 seconds ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide underwear to Anawim recently, a charity supporting women and girls in Birmingham 🧡

The organisation’s Harpreet Singh told us, “At Anawim, most of the women we work with have suffered trauma, violence or abuse at some point in their lives – whether it’s through domestic or financial abuse, sexual trauma, homelessness, mental illness or through involvement with the criminal justice system. Amongst other things, we offer them food and clothes parcels. Often the women are in desperate need of underwear which is always in short supply.”

Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏

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2 days 1 hour ago

Please share... 🙌 Get involved! 🧡 The more people we can engage with our cause, the more people we can help.

There are so many smart ways you can help Smalls – some of them at no cost whatsoever. Find out more here - www.smallsforall.org/get-involved/

✨ Buy to give 🩲
We’ve set up a buy-to-give wish list so that we can buy pants wholesale. Simply ‘buy’ from us and we purchase on your behalf, saving postage and giving access to keener prices - www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

✨ Donate money 💸
There are some things pants can’t buy. A wee donation of ‘virtual knicker’ can make all the difference, as we always need funds to support our work.

✨ Donate underwear 🩲
We always need brand new pants – for women, children and men – and new or gently worn bras. You can buy and sent them to us yourself, buy from an online retailer who will deliver to us, or use our Amazon wish list or our own buy-to-give wish list.

✨ Organise a collection 📦
Our pantastic supporters often help us make a pile of pants (and bras!) by organising a collection at their office, club/social group or school/college/university.

✨ Organise a fundraiser 🎩
Whether you’re taking part in a marathon, danceathon or sponsored walk, you can pledge your sponsorship money to Smalls.

✨ Shop online 💻
By using the Easyfundraising platform, you can help Smalls receive a cash donation every time you shop or book online. For FREE!

✨ Shop with us 🛒
We have a wee website shop with some branded Smalls merchandise.

✨ Recycle stuff ♻
You can raise money for us by sending your empty ink cartridges or leftover currency to third-party organisations who donate the proceeds to us on your behalf.

✨ Send an e-card 🎈
Send a Smalls e-card to a friend, colleague or loved one, helping to spread the word about our charity. While there’s no charge, if you’d like to make a small donation we’d really appreciate it as every little helps.

✨ Volunteer 🕒
Charities rely heavily on volunteers, and we’re no different. If you’d like to get involved, we often have pantastic volunteering opportunities.

Smalls for All

4 days 1 hour ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide underwear to the Zambia and Malawi Community Partnership recently 🧡

The partnership’s Michael James told us, “We work through Tafika Youth Organisation, a Registered Community Based Organisation from rural northern Malawi. Tafika are a volunteer organisation operating in 500 villages and have created a Sports Academy structure containing over 200 teams (netball and football). Tafika use sport as a mechanism for behaviour change and their netball teams are now playing in the senior Malawian league and last year finished 6th. Malawi is ranked #6 in the world for Netball but the young women in the senior teams and the girls in the village teams play in their day clothes and often have no underwear and sports bras are unheard of. This project aims to equip 20 village netball teams with the underwear they need to be able to play in comfort.

“Tafika use any donations wisely, they don’t just give things away, instead they ask teams to volunteer for other community activities as a quid pro quo. This might be helping in the school gardens where Tafika are delivering home Grown School Feeding programs (Last year Tafikas volunteers grew and delivered over 1,000,000 meals in 10 schools). This is all about communities coming together and helping one another and donations like this are an important catalyst for community volunteerism as well as solving a very basic need among young women and girls.”

Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏

Smalls for All

1 week 15 minutes ago

Send a Smalls for All e-card to someone whatever the occasion, spreading the word about our cause and saving a few trees at the same time! 💌

Choose from 'Thank You', 'New Home', 'Happy Birthday' and 'Congratulations'.

While there’s no charge, if you’d like to make a donation for an amount of your choosing, it really will make a massive difference to us. We’re a small charity and every penny counts. Thank you!

📧 Send an e-card - www.smallsforall.org/send-an-e-card/

#charity #ecard #birthdaycard #newhome #congratulations #thankyou #pants #smallsforall

Smalls for All

1 week 2 days ago

Thanks to you, we were recently able to provide underwear to The Beatrice Project in Zimbabwe 🧡

The organisation’s Sue Hutchinson told us, “We support the Ntombi Nto Girl Child Network, a registered trust in Zimbabwe, which aims to give girls access to sanitary wear so that periods don’t stop them from attending school. Our support currently provides a choice of sanitary wear and a gift of pants to 300 girls each year. This makes such a difference to their education which can then continue uninterrupted.”
Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏

Smalls for All

1 week 4 days ago

Huge congratulations to the University of Strathclyde Netball Club who managed to complete their Seven Hills Challenge in good time with some fab weather and no injuries! 30km! Pantastic!

