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Our Friends At Lyngby Tennis Club
Over 2 years ago we at ’Shoes To Share’ approached Lyngby Tennis Club and asked if the club would interested in collaborating with us. As an organization that encourages clubs around the world to donate used tennis shoes to underprivileged kids across the globe, Lyngby Tennis Club saw this as a great opportunity to promote…
Ben’s Story
Ben Nteza Ssenoga is a 13-year-old Ugandan school boy and of one of the many people who have gotten in touch with us over the last couple of years to ask for our help. Ben asked if we might be able to share some of our shoes and sports equipment to a programme he set…
The Shoe That Grows
Every so often in our blog we like to discuss somebody that we come across who is doing incredible things. It might Abebe Bikila, who completed a marathon with no shoes on, or Sam Jalloh, who as we write this is in Africa on a trip to inspire future generations, taking over 200 pairs of our…
10 Countries – 1 Big Idea
Since the beginning of the ShoesToShare Journey, we have been lucky enough to meet some truly phenomenal people and today’s article is about one of those people, Sam Jalloh. Sam is a tennis coach from Southport, Liverpool, who grew up in Sierra Leone during their bloody civil war. He is about to embark on a…
The Argument For No Shoes
Every so often, you might come across a runner, or even walker, who has intentionally who has decided to complete their trip barefooted. The ironic thing is that way back in human history, this was common practice, and to have shoes, was in fact abnormal. Then along came shoes, originally just to protect the foot…
Footwear Game Changers
Disrupters, start-ups, inventors, designers. Every so often, someone comes along with a game-changing thought, idea or vision with the will and desire to make it a reality. The world of footwear is no different, with creators all trying to leave their mark on an industry that can be both very financially rewarding and pivotal to…
An Exciting Internal Update
As you will be aware by now, tennis plays a huge role in the lives of our co-founders Ellis V and Eve Short. For Eve, tennis took the form of being a Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour player, competing at the highest level the sport has to offer. For Ellis V, an elite junior career…
Motivate Africa
We recently had the pleasure of Sam Jalloh coming to join us at the Shoestoshare storage where we met Sam for an exciting exchange. Sam made a 500 mile round trip from Liverpool to London and back with a close friend Bruce who help transport 250 pairs of shoes back with Sam for his ‘Motivate…
Our Friends in Knightsbridge
Recently, we gave you a little background and history to our friends over at Kings College School Wimbledon. Well, there is another fabulous group we thought we should shout about and that is Knightsbridge School. Knightsbridge comprises of another set of incredible teachers, students and parents playing such a crucial and generous role in our…
Shoes On The Big Screen
We all love a good film. They are an opportunity to imagine, laugh, cry and escape, offering a vast variety of short term emotional fixes. But they also provide longer-term effects, always managing to root themselves deeply in our timelines, whether that be because of a special song, a release date or maybe a character…
Our Friends In Wimbledon
Hopefully by now you have become more familiar with the incredible school we work with, Kings College School in Wimbledon. They are the generosity masterminds behind so many of the shoes we sent 6,000 miles around the globe to India when we worked with the Oscar Foundation. Given how proud we are to say they…
Adidas’ Ocean Shoe
Did you know that Adidas produces over 400 million pairs of shoes every year? That’s over 800 million shoes in one year hitting our highstreets and onto the feet of eager fans. While that kind of supply is great for the consumer, it’s bad news for the planet, but thankfully, Adidas are doing something about…
The Global Role of Sport Right Now
It is no secret that sport has long been a major contributor to human evolution, contributing massively to economic, social, physical and emotional development. This has been demonstrated on a global scale for quite some time now, as sport has continued to catalyze inclusion and empowerment for those who previously struggled to find a voice.…
6,000 Miles Later….
Not too long ago, we told you about a 24 hour train journey that our shoes would be going on to reach a location special to our friends at the Oscar Foundation. Well, we are thrilled to say that the shoes have made it and they are now happily leaving the idea of no sport…
More Shoes Means More Smiles
We get very excited when we see aspiring young athletes taking part, getting better, and enjoying the sports they love most. This is no different! Our friends in Anguilla recently received some of our wonderful donations and it brings us great pleasure to share some photos with you! The Anguilla coaching team distributed the shoes,…
Something we ask you to be aware of.
During the most recent winter break, it was very hard to avoid the deeply harrowing footage of Australia’s battle with fire. People’s lives lost, millions of animals and insects killed, and a staggering amount of land destroyed within a matter of weeks. Now whether this has anything to do with human behavior or not, it…
A 24 hr train journey through India….
You may have seen some of our recent posts discussing the fantastic work taking place at King’s College School (KCS) in Wimbledon. The school is doing phenomenal things to drive donations from its students, parents and staff members. Within 3 weeks of our Donation Station arriving at the school, we were told the box had…