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Welcome to the home of Angelbear, the UK's fastest growing family of knitters and crocheters who knit bears for children in crisis.
Angelbears are used by police forces in the UK, US and Australia, major children's hospitals, hospices, women's refuges and all major critical care services. We owe our astonishing and continued success to YOU! Read more about us, our patron Greg Page, our services and our work here.
Due to the large number of correspondence and bears received each month, we kindly request that if you would like an acknowledgement that we have received your bears that you enclose an SAE or provide an email address. This helps keeps costs down and ensures the maximum number of bears can be posted to vulnerable children each month.
Thankyou for your co-operation.
RECENT NEWS
We are delighted to announce that Angelbear have been granted £6,018 from the Big Lottery Fund to develop our work.
Angelbear need YOU! We are looking for volunteers in the Boston/Lincs area to help us. Any age, any experience, but a passion for children is a must. Email through the contact page. Thank you!
THE STORY OF ANGELBEAR
Angelbear began as a basic concept in the mind of Angelbear Founder Melanie Smith in June 2009 and launched onto the internet on 1st January 2010. What began as a passion of former nurse Melanie for providing a more holistic, rounded approach to helping children in critical situations, led Melanie on a path of extensive research and the development of a bear specifically designed to fulfil the basic needs of a child in a stressful or traumatic situation.
Melanie divided her time between raising her five children whilst engaging herself fully to the development of the ‘perfect’ bear and the progression of Angelbear into the public domain. No one, especially Melanie herself could have predicted how wholly the public would take Angelbear to it’s hearts and just how huge Angelbear would become in a very short space of time.
Through her many dealings with the media, Melanie managed to bring Angelbear from a home-run concern to an organisation that was growing so rapidly , providing such a respected service and being so high in demand that after 15 months of pushing Angelbear forward, Melanie asked for more specific help in the form of a local journalist Marie Williamson, who had become a good friend following the publication of many articles to inform the local area of the work Angelbear was doing. By this time Angelbear was receiving many hundreds of bears every week, had featured in worldwide press and had become a mammoth success that few people anticipated. For Angelbear to run practically, Melanie could no longer manage every aspect of the workload alone.Melanie & Marie now run Angelbear together and have huge plans for getting as many bears as possible out to our hundreds of recipient organisations.
Since that time in late 2010, Melanie, Marie and the Angelbear team of dedicated volunteers have worked tirelessly to send many thousands of bears to children in critical situations and with the help of a dedicated army of fantastic volunteers and magnificent knitters/crocheters across the globe Angelbear has fast become the byword for being the charitable organisation that is filling the ‘gap’ in care that Melanie recognised back in 2009. We are proud to be the recipients of a myriad of funding, including from The National Lottery and will not rest until the value of immediate comfort for children in crisis is not only recognised, but integrated into the care of children in vastly different but equally as stressful situations on a daily basis.
Angelbear cannot and will not run however without YOU so please show your support in any way you can by either knitting a bear (or two), volunteering your time or by simply spreading the simple message of Angelbear - that sometimes everyone needs a hug!