Half of the funds they raised will be coming to Smalls for All as they’re supporting us as their Charity of the Year, and we can’t thank them enough for their efforts on our behalf. Well done to all, thanks so much for your support! Maria

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2 weeks 14 hours ago

Please don’t forget to include an email address when you send us a parcel with a donation of underwear, as we love to be able to thank people. Many of the parcels we receive are anonymous. But where a parcel does include a note with an email address, we send a little acknowledgement/thank you email at the end of the month when we opened it. The notes then need to be destroyed and the records deleted for data protection reasons.

Unfortunately, each month a small number of emails bounce – either because there’s some technical issue that makes it undeliverable, or because we’ve misread your writing (or mistyped). If this has happened to you, please know that we value each and every donation and that your help is making a real difference. We couldn’t do what we do without you and truly appreciate your support.

Wee PS - thanks to this lady for her donation and kind words - we hope you're reading this - we couldn't find a note of your email address, but thanks so much for your donation 😊

Maria 🩲🩳🙏

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Smalls for All

2 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks to you, we were recently able to provide underwear to West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network, charity which aims to ensure that all West Lothian residents are aware of their financial choices and promotes access to financial advice, financial products and other services, particularly for the most excluded social group.

The organisation’s Carol Henry told us, “One of the parents of a family we support said, ‘You have no idea the peace of mind the undies give me - the kids go through them so quickly I can’t keep up. I struggle to keep up as the kids grow so fast.’
Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏

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2 weeks 4 days ago

Have you used our buy-to-give wishlist? 🩲

Here’s how it works:

💻 Visit the buy-to-give page on our website - www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

👉 Simply add any item to your basket and click on ‘checkout’ to purchase it.
👉 Shortly afterwards, you should receive a confirmation email.
👉 Once your order has been processed, you should also receive a thank-you email letting you know it’s been completed.

👏 You can relax now, knowing your gift of pants will make a real difference to someone in need.

Thank you for your pantastic support!

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3 weeks 14 hours ago

If you’d like to help raise funds, that would be Wonderful! 🧡

There are a number of ways you can help us raise the vital funds we need to continue our work, and every contribution helps, no matter how small.

👏 Take part in or organise an event
👏 Raise funds through your shopping by registering with easyfundraising
👏 Recycle your ink cartridges via Recycle4Charity

There's lots of information and ideas on how you can help raise funds on our website - www.smallsforall.org/get-involved/fundraise/

Thank you! Maria 🩲

Smalls for All

3 weeks 2 days ago

Our underwear goes a long way 🩲

Smalls for All is a charity that collects new pants and new or gently worn (laundered) bras for people in Africa and the UK who can’t afford or can’t get any. Because dignity matters.

Giving pants and bras may seem like a small thing, but it can make a life-changing difference. For example, each month many teenage girls miss school and women miss work because having no pants means they’re forced to stay at home during their period.

Boys and men need pants too of course, with requests coming from, for example, homeless charities and school banks.

In Africa, we help those living in orphanages, slums, IDP (internally displaced persons) camps and schools, as well as those in hospitals suffering from medical conditions like obstetric fistula. In the UK, we help charities and organisations supporting the homeless and people living in poverty or straitened circumstances.

Every pair of brand new pants and every new or gently worn bra you send helps us make a difference to someone’s life. As does every penny you’re able to give or raise for us to help carry out our work.

Please wrap or box up your donation and send to:

Smalls for All
Five Sisters Business Park
Westwood
West Calder
EH55 8PN

Or use our buy-to-give wishlist: www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

Thank you. Maria

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3 weeks 3 days ago

🩲 Please share our buy-to-give wishlist! 🩲

💻 www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

Looking for a quicker, easier and more economical way to donate underwear? We’ve set up this buy-to-give wish list so that you can purchase pants for us at wholesale prices, saving postage as well as benefiting from keen prices.

Donating this way also helps Smalls, because it means we can get exactly what we really need – sizes, quality, styles – at any time to be able to fulfil the underwear requests we receive.

Thank you or your pantastic support!

Smalls for All

4 weeks 1 day ago

Your March Pantastic update! 🩲

Since our last Talking Pants, we’ve provided new pants and new & gently worn bras to 9 organisations including:

⭐️ 300 pairs of pants to The Beatrice Project, an organisation working with the Ntombi Nto Girl Child Network, a registered trust in Zimbabwe. They are supporting schoolgirls by providing access to sanitary products.
⭐️ 595 pairs of pants to Care4Calais, Slough/Heathrow.
⭐️ 1,263 pairs of pants and bras to Demena, a charity supporting women in Northern Ethiopia.
⭐️ 386 pairs of pants and bras to The Nelson Trust for their women’s centres in Cardiff and Swansea.
⭐️ 20 pairs of pants to Days for Girls (Cuddington) to be included in their hygiene kits going to Africa.
⭐️ 850 pairs of pants to Baby Necessities, a baby bank providing essential items to children in Romsey.
⭐️ 1,025 pairs of pants and bras to Zambia and Malawi Community Partnership working with the Tafika Youth Organisation in the Mzuzu region of Malawi.
⭐️ 539 pairs of pants and bras to River Kids, an organisation supporting children and their families in the West Lothian area.
⭐️ 1,075 pairs of pants to Ten Little Toes Baby Bank, an organisation providing essential items to children in West Sussex.

