Football fans are being encouraged to donate kits this Christmas as presents for children whose families cannot afford them. Kitmas, run by husband-and-wife pair Paul and Lizzie Watson, from Stroud is now in its second year and is collecting shirts and cash donations again after distributing 1,000 kits to disadvantaged kids in the UK last Christmas. Mr Watson told PA: “Everyone who is lucky enough to receive one as a kid, you really remember how exciting it was to get given a football shirt. “I think it really did what we wanted it to do and made some kids’ Christmases feel a bit more special.” The scheme came out of work Mr Watson was doing with refugee charities overseas last year. After receiving a donation of 10 kits which could not be sent to refugee camps, Mr Watson decided to distribute them domestically instead via foodbanks. “We contacted initially just our local foodbank in Stroud and said ‘is this something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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