Community Interest Company Number: 08422226
“A Quilt is a Hug you can keep”
Can you help us provide comfort and security for babies, children and teenagers who are sick, disabled, distressed or disadvantaged?
How it all began:
On Christmas Eve 1995, in the USA, an article appeared in Parade Magazine entitled Joy to the World’ by Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, Eddie Adams. Part of the article featured a petite, downy haired child. She had been going through intensive chemotherapy and it stated that her security blanket had helped her get through the treatments. Karen Loucks, who had just learnt to crochet, decided to provide home-made security blankets to Denver’s Rocky Mountain Children’s Cancer Centre.
Project Linus is born!
Project Linus was named after the security blanket toting character from the Peanuts comic strip. The late Charles Schultz, its creator, was pleased to have Linus inspire blanket makers to help sick and traumatised children. Project Linus UK was started in March 2000. It was registered as a UK Community Interest Company in February 2013.
How you can help?
- Make a quilt or knitted blanket and donate it to Project Linus
UK. - Donate supplies such as cotton fabric, man-made yarns, office supplies, or postage stamps, which will help to keep us running smoothly.
- Offer to help your local Area Co-ordinator.
Donated fabric and wool can be passed on to volunteers who perhaps have no materials of their own that they can use.
Project Linus UK is 100% volunteer based and non-profit making so we rely on such donations.
What kind of Quilts or Blankets?
Suggested sizes are:
- Knitted blankets: approx 24″ square or larger.
- Baby quilts: approx 24″ – 30* inches square or 24″ x 30″.
- Children’s quilts: approx 36″-42″
square or 36″ x 42″ - Teenagers quilts: approx 42″ square or 42″ x 48″
- However, all sizes can be used.
Please do not add embellishments such as ribbons and buttons which could come off and be swallowed.
All quilts and blankets must be machine washable.
What happens next?
Once we receive your quilt / blanket, it is checked and then prepared for delivery. A Project Linus label is sewn onto every quilt and blanket.
Made with Tender Loving Care for Project Linus UK
The quilt or blanket is then given to a baby, child or teenager ‘in need of a big hug’ for them to keep.
Deliveries are made according to how many we have received and where they are needed. Occasionally we have requests for quilts for individual children who may be seriously ill and being cared for at home.
Originally targeting paediatric cancer patients, Project Linus UK has broadened its focus towards seriously ill, abused, bereaved or traumatised children, from premature birth to 19 years old.
Where to find us:
Your Area Coordinator is:
Name: Lyn Hillier
Tel: 01829741062
Email: lynphillier2@gmail.com
For further information or if you might be interested in becoming a volunteer Co-ordinator, visit our website