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Closed 02/07/2022
Weʼve raised £1,720 to Send supplies from Basingstoke to Ukraine
- Funded on Saturday, 2nd July 2022
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John + Mike are gearing up to take as much urgent aid as they can carry out to Poland to help the ongoing humanitarian effort unfolding there - specifically to Jez Goodwin transporting supplies directly into Ukraine to those who need them.
***UPDATE*** if we can get an ambulance or two we'll stack those to the ceiling with supplies and drive them out there - from Jez in Ukraine:
"I saw a photo of a soldier trying to administer first aid to the father of a family of 5 after a morter attack, he was the only one with a pulse. We need this ambulance."
It's a ~2000 mile round-trip so here's how this fund-raiser works:
£500 gets us a car & trailer ticket for the Eurotunnel, ~£1200 gets us the tunnel plus the fuel and maybe a service-station sandwich, every further £1200 potentially gets us another round-trip as long as there's stuff that needs moving - every penny we don't spend on the trip costs will either be passed on to Jez to keep him moving over the border, used to buy supplies for the guys on the ground, or passed on to the many many charities and international organisations helping on the ground.
If there's not enough supplies to make the trip worthwhile, or someone turns up with a big truck to take it all for us, we'll donate the proceeds as above. This is all about getting the ball rolling NOW to see how everything pans out.
The good people at Viables Community Centre in Basingstoke have volunteered to act as the collection point for any donations but PLEASE only donate useful stuff that's on the urgent wish-list. We want to make the maximum impact with this trip.
More information and team updates at www.FlyingSpanners.uk
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- 2 years ago
John Utteridge
2 years agoWell, we made it! On Thursday morning we left Basingstoke with a Land Rover & trailer stacked full of supplies, arriving safe & sound at Jez's place in Telc about 24 hours later. There's no space here to list everything we took but I think we got all the super urgent stuff as well as about 90% of the donated items from Viables community centre. A huge thanks to everyone who supported us and are still donating - if we get to 3k we might even be able to go again!
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- 2 years ago
John Utteridge
2 years agoUpdate: We're *still* waiting for a passport to arrive, the current plan is to depart on the 31st with as much as we can carry.
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23
Chris Lovell
Apr 20, 2022
Good to see my old Land Rover doing something worthwhile
£50.00
Chris Coultas & John Parsons
Apr 1, 2022
£60.00
daniel Schreuders
Mar 31, 2022
Keep it going!
£50.00
Steven Rose
Mar 29, 2022
Good luck
£40.00
Nan Stocks
Mar 28, 2022
Take care and stay safe. Lots of love Nan
£100.00
V.kovalenko
Mar 24, 2022
Thank you for your help
£30.00
Helen Rutherford
Mar 16, 2022
£100.00
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