Sal’s Shoes and MagicVan: Our journey
January 24, 2017
Sal's Shoes is a not-for-profit organisation set up to help find new feet for pre-loved children's shoes. Shoes are relatively difficult to recycle because of all the different components they are made up of, so Sal's Shoes will find your preloved children’s shoes new feet as so many children grow out of their shoes before they have worn through them.
In their first year, Sal’s Shoes collected 4,805 pairs of shoes and distributed them in 8 countries, including the UK. In 2015, their third year, 81,598 pairs of shoes were collected and distributed to 26 countries.
Now in their tenth year, Sal's shoes has now donated over five million pairs of shoes to over sixty countries, including increasingly to the UK too.
Something we also love about Sal's Shoes is that you will know where old shoes have found their new home. The charity itself was started by CJ as she was unable to find a charity that could tell her where exactly her son, Sal’s, outgrown shoes would find their new feet if they donated to them.
We have helped Sal’s Shoes out with their mission on two occasions. In September 2016, we were asked if we could complete a job which included moving 200 pairs of shoes from Newcastle to London to then be distributed. When we looked up who Sal’s Shoes were, we decided we couldn’t charge them for this amazing charitable act and made sure the MagicVan swung into action.
Happy with how the previous project went, Sal’s Shoes got back in touch to help with a project they were completing with pre-school football class company Little Kickers.
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