Over 1 million children have cuddled a colourful, comforting Trauma Teddy since we first started hand-knitting them back in 1990.

Trauma Teddies provide care in so many ways:

• comfort to children fleeing bushfires, floods and other emergencies
• a warm welcome to refugee children
• company in a speeding ambulance
• friendly security in hospital
• a happy face in a lonely time.

At last count, more than 600 volunteer knitters and knitting groups hand knit Teddies in Australia. They lovingly craft around 50,000 Trauma Teddies a year. That’s a huge number of children who each year receive the care of a teddy bear.

It takes about 5 hours to knit and finish each Teddy. By our calculations, that's a whopping 250,000 volunteer knitting hours each year – or a mind-blowing 7.5 million volunteer hours over the past 30 years.

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Every Trauma Teddy is lovingly put together. They must also pass a quality control test to guarantee comfort and safety.

For more information or to locate your local Trauma Teddy coordinator contact us.