Little Green Sock Project

📚✨ Happy World Book Day! ✨📚 Stories have the power to inspire, educate, and bring us together—and today, we’re celebrating not just books, but the incredible community spirit that helps us support local families. A huge shoutout to St Antony’s RC School, who are turning pages for a purpose with their Readathon, raising vital funds for Little Green Sock Project! 💚📖 Every chapter read is helping provide essential clothing, prams, and equipment to families in need. If you'd like to help them with their fundraising their L i n k i s i n c o m m e n t s This World Book Day, let’s celebrate the magic of reading and the power of community. Thank you to everyone supporting us—you are making a real difference! 🌟 #WorldBookDay #ReadathonForGood #CommunityFundraising #LittleGreenSock #SharingStories #SupportingFamilies #UNESCO 4o

What a phone call to receive yesterday!! Couldn’t wait to tell our volunteers today that we have won £5000 in the COOP #winnersshareitall prize draw, thanks to a COOP Member who nominated us as their cause! We’re now at 76% of our target and will help us stay in this fight to Save Our Baby Bank! 💪 Wow, we’re made up, thank you!!!! We’re getting so close to being able to Save Our Baby Bank now, if you’re organisation is interested in a meaningful partnership supporting the most vulnerable families in Trafford and beyond, we can offer partnership full of volunteering opportunities for your teams and make sure that disadvantaged children don’t go without. You might be the ones who get us over the line! That will be one hell of a Dino Dance!!!🦖 🕺 #ThankYou #SaveOurBabyBank #Lucky #smallcharitybigdifference #Trafford #Manchester #coop Co-op Foundation Shirine Khoury-Haq Serena Smallman Ged Carter

🚨 Calling All Corporate Teams! Our 2025 Team Volunteer Diary is Now Open! 🚨 Looking for a team-building day with real impact? Join us at Little Green Sock Project and get hands-on supporting families in crisis. From sorting essential donations to preparing bundles of clothing, toiletries, and equipment—your team will make a direct difference in the lives of children impacted by poverty. 👶 Why get involved? ✅ A meaningful way to give back while bonding as a team ✅ Support our Save Our Baby Bank campaign at a critical time ✅ See first-hand how your efforts help struggling families ✅ We host teams of up to 10 people – and we’d love to welcome yours! 📅 Our diary is now open for bookings—DM us to find out more and secure your corporate volunteering day! #SaveOurBabyBank #CorporateVolunteering #TeamBuilding #EmployeeEngagement #CSR #MakeADifference #VolunteeringMatters

HUGE Thank you to the Savannah Wisdom Foundation for their generous donation of £5000 towards the Save Our Baby Bank Campaign. Thank you for your dedication in supporting causes based around building stronger communities, reducing social inequality and creating a fairer society. Material deprivation and child poverty have life long consequences. From a new mum feeling isolated because she can't safely get out with her young children due to lack of pram, to a child without a safe place to sleep, affecting sleep quality and safety. Providing these basics through reuse ensures that families don't go without, and harnesses the power of community through preloved donations and volunteering, showing that everyone has a role to play in reducing child poverty. We're thrilled that Savannah Wisdom Foundation share our values #Saveourbabybank #Trafford #Littlegreensock #Funding #Support #communityaction

🎶 When life gives you a dinosaur costume… you dance! 🦖💃 We never know what’s going to turn up at Little Green Sock Project, and this inflatable dino has to be one of the best yet! 😂 While we love the random surprises, what we really need are: 👕 Good quality clothing for ages 3-16 🍼 Prams from newborn 🛏️ Cots & highchairs If you have any of these items in great condition and would like to donate, we’d love to hear from you! 💚 Also this is what happens when you let the youngsters take over your socials!! 🫶 #DinoDancingForDonations #OnlyAtLittleGreenSock #RandomActsOfDino #DonateWithLove #SupportingFamilies #PassItOn #TraffordCommunity

🏃♂️ Our Running Team is Off and Running! 🏃♀️ Our amazing Little Green Sock Project Running Team has officially kicked off their training for the AJ Bell Great Manchester Run – and they’re already smashing it, both on the pavement and in their fundraising! 🎉 So far, they’ve raised an incredible £1,600 to help us continue providing essential items to children affected by poverty – from warm clothing and footwear to stair gates and cots for safer sleeping. 💚 A HUGE thank you to every single runner for your dedication and to everyone who has donated so far. We’re cheering you on every step of the way! 👏 Fancy joining them? We still have FREE charity places available! Sign up, take on the challenge, and help us get closer to our goal to Save Our Baby Bank! 📩 DM us to claim your place! #SaveOurBabyBank #GreatManchesterRun #TeamLGS #RunForACause #CharityRun #EveryChildMatters #Fundraising #Manchester

