Smalls for All

Please send donations to Five Sisters Business Park or try our buy-to-give scheme
August 2024 – Talking Pants
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Thank you for your PANTASTIC donations!
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Smalls for All

3 days 19 hours ago

Today, we celebrate International Day of Charity 🫶 A reminder of the power of kindness and the difference we can make when we come together. Charity is more than just giving; it's about showing compassion, standing up for those in need, and making the world a better place one small act at a time.

At Smalls we aim to uplift those who need it most, providing essential (underwear) items and opportunities that can transform lives. We know there are many, many worthy causes out there and we can't thank you enough for your support. It's all thanks to your generosity we're able to do this.
Maria 🧡

#InternationalDayOfCharity #KindnessMatters #MakeADifference

Smalls for All

1 week 2 days ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide underwear to Uganda Youth Soccer Academy recently.

The organisation’s Ivan Kakembo told us, “You can make a big difference, make a magic transformation for children who do not have any social relatives that can support them. Children who mainly live as orphans in the slum and streets around the Academy training field, with no school, and only one meal a day, not existing and totally forgotten by any authorities, and a very poor future with no access to basic needs like clothing. We are fighting day and night to open up the eyes of organisations around the world and people everywhere, to see that there are children here in really need of basic needs and everyone who cares, can change the future and write a new story. The children involved in our project have nothing and need everything.”

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

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
www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

Smalls for All

1 week 4 days 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.

✨ 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 or buy from an online retailer who will deliver to us.

✨ 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.

Smalls for All

1 week 5 days ago

As of the 20th Aug, thanks to you, we’ve collected...🥁
2,284,196 new pants and new/gently worn bras!!

The demand is greater than ever to help collect underwear for people in need. Every item makes a difference. Please help share this post so we can reach more people to help our cause,
Maria 🙏

Smalls for All updated their cover photo.

2 weeks 12 hours ago

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2 weeks 4 days ago

Thank you everyone for your pantastic donations last month! 🩲

Since our last Talking Pants, we’ve provided new pants and new & gently worn bras to 10 organisations:

🩲170 pairs of pants to the School Bank, West Lothian.
🩲377 pairs of pants to the NNLS Destitute Asylum Seekers Drop In, an organisation based in London.
🩲860 pairs of pants to Care4Calais (Slough/Heathrow).
🩲14 bras to the Salvation Army in Bath for their women’s safehouse for victims of modern slavery.
🩲240 pairs of pants and bras to Quaker Social Action based in London for their Turn a Corner project.
🩲39,000 pairs of pants and bras to the Peaceful Trust for distribution to projects they support in Zambia.
🩲1,250 pairs of pants for the Edinburgh School Uniform Bank.
🩲930 pairs of pants and bras to ShowerBox, an organisation providing showers, toiletries and underwear to anyone in need.
🩲150 pairs of pants and bras to Two Brews, a homeless charity based in Manchester.
🩲1,386 pairs of pants and bras to the Uganda Youth Soccer Academy, supporting street children in Kampala.

💞 If you'd like to donate new pants or new or gently worn bras, please send donations to the address below or use our buy-to-give page (link in bio)

📦 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

Don't forget to include your email address in the parcel so we can acknowledge receipt ☺️

Smalls for All

2 weeks 4 days ago

I’ve been talking pants again!
This time it's all about our 14th birthday (how did that happen?!), our buy-to-give wish list and all the amazing organisations we've helped this month!

You can read it here www.smallsforall.org/talking-pants-august-2024/
Maria 🧡🩲🙏

Talking Pants – July 2024

Total underwear collected is 2,239,819Thank you for sending us a pantastic 1,505 parcels in June.Since our last Talking Pants, we’ve provided new pants and new & gently worn bras to 13 organisations:86 pairs of pants to Days for Girls (North Herts) for inclusion in hygiene kits going to Angola.330...

Smalls for All

2 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide underwear to Uniform Exchange in Huddersfield recently.
The organisation’s Vicky Clegg told us, “We collect, sort, check and store school uniform, PE kit, underwear and coats, and we distribute them for free to children across the Kirklees area. Some of our area is within the most deprived 10% area of England. Last year over 10,000 children were in need of our help.”
Thank you for helping us to help them,
Maria. 🩲🩳🙏
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
www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

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3 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide new pants to Little Green Sock Project recently.
The organisation’s Catherine D’Albertansan told us, “Thank you, Smalls for All, for your incredible support in providing new underwear for our clothing packs. The generosity of your supporters ensures that every child we support can have a dignified experience. Really grateful for the support.”
Thank you for helping us to help them,
Maria. 🩲🩳🙏
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
www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

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3 weeks 3 days ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide underwear to Streets Kitchen recently.
The organisation’s Elodie Berland told us, “We are a grassroots organisation working with people experiencing homelessness; providing food and essentials on the streets. The underwear will be going to outreaches all across London to people sleeping rough.”
Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏
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
www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

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3 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide underwear to Ten Little Toes Baby Bank recently.
The organisation’s Joanna Petty told us, “We support families in crisis across West Sussex with baby and children equipment and clothing. Underwear and pyjamas are always something we are very short on and need. We believe in gifting a gift of love, hope and dignity to lift families and support them.”
Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏

Smalls for All

4 weeks 1 day ago

🎂 Celebrating 14 years of Smalls for All!
Here's what we've achieved so far thanks to your support...

