How to donate
funds
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YorkshireAid
(subsidiary of Refugees START)
How to donate
physical goods
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Donate Funds to Yorkshire Aid
Bring or Send Physical Goods to:
Slung Low
The Holbeck,
Jenkinson Lawn,
Holbeck,
Leeds.
LS11 9QX
What I can donate:
- Shelter & Warmth
- Clothing
- Food
- Toiletries
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YorkshireAid
(subsidiary of Refugees START)
How to donate
funds
down arrow
Donate Funds to Yorkshire Aid
How to donate
physical goods
down arrow
Bring or Send Physical Goods to:
Slung Low
The Holbeck,
Jenkinson Lawn,
Holbeck,
Leeds.
LS11 9QX
What I can donate:
- Shelter & Warmth
- Clothing
- Food
- Toiletries
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Our most needed
donations:
Shelter & Warmth
Tents, Sleeping Bags, Blankets, Tarpaulin, Camping Gear, Tent Pegs, Bivi Bags.
Clothing
Waterproof Coats, Small Mens Clothing, New Socks, New Underwear, Thermals.
Food
Chickpeas, Dried Pulses, Rice, Tinned Fish & Meat, Protein or High Calorie Bars.
Toiletries
Shower Gel, Shampoo, Deodrant, Soap, Toothpaste, New Toothbrushes.
GET MOTIVATED,
run a campaign for us.
You can organise one of the campaigns below, in your workplace, your church, your social group, your community hub. You’d be a collection point for us.
Christmas Advent Box
Reverse Advent: instead of getting a chocolate per day, start with an empty box and add a useful food item each day upto Christmas. You can do this individually and bring the box to us or organise a group effort and be a collection point.
Hygiene Pack
Ask your people to make up Mens Toiletry Packs like the picture above. We have lots of womens toiletries donated, we are always short of mens.
Snug Packs
Ask your people to make up Snug Packs like the picture above. We have a lot of womens things donated, we are always very short of mens wear, particularly for small men.
Knicker Campaign
Organise a collection: bring your knickers to work day, the vicar wants your knickers, these are real campaigns that have worked in the past.
- New Underwear Only
- Small Mens Sizes
- Full Coverage Knickers
Who we are
Leigh Bell
Trustee
Wendy Myers
Trustee
Mel Steel
Trustee
Trace Myers
Member
Cathie Heart
Member
How We Started
One of our Trustees and a Volunteer met at Mytilene Airport in Lesvos, Greece and knew a mutual friend (another of our volunteers). They got talking and during a swim to cool off where talking about all the life jackets littering the coast and the state of crisis with the Syrian Refugees. Instead of just talking about it .. they made a plan of action for support. Our Trustees decided to make all the monetary donations coming in via friends into a legitimate charity.
One week later during a fashion show that had a segment about the refugee crisis and asking for donations of clothes, shampoos and other items from holiday, we launched the charity and named it Refugees START.
Over time and merging another charity into our own we have re-branded and became Yorkshire Aid. In our official charity papers we are called Refugees START and Yorkshire Aid is a subsidiary of this. They are both one and the same, but we now trade as Yorkshire Aid (our charity number: 1166273).
Saving lives & providing comfort since 2015
Years Running
Calais Runs
Sleeping Bags
Get in Touch.
Get Involved.
Yorkshire Aid at Slung Low
The Holbeck, Jenkinson Lawn, Holbeck, Leeds. LS11 9QX