by Leigh | Mar 11, 2020 | General
Making the trip to deliver your donations is always a pleasure and taking a big van full to the rafters with sleeping bags makes everyone smile. Photo from inside the van while emerging onto the Calais Europort Docks. Our last run to Calais was tinged with...
by Leigh | Apr 17, 2016 | General
Imagine only having one pair of knickers and living in a field for the foreseeable future. Imagine you can only access a shower in that field once a month. No one in this day and age should have to do this. In the Idomeni refugee camp in Northern Greece this is...
by Leigh | Dec 3, 2015 | General
Who knew cling film is the essential element to shipping boxes of aid, We have dragged our half height pallets outside into the car park built them to full capacity and set to wrap them in cling film We have 6.5 pallets worth of boxes full with some space left and a...
by Leigh | Dec 2, 2015 | General
The most important thing we learned this week is that when you fill a pallet to its height capacity it won’t fit through the door of our new warehouse, oops. In between waving off the van to Calais we have been busily preparing your donations to ship them out to...
by Leigh | Dec 1, 2015 | General
When we set off on our family holiday to Lesvos this summer I never thought it would lead us to becoming sleeping bag shippers. With your help, donating money to pay for survival bags, donating much needed sleeping bags and helping us to sort out the donations, my...