News Flash! Wow. You have officially smashed my