Ferenc Kaloczi was born in a small town Barcs, Hungary on Jan 19th 1935. He was brought up by his grandparents as his mother Maria was unable to look after him. Around the age of 8 he was introduced to his mother for the first time whilst she was terminally ill & she passed away 3 months later. Ferenc spoke about the day the Russians came, when he & his grandparents collected their worldly belongings into a sheet & followed his blind grandfather to a safer destination. After his grandfather died he would help his grandmother to collect wood from the mountains- a few short years later his grandmother also died. Devastated, he went to live with his mothers sister Anna in Pecs. Life was tough & there was little money for food & they lived in one room.

The Hungarian uprising began in 1956. Ferenc & his friends fled in fear of their lives.

He arrived in England & started a new life here, where he met his wonderful wife Anne & had 4 children, Elizabeth, Maria, Tom & David. 

It was his lifelong wish to help other orphaned & disadvantaged children & we’d like to honour his memory by collecting for Barnardo’s.