Quakers are backing the biggest collection of unwanted kit for disadvantaged youngsters in the history of the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League!

Officials at the Evo-Stik NPL’s official charity partner are hoping fans visiting Heritage Park over the next two matches against Skelmersdale and Stamford will bring along any spare or unwanted kit.

It doesn’t need to be football kit, it can be kit from any sport – shirts, shorts, socks, boots, tracksuits etc. So now is the time to climb into the attic or go into the garage or clear out the kids’ wardrobes.

Pack the kit into carrier bags, and bring them along before the Skemersdale game on Tuesday or the Stamford game on Saturday, and put them next to the tunnel in the main stand.

As well as being recycled and distributed locally, the donations will also be sold in Sports Traider’s retail outlets with the money generated being re-invested into grassroots sport for disadvantaged children and young people.

Sports Traider, unveiled as the Evo-Stik NPL’s new charity last summer, have been using the #Kit Amnesty to mobilise fans on social media since before Christmas when students at the NPLFA, the league’s ground-breaking academy, kicked off this season’s efforts for the good cause by collecting among their friends and families.

Founded in 2009 in Bedford by Lance Haggith, the 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero winner, Sports Traider is dedicated to helping UK youngsters discover and fulfil their sporting potential, whatever their background, ability or disability.

Apart from their growing number of permanent collection points and recycling banks in strategic locations and links with schools and sports centres around the country, the charity also works with local sports brands and retail outlets who are invited to donate surplus, end-of-line or seconds stock directly.

For more information, visit the home page league’s official website and click on the Sports Traider button or visit the charity’s site direct at www.sportstraider.org.uk.