Knit-In For Peace – 5th December

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Knit for Peace is holding a ‘Knit-In’ at the Barbican Centre, London, as part of the BBC Arts Get Creative Campaign The event will be free to all and take place on 5th December from 10.30am to 5.30pm on the Mezzanine Level of the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DL Everyone is welcome: if you have never knitted before come along and learn the basics with our team of…

Help for Refugees – a simple request

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We’ve just had an urgent request for warm clothes and blankets to go to Kurdistan, where there are 1.8 million refugees. Most have fled civil wars and ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Last winter 6,000 refugees died from the cold. We have now found a way of getting a convoy through, which would deliver the stuff safely. However it will cost about £4,250 to get around 91,000 items there, in a…