✨ Incredible News! ✨ We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Little Green Sock Project has been awarded £25,000 from the Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of Peoples Postcode Lottery! This incredible support will help us continue our vital work throughout 2025, ensuring children impacted by poverty have access to the essentials they need – from warm clothing and footwear to stair gates, cots, and toiletries. The demand for our service is soaring – with a 79% increase in referrals compared to the same period last year. More families than ever are turning to us in crisis, and this funding brings us one step closer to reaching our target to Save Our Baby Bank! ❤️ A huge THANK YOU to Postcode Neighbourhood Trust and everyone who plays People's Postcode Lottery – your support makes a life-changing difference! #SaveOurBabyBank #PostcodeNeighbourhoodTrust #PeoplesPostcodeLottery #CommunitySupport #ChildPoverty #EveryChildMatters #MakingADifference #LittleGreenSockProject

Well, how to make a softie like me cry… The South Trafford Health Visiting team sent us a gorgeous card signed by the team with examples of how we have helped the families they support. It was an absolute privilege to share this with the volunteers today, and the chocolates they sent with it! ‘Thank you for saving the day when I had twins who had nowhere to sleep!’ ‘Thank you for putting children first’ ‘Thank you for providing clothes and toys for a little boy who had no toys to play with’ And so many more! Ok, so I know we have a big impact, we supported 1000 children last year, some of them multiple times. Our referrals are up 79% compared to this time last year. They are just numbers though It’s the human impact that gets me every time. It’s feedback like this that gives me that little reminder of why I keep fighting to save our baby bank. It’s the mum who was sleeping on her landing because she didn’t want her little boy to fall down the stairs as they didn’t have a stairgate - until we stepped in It’s the mum who was struggling with single parenthood in a low income job, with a high private rent and struggling to put food on the table, but also needed school shoes. We made sure she didn’t have to make a choice between school shoes and food. It’s the mum who struggled to leave the house for 2 months after the birth of her baby, seriously affecting her mental health, because she didn’t have a pram that she could use for the baby and her 18 month old. We provided a double pram so she could get out and about with her family, and breathe. We’ve only got a few more weeks to Save Our Baby Bank, and your support could make that difference! #Saveourbabybank #Trafford #Littlegreensock #trafford #traffordcharity #donate

Oh we’re loving this! We’ve got a team of creative media work experience students from The Manchester College who are coming to help us with our social media content! Today they’ve helped us with an appeal for donations this half term to restock after the busiest couple of months! Buckle up for some more content over the coming months as these girls are on fire!🔥🔥🔥 Oh and if you are having a sort out over half term and can help with any of the donations needed, we’re over in Stretford Mall Tues- Thurs 10:30am-2:30pm, or this Saturday 15th Feb 12pm-2pm. #babybank #littlegreensock #saveourbabybank #donate #donations #preloved #trafford #themanchestercollege Ged Carter Lorna Sales CertIOSH CIWFM AIEMA Rebecca Neves CGMA Lauren Chalmers Michele Simister Alex McCann Sophie Harris Faye Chilekwa Pippa Holland

Did you know, Cllr Dolores O’Sullivan who was the Mayor of Trafford from 2023-2024 hosted a year of fundraising, and chose us as one of her charities as well as our friends over at TRAFFORD DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES and supporting the brilliant work of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières - USA Cllr O’Sullivan hosted fashion shows, wine tasting, tea parties and even WALKED ON FIRE! 🔥 We are delighted to have received £4877.04 this week, which we are going to be putting towards our Save Our Baby Bank Campaign! Tremendous effort Cllr O’Sullivan, thank you so so much for your support 🫶 We’ve now raised 55% of what we need to Save Our Baby Bank and not much time left. If your organisation can help with a pledge of financial support for the campaign in the new financial year, we’d love to hear from you. Trafford Council #Saveourbabybank #Trafford #mayoroftrafford #m32 #m41 #M33 #M16 #M15 #m31 #WA14 #babybank #littlegreensock Ged Carter Lorna Sales CertIOSH CIWFM AIEMA Emma Budzynski Rebecca Neves CGMA