Ukraine – Hungerford Support Appeal

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfu.../hungerford-ukraine-aid

We need your help and support!

A small team from Hungerford and Lambourn is finalizing a trip out to Poland to take much-needed medical and personal supplies. We will be handing this kit over to Ukrainian volunteers in Kraków where it will be taken onto the Ukrainian capital Kiev, including an essential heart monitor. The remaining general medical and first aide supplies as well as feminine hygiene products, warm clothing, batteries, blankets, teddys for children and more – will all go to Ukraine.

Myself, (ex-Army) and Blake Morgan (ex-RAF) are coordinating this from Hungerford and we have been working very closely with the Reading Ukrainian Community Centre – https://rucc.uk – and Eliska Vyskoc from Lambourn.

You can help.

We need funds! Now that we have a simple, but good plan, we need to finance the following as well as the supplies we are taking:

Urgent Medical & Personal Supplies - £7,500+

Van hire – long wheelbase – for a week to 10 days - £500

Channel Crossing - £250

Diesel for the van - £550

Road Tolls – £200

Food & Miscellaneous - £200

Please contribute in any way you can and we need funds quickly. The medical equipment is arriving early next week and we are looking at going as soon as possible thereafter.

Richard Curtis has kindly volunteered to get the ball rolling by letting us use his own charity account and £200! Thank you so much Richard. And Andrew Fisher, also from Hungerford, will be making sure all monies are accounted for. We will be logging all payments and publishing a full set of accounts, along with receipts. Andrew is a Civil Service accountant, so he should be able to keep us on the straight and narrow. Thanks Andrew!

Any money left over will go to the UNHCR Ukraine as well as registered Ukrainian and Polish charities. Again at the end of the trip, we will be publishing all the contributions and accounting details.

To donate, contact me, Simon Howe. 07809 66 88 32. I will let you know the Account Number and Sort Code and you can directly make a direct bank transfer. Alternatively, you are welcome to drop in and see me at home - DM for drop off details.

Blake, myself, Eliska and the team would like to thank you in advance for any help you can give. We want to make this appeal and aid trip a very local effort, a simple and small helping hand from the people of Hungerford and Lambourn to the people of Ukraine.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfu.../hungerford-ukraine-aid

Thank you.

Simon, Blake, Eliska, Richard and Andrew