More Jumpers Please! - Skeinz Penguin Rescue Fund

Super cute!

 One of the interesting things about the internet is how stories can reignite.  For the Skeinz Penguin Rescue Fund that is a wonderful thing - as all you amazing people out there continue to be captivated with our work to help fund raise for the NZ Little Blue Penguin.

Our Original Mascots - Flip & Peggy

All this was sparked in 2011 after the grounding of the Rena in Tauranga.  Thousands of people world wide joined together to hand knit & crochet jumpers for the penguins effected in the spill. To ensure all this hard work was realised to it's full potential - we placed the jumpers onto penguin mascots & the profits from their sale was used to set up the Skeinz Penguin Rescue fund.

Just some of the money distributed since the fund was established

Since 2011, we have donated thousands of dollars towards the clean up after the Rena spill, as well as a Little Blue Penguin burrowing programme, helping to re-establish the LBP population around Cape Kidnappers, here in Hawkes Bay.

Little Blues in their new burrowing boxes funded by Skeinz

We have now almost exhausted the surplus of jumpers we originally received.  In order to keep the fund going, we require fresh jumpers for our mascots.  So if you would like to donate to the cause by the way of knitting a penguin jumper, we'd love to accept your donation.  The pattern can be found here.  What we ask is that you knit the jumper in preferably wool, or another natural fibre and the brighter the better.  Most of these mascots are bought for children - so bright colours or stripes, blocks, or random print colours are the most popular.  If you want to support the fund by purchasing a mascot - you can do that from our Skeinz website.

These are sorts of  colours we have the greatest demand for

Please post your jumpers to:
Skeinz,
PO Box 3123,
Onekawa, Napier 4142
New Zealand