A student has started a knitting club to provide handmade hats for premature babies to coincide with National Student Volunteering week.

Volunteers at drop in sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday lunchtime are aiming to knit up to 120 hats for premature babiesk, the first 50 of which will go to the Kingston Hospital charity Born Too Soon.

The organiser Lisa Ta, 22, a chemistry exchange student said:  “The volunteers at the hospital where my sister recently gave birth did this and I thought it seemed like a really good idea as I have recently learnt how to knit.”

Recent convert to knitting, Carmen Chan, 20, a psychology student said:  “It has been fun learning a new skill and picking up a new hobby.”

Other events this volunteer week include an evening workshop with the local St John Ambulance, a fundraising battle with Imperial College London at Waterloo station and fundraising in the town centre with Kingston Rotary club for the Thanks for Life polio campaign.