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(Lisa, two alternative dropdown options below)

Maria Macnamara MBE – Founder

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Maria Macnamara MBE, conceived and launched Smalls for All in 2009. Maria worked in financial services for 30 years and has been a children’s respite carer since 1997. In 2004 she decided to try a different kind of holiday and spent three weeks working with children in an orphanage in Brazil. This encouraged her to volunteer to work in Thailand in 2006 and Ethiopia in 2009.

It was following her experience in Ethiopia that she decided to set up Smalls for All.

In 2015 Maria was recognised as an inspirational volunteer and awarded a Point of Light Award by the Prime Minister. “Maria’s work will have had an immediate impact on the daily lives of thousands of women and I am delighted to recognise her service with this Point of Light Award.” Points of Life are outstanding individual volunteers – people who are making a change in their community. In 2016 Maria was honoured with an MBE.

Alan McCormick – Chairman

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Alan spent the majority of his career in the Aerospace and Defence industry. At the age of 50 he moved into the third sector and took on responsibility for Mission Direct, a Christian charity that builds schools, medical facilities, safe houses and homes for some of our world’s poorest in 11 countries round the world. He is passionate about supporting the vulnerable and those living on the edge.

Smalls for All captured his heart after he witnessed the amazing impact that giving someone their own underwear can have. Underwear not only restores dignity it allows the street kids to go swimming in public places, play football etc, etc.


Maria Macnamara MBE – Founder

Maria Macnamara MBE, conceived and launched Smalls for All in 2009. Maria worked in financial services for 30 years and has been a children’s respite carer since 1997. In 2004 she decided to try a different kind of holiday and spent three weeks working with children in an orphanage in Brazil. This encouraged her to volunteer to work in Thailand in 2006 and Ethiopia in 2009.

It was following her experience in Ethiopia that she decided to set up Smalls for All.

In 2015 Maria was recognised as an inspirational volunteer and awarded a Point of Light Award by the Prime Minister. “Maria’s work will have had an immediate impact on the daily lives of thousands of women and I am delighted to recognise her service with this Point of Light Award.” Points of Life are outstanding individual volunteers – people who are making a change in their community. In 2016 Maria was honoured with an MBE.

Alan McCormick – Chairman

Alan spent the majority of his career in the Aerospace and Defence industry. At the age of 50 he moved into the third sector and took on responsibility for Mission Direct, a Christian charity that builds schools, medical facilities, safe houses and homes for some of our world’s poorest in 11 countries round the world. He is passionate about supporting the vulnerable and those living on the edge.

Smalls for All captured his heart after he witnessed the amazing impact that giving someone their own underwear can have. Underwear not only restores dignity it allows the street kids to go swimming in public places, play football etc, etc.

17 hours ago

Smalls for All
Huge thanks for your pantastic parcels of donations, and please accept our apologies for the time it’s taking to acknowledge some of them. We were nicely on top of things mid-December, but then were closed over Christmas and New Year. Since then, our warehouse has been hit by power outages and intermittent stormy/bitterly cold weather forcing us to close. We really appreciate your patience while we look to work through our backlog of about 1,400 parcels.

To find out more about our acknowledgement process, please see bit.ly/receipt-sfa. Meantime, please know that every single donation helps us make a difference and that your support really can be life-changing.

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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2 days ago

Smalls for All
Through easyfundraising, you’ve raised £142.49 for Smalls just by shopping with your favourite brands in the last 3 months!

Easyfundraising partners with over 7,500 brands who will donate part of what you spend to a cause of your choice. It won't cost you any extra. The cost is covered by the brand. All you have to go is sign up to easyfundraising and choose Smalls for All as your nominated charity.
Maria 🧡

www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/smallsforall/
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4 days ago

Smalls for All
PLEASE SHARE!

Smalls for All is a charity set up in 2010 and created following a series of trips to orphanages where founder Maria Macnamara worked as a volunteer.

Over the last 14 years, we have distributed over 2.2 MILLION items of underwear to those in need across the UK and Africa. 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.

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.

The easiest way to donate is through our buy-to-give wish list:
www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/

Or, if you prefer text giving, you can donate any whole amount from £1 to £20 by texting 70450. For example:
🧡 To donate £3, text SMALLS 3
🧡 To donate £10, text SMALLS 10
🧡 To donate £20, text SMALLS 20
Texts will cost the chosen donation amount plus one standard network rate message.

Thank you! 🙏
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6 days ago

Smalls for All
Got some spare underwear? It's one of the simplest yet most impactful things you can donate.

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

It makes more difference than you know. 🧡

Maria 🙏
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7 days ago

Smalls for All
Thanks to you, we’ve collected 2,307,511 items of underwear and distributed 2,273,111! 🩲

Your support is invaluable and we can’t tell you how much we appreciate your generosity.

If you’d like to help keep our pile of pants grown, find out here the many ways to donate ⬇️

www.smallsforall.org/get-involved/donate/
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