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KitAid ambassador Mary HD comes to Rochdale
The Crown Oil Arena, home of Rochdale AFC, Mary HD was chosen as KitAid’s ambassador
was the location for a promotional photo shoot because of her impressive background of
featuring KitAid ambassador Mary HD. charity work and her values closely align with
KitAid’s vision of bringing peace, love and
KitAid is a registered charity set up by Derrick happiness through sport.
Williams MBE, who visited Tanzania in 1998 and
was amazed at the reception he received just KitAid founder, Derrick Williams MBE, said: “A
because he was wearing a football shirt. lot of our work is with girls and younger women
and we felt that Mary was the perfect role
So began a mission to provide kit and equipment model for this age group to aspire to.
to the bare-footed children playing with
footballs made of tied string and plastic bags. “Mary has a wide range of talents and a big
following on social media. We are keen to bring
Twenty one years on, KitAid has sent out KitAid to a different audience, not just to
600,000+ kits to 55 different countries across football fans, and Mary has agreed to help us to
the world. share our story with her followers.”
Kit is donated by clubs from the whole football Frances Fielding, Sales & Marketing Director
pyramid, ranging from Premier League teams at Rochdale AFC, said: “We were delighted to
such as Liverpool and Man Utd through to welcome Mary to the Crown Oil Arena for her
non-league and Sunday league teams from all photo shoot to promote her new role as an
over the UK. ambassador for KitAid.“
Photo: Greg Couzens
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