Get your kit off for The Hamlet!

It's not half as rude as it sounds, and it's a serious suggestion...

We want you to go through your cupboards,attics and basements to dig out any football equipment that you no long use, or maybe your children have grown out of, for our KIT AMNESTY GAME on Saturday 19th March, when we play Burgess Hill Town at Champion Hill.

We have teamed up with someone who is doing an amazing job collecting old gear that means nothing to you, for is in great demand and much needed in Africa.

Benefiting from the donations will be the African Bible University in Kampala, Uganda and the Thembalethu Foundation based in Zimbabwe.

Hamlet fans will recollect an earlier collection of boots for the African Bible University arranged by Hamlet supporter James Virgo on behalf of a friend Sean Kinsella who is a missionary and a professor at the University that took place at the home game v. Canvey Island on 8th August 2015.

The Thembalethu Foundation works with young people by bringing them together to play football and make them feel part of the community. In doing so they educate them in live choices as well as HIV/AIDS and try to show them the opportunities that life can offer.

This forms part of a project run by football supporter Julian Chenery who collects sports kit along with school uniforms for projects such as the two prime beneficiaries from the game. Both Julian & Kevin Marley of the Thembalethu Foundation will be at the game collecting the donations.

Any donations not directly going to or the Thembalethu Foundation will go to charities such as Kit Aid.

Any donations will be gratefully accepted and will make a real difference in some-one’s life. If in doubt donate!

So please, please if you have any unwanted gear have a rummage round, and spread the word with your work colleagues, family, neighbours, friends...in fact anyone you know, who might be able to contribute...no matter how small.

Did you, maybe help run a Sunday side, a kids team or a works five-a-sides? Is that kit lying unused and musty in the basement? Or do you have some old kit of your own that you no longer wear or use?

It's wasted dumped where it is, if you're not to use them again, but it's worth it's proverbial weight in gold in Africa.

Every single piece of sports clothing or equipment will make a difference to someone, somewhere...so help Julian & Kevin have a successful collection at Dulwich Hamlet.