Sometimes the simplest things can have the biggest impact and a short deadline can bring people together to work on a single project. We saw this in action in the last week of October when four Wool for Warmth clubs and one church pulled together to make a comfort blanket for Achmed's mom. https://videopress.com/v/uLpPmQ9U?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata Stichting… Continue reading Many hands may make light work, but our team also made Achmed’s Mom smile!
“Resurrection of the Knitting Witch” representing Netherlands in Finals of the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships 2021 Collaboration of Niels Weerheim, Vaskimo Arts, and Stichting Wool for Warmth The Hague, The Netherlands – 9 July 2021 – WTF Productions announces the “The Resurrection of the Knitting Witch” video will advance to tonight's Finals of the… Continue reading Press Release for 9 July 2021: Finalists Heavy Metal Knitting
How best to increase our Team but to increase our Human Resources Team. Stichting Wool for Warmth is seeking to recruit a professional-volunteer based Human Resources Team to find us lots of volunteers - and we do mean lots. Are you trained in Human Resources? Do you have time to help a fast-growing, dynamic and… Continue reading Human Resources Team, Dutch and English
Nederlands Last year, we did a calculation on Maex.nl of the number of volunteer hours Stichting Wool for Warmth completed in an average month. The number will blow your socks off. 10,000 hours of volunteer work per month. Let me write it bigger. 10,000 hours of volunteer work per month. And we were trying to… Continue reading Honestly, we just need more volunteers. Everyone welcome, we will find the best place for you!
It is exactly one year since the donation of our wool shop – The Treasure Trove – housed at Anna & Co in the SOZA building in The Hague. A bequeath from the son and husband of Door, the owner of the Breikorf in Voorburg. It was a donation that changed everything for Wool for… Continue reading He just gave us his mom’s Wool Shop – De Breikorf! That Changed Everything.
Most of our volunteers and knitters are in the high-risk group for coronavirus so this pandemic is something we take very seriously. Instead of “circumstances-beyond-our-control” however, we are taking the “circumstances-within-our-control” approach. For all our volunteers, followers, and fans, we are making our coronavirus policy public. And in the spirit of Wool for Warmth, we… Continue reading Seeing the Positive Side of the Coronavirus while Following the Rules