🩲 2,239,819 items of underwear collected
🩲 2,205,419 items of underwear distributed
🚚 517 requests fulfilled from partner charities and organisations who help distribute the underwear
🌍 17 visits to Africa to distribute underwear
📦 27 countries have received donations across the UK & Africa
🩲 8 months since we launched our buy-to-give wish list
👍 121,700 followers on social media
💌 3,922 supporters who subscribe to our monthly Talking Pants newsletter
💰 £1,128.25 raised for us by supporters who have recycled their ink cartridges with Recycle4Charity
💰 £8,211.41 raised for us by supporters who have shopped through Easyfundraising
🧑‍🎓 1 MBE, 1 Honorary Doctorate from the Open University Scotland and Point of Light awarded
☕️ 5,110 cups of coffee to keep me going
🤗 100s of amazing volunteers, giving up their time to help - NONE of this is possible without you
...and of course 1000s of you who have sent us donations, run sponsored events, bought on our wish list and donated money.

Than you for the bottom of our hearts for making this possible,
Maria 🧡

Smalls for All

4 weeks 1 day ago

YOU DID IT! We had a target to 14,000 pairs of pants donated through our buy-to-give wish list to celebrate our 14th birthday, and we achieved 14,756 🥳

Thank you so much for your support, please help us keep it going. 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. Plus it's quick and easy to do.

www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

Maria 🧡

Smalls for All

4 weeks 1 day ago

Celebrating 14 years of Smalls for All! 🥳🎂🧡

As most of you may know, Smalls for All started after what was to be a one-off collection of underwear for an orphanage in Ethiopia. Never did I imagine that 14 years later we would have distributed over 2.2 million pairs pants and bras, and be supporting adults and children in the UK as well as Africa.

I'm really proud to be part of the Smalls team giving dignity to people in need, but there is a part of me that wishes Smalls didn't need to exist. Times remain incredibly tough for some people, reflected in the ever-increasing number of requests we receive for underwear.

So, I’d like to say a huge thanks to you – our friends and supporters – for continuing to help us provide dignity to as many people as we possibly can.

Maria 🙏

Smalls for All

1 month 1 day ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide underwear to Quaker Social Action recently.
The organisation’s Sam Cook told us, “We are a community library for people experiencing homelessness. We provide conversation and books as well as other items of need. These include sims, wash items, sanitary products and food to name a few. We will be handing out the underwear to support our readers in difficult circumstances.”
Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏

Smalls for All

1 month 2 days ago

Great to hear that ten thousand pairs of underwear which were used in Charli XCX and Billie Eilish's latest music video have been donated to charity! Nothing should go to waste when so many are in need 🩲💗

Guess: Charli XCX and Billie Eilish donate pants from new video

A video for the Guess remix features thousands of pairs of underwear and Billie Eilish on a bulldozer.

Smalls for All

1 month 2 days ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide pants to Thondwe Girls Project recently. The Thondwe Girls Project is one of the projects within the Thondwe Partnership which links Thondwe CCAP church and community in Malawi with Innerleithen Traquair and Walkerburn church and community in the Scottish Borders.

The Scottish Project Leader, Lois Hindley, told us, “We provide girls from Thondwe Primary School, Thondwe, near Zomba, Malawi with the means to manage their menstruation with dignity and confidence. 150 girls each year receive a kit with washable pads (shields and liners), two pairs of pants and a soap. One kit will enable a girl to attend school throughout the days of her period for 3 years and so make progress through school. The kits are made locally and distributed to the girls during a workshop where they learn the relevant information about how to look after the kit and themselves as they grow and develop. The pants are an essential part of the kit.

“Hannah was one of the girls who received a menstrual hygiene kit at the Thondwe Church distribution of 50 kits in 2017. At that time she was attending the local primary school. Recently she said, ‘Before I got my kit I had to use a piece of cloth when I had my period and I was scared to go to school as my pants were not good. I would be embarrassed in case I got a stain on my clothes and was laughed at. Since getting the kit I’ve been able to go to school every day and join in with sports activities such as netball.’

“Now Hannah is in Form 3 at St Anthony’s secondary school and earlier this year received a replacement menstrual hygiene kit. She hopes to complete her secondary education at the end of 2025.”

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

Smalls for All

1 month 4 days ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide underwear to the Amuka Foundation recently.
The organisation’s Jane Ainslie told us, “The Amuka Foundation was set up to change the lives of young people in Kenya, providing them with the education and skills they need. The girls in our Amuka Twende programme were thrilled with their bra and pants donations. We were able to give them each 5 pairs of pants and 3 bras which is more generous than we've ever been able to be in the past. Your generous donation really has made a huge difference to their dignity and as a result self-confidence.”
Thank you for helping us to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏

Smalls for All

1 month 6 days ago

1 WEEK TO GO! 🎯🩲
To celebrate 14 years of Smalls for All, we'd like to reach 14,000 pairs of pants donated on our buy-to-give wish list.
Thank you to everyone who has donated, shared our post and offered support. It's greatly appreciated.

Donating through buy-to-give on our website 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. Plus there are no postage or shipping costs added.

Maria 🧡

Smalls for All

1 month 1 week ago

Thanks to you, we were able to provide underwear to Stephen Watt recently for Wakiso Girls’ Football Academy in Uganda.

Stephen told us, “I am collecting football kits and equipment on behalf of Wakiso Girls’ Football Academy in Uganda. This is an impoverished country desperately in need of donations, and the underwear provided by Smalls for All will be used by girls who are disabled, orphaned/semi-orphaned and able-bodied.

“On top of donating the underwear, Maria has been supportive in terms of making the contacts needed to ship the donation to Uganda and providing advice on logistics. It would not be embellishing things by saying that without her help, this project may never have lift off.

“My contact in Uganda has told me that she cannot find the exact words to express how happy she is. The donations from the likes of Smalls for All and such feedback is all the validation I’ll ever need.”

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

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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
August 2024 – Talking Pants
Donate for free when you shop online
Thank you for your PANTASTIC donations!
Donate for free when you recycle ink cartridges