Thank you so much! Maria 🩲

➡️ If you would like to donate new pants or new or gently worn bras to help people in Africa and the UK who can’t afford or don't have access to any please send donations to the address below or use our 'Buy to Give' page -
www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

📦 Donations of new pants and new or gently worn bras can be sent to Smalls for All, Five Sisters Business Park, Westwood, West Calder, EH55 8PN

Smalls for All

4 weeks 2 days ago

🩲 I’ve been talking pants again. Another busy month, with 9 organisations benefiting from your donations!

Find out more here - www.smallsforall.org/talking-pants-march-2024/

Maria

Smalls for All

1 month 2 days ago

Have you ever thought about the power of pants? 🩲

We collect only brand new pants and new or gently worn bras. We operate from the UK and support charitable organisations working on projects in Africa and the UK who are able to transport and distribute the underwear we collect.

In the time since we made this lovely video we've launched our buy-to-give wish list to make it even easier for you to donate 👉 www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

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Please send donations of NEW PANTS and NEW or GENTLY WORN BRAS to:

SMALLS FOR ALL, FIVE SISTERS BUSINESS PARK, WESTWOOD, WEST CALDER, EH55 8PN

#charity #smallsforall #pants #donate

Smalls for All

1 month 5 days ago

Thank you 🙌

Because of your generous donations we were able to provide underwear to Safer Wales recently 🧡

The organisation’s Catherine Linnie-Godden told us, “Thank you so much for the donation - the women we have managed to provide some of these to really appreciate them. One of the women even took pride in taking time to organise and store them in our centre! ‘I've only had one pair of underwear as someone had taken my other pairs where I am staying...I can't afford to buy a pack of underwear and being able to access these and a bra really make a difference, especially at the moment. Thank you so much!'"

Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏

Smalls for All

1 month 6 days ago

Thanks to you, we were recently able to provide underwear to The Cowshed, a Berkshire based charity which provides support to people of all backgrounds in a time of personal crisis 🧡

The organisation’s Becky Russell shared some feedback she’d received as an example of what this support means to their clients, “I wanted to email and say I am very thankful for the delivery you had given today – was more than I had needed. I was embarrassed to ask for help initially but with my undergarments being in pieces and one bra I couldn't bring myself to get these things for myself as I always needed to use the money for house utilities.”

Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏

Smalls for All

1 month 1 week ago

What to donate to Smalls for All...

Please donate new pants and new or gently worn (laundered) bras 🧡

For more information on what and how to donate please visit our website - www.smallsforall.org

Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲

Smalls for All

1 month 1 week ago

✨ International Women’s Day ✨

Smalls for All collects underwear for people in Africa and the UK who can’t afford or can’t get any. Because dignity matters. While we collect pants for men/boys as well as women/girls, today – International Women’s Day – we’re focusing on the need for women’s pants in particular. Can you help us?

Without pants, women and girls can’t deal effectively with their periods. We provide pants to organisations that produce hygiene kits to help them manage this. Here’s some of the things they’ve told us when requesting pants:

“The majority of the girls have no access to anything when they have their periods except using old rags, and as a result they skip school” (For-Ethiopia).

“60% of girls and women in Kenya do not have the means to manage their periods in a healthy way; they use ash, bits out their mattresses, rags, leaves or some just sit in a hole" (Freedom4Girls).

“If a family has to choose between buying knickers or eating, they will always buy food” (Action in Africa).

To help us to help them, simply send us a pack of new pants today, or try our new ‘buy-to-give’ wish list - www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

While we collect all sizes and colours, the women’s pants in greatest demand are black – in full brief, midi, mini or high leg – in sizes 8 to 10/12.

To find out more, please see bit.ly/underwear-sfa. Thank you! Maria

#internationalwomensday #internationalwomensday2024

Smalls for All

1 month 1 week ago

Thank you to the The Scotsman and easyfundraising.org.uk 🧡

Celebrate the incredible women in our community this International Women’s Day

There are always incredible women we remember on International Women’s Day on Friday note-0who paved the way for us, but we should also celebrate the women who are making a difference today too.

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We collect underwear
for people in need

Please send donations to Five Sisters Business Park or try our buy-to-give scheme
April 2024 – Talking Pants
Donate for free when you shop online
Thank you for your PANTASTIC donations!
Donate for free when you recycle ink cartridges