It’s the middle of Woolley Hat Week. Yes, a full week of celebrating those warm wonderful fuzzy things. Traditionally, the purpose of the week is to get people wearing their Wolley Hats to work to raise funds for the Sailor’s Society. There’s also a woolley hat day in November to raise funds for St. Mungo’s, a homelessness charity.
Aside from participating to raise money for a good cause, we thought we’d give you a few other great reasons to wear a woolley hat – and not just for this week!
- Human Heat. A serious amount of human heat can be lost if your head is without a hat. Between 10-50% in fact. Just think how much lower your energy bills could be at home if you just popped on a hat and how much more warmer you’d be.
- Woolley hats are a timeless trend. People have been wearing hats since .. well 27,000 years ago. The oldest hat in the world is over 27,000 years old so you can be sure that they won’t be going out of fashion anytime soon. If you’re bored of the woolley hat you’ve got thenvery many patterns available for free online to help get you started as well as online tutorials.
So, get involved in woolley hat week, to show your support to the Sailor’s Society and also to embrace all that hats have to offer.
Ps- Hats aren’t the only way to lock in Human Heat. Penguin like huddles and cuddling can also do the trick.
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
