HELPING OUR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS
Helping Our Ukrainian Friends is a community of people dedicated to helping Ukraine.
About Helping Our Ukrainian Friends
OUR STORY
Helping Our Ukrainian Friends is a community of people across England, Poland and Ukraine dedicated to helping Ukraine since the invasion by Russia
It originated in friendships forged through football when four of the team met in Donetsk in 2012 when England played Ukraine in the Euros. It now unites a team working in Sheffield, Dronfield, Peterborough, Stamford, Surrey, Gliwice, Rivne, Odesa, Kharkiv and Kyiv.
Our first delivery of aid was in March 2022, taking medical supplies to the Kyiv Heart Institute as Russian invaders threatened to encircle Kyiv. Since then the UK team have made 12 humanitarian aid deliveries, while the Polish and Ukrainian team has taken these supplies on to front line communities.
So far the project has raised £250,000 and delivered over 50 tonnes of aid, plus 37 generators and thousands of lights, batteries, camping stoves, tourniquets and over 2,000 Christmas and Easter Gift Boxes for Ukrainian children.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
We need to raise money and open up new collection points where people can drop off their donations. All donations are delivered by members of our team and recorded on video and in photos. Many of our supporters have recognised their donations as they are handed out to villages and families in southern and Eastern Ukraine.
You can donate at JustGiving here
If you’d like to help set up collection points or to be actively involved in our work please contact Richard Astle (Peterborough/East Midlands) or Tony Bovill (Sheffield and Dronfield)
SUPPORTING OUR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS
We are supporting our Ukrainian Friends, some of the most dedicated and amazing people, who are getting aid to where it is needed all across Ukraine, (including the front lines) . Also, supporting widowed families by running Summer Camps
This is supported by Our UK Friends, the companies and individuals to whom we are indebted to.
Christmas last year
DECEMBER 2023 - OUR 12TH TRIP
2 ambulances
22 computers
700 Christmas gift boxes
Generators
Camping Stoves
Stretchers and medical supplies
Sanitary and baby supplies
Tonnes of food
Tourniquets
Batteries
Warm clothes
Support Helping Our Ukrainian Friends
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Helping Our Ukrainian Friends is an unincorporated community group with no legal status and is not a charity. However, we can demonstrate that all the money we raise is accounted for and goes directly to support our objectives, including the costs of delivering donated and purchased supplies to Ukraine.
It has a written Terms of Reference, which are available on request.
Opportunities
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Join our team helping our friends in Ukraine.
Your donations, no matter how small, make a big difference. Click here for collection points, where you can drop off donations.
If you’d like to help set up collection points or to be actively involved in our work please contact Richard Astle (Peterborough/East Midlands) or Tony Bovill (Sheffield and Dronfield)
