Words by Smiley Team
A GROUP of volunteer knitters say ensuring the continued success of a social enterprise committed to keeping people warm is the best possible tribute to the project’s late founder.
Dave Watson launched The Warm Age Wood Company, in Barnard Castle, five years ago. Sadly, he died in late 2017 of pancreatic cancer.
The enterprise provides wood briquettes for those in fuel poverty.
It does this through the general sale of briquettes – with one bag provided free to those in need for every ten sold – and money raised through the sale of woollen items knitted by volunteers.
Figures for 2017/18 show the company sold 1,305 bags of briquettes and since last September another 774.
This means more than 200 free bags of briquettes have been provided to those in fuel poverty during that period.
Original article by Stuart Laundy - Source Teesdale Mercury
