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Click here to see some children with the teddies.
Click here for a printable teddies pattern.
Teddies take the trauma out of treatment.
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Could you spend an hour or two knitting a little Teddy?
Doctors who treat children in third world countries are asking for them, as they have found that children who have their own
Teddy to cuddle in their cots get better quicker than those who don't have one. Each child keeps their own Teddy and can take
it home, so the Doctors need a continual supply. They are very simple and quick to make.
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Teddies Make the News!
Jacqueline Wakefield*, daughter of the late
Albert Sutcliffe who was the President of
Bradford Theosophical Society, knitted 32 teddies over the
2007 Christmas Period and was bringing them to our home. We thought that it would
be a good opportunity to get some publicity. So we contacted the local newspaper, the
Bradford Telegraph & Argus (T&A).
They sent a photographer who took photos of the three of us surrounded by the Teddies. The
photo with a caption describing Teddies for Tragedies and the
TOS was published in the T&A.
The item elicited considerable interest and we were contacted by several T&A
readers asking for knitting patterns and offering to knit the Teddies.
Wooly Friends: From top left, Jacqueline Wakefield, Cynthia Trasi
and Atma Trasi with the bears they have been knitting to send to Third World
Countries.
(Courtesy Bradford Telegraph & Argus. 19 Feb. 2008)
We have collected 3,396 Teddies to date!
Mrs Bessy Lay has knitted 524
Teddies!
Mrs Ann Hirst has knitted 376
Teddies!
Margaret Limeburn of Leeds has knitted
362 Teddies!
The Ladies of Denholme Rural Crafters have knitted
335 teddies!
TOS members in Italy came to know of this scheme via the
internet and adopted it. They have sent us 197 teddies by post!
Thank you very much. We appreciate your efforts greatly.
(22 June 2009)
* Jacqueline has now completed 50
Teddies! (10 Sept. '08)
The Ladies of Shipley Hall Royd Fellowship have knitted
15 tedies most of which were knitted by an incredible lady of
96 who loves to think that her Teddies have given comfort to some
children somewhere in the world!
We would like to thank all the wonderful readers of Bradford T&A
who have knitted and continue to knit Teddies for Teddies for Tragedies.
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Teddies for Tragedies: Many members of
TOS-UK and the TSand their families knit Teddies on
a regular basis. At the initiative of TOS-UK Chair,
Maureen Atkinson the sixth form girls at
Westholme School, Blackburn have been encouraged to knit Teddies.
Mrs Pamela Martin head of her year, as well as her other
duties, teaches knitting and encourages the school to work together for the benefit of others.
Mrs Grundy who is in her eighties, the mother of one of
the staff has knitted over 200 Teddies, each one different.
Maureen goes to the school every year to speak to the
girls about the TOS and receive the Teddies.
The girls are thanked and the school receives a certificate.
TOS-UK member, Harvey Tordoff
has persuaded his family to knit Teddies. They have knitted hundreds!
To date, we have sent over 10,000 Teddies abroad.
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What valiant effort, we offer our grateful thanks to all our knitters
everywhere.
Theosophical Order of Service,
Secretary and Co-ordinator: Cynthia Trasi, 66 Kirkgate, Shipley,
West Yorks BD18 3EL
Tel: 01274 598455. Email:
info@tos-uk.org.uk
I would be most grateful to receive notifications of any errors or mistakes and also for any
suggestions for improvement of this web site. I thank you in anticipation.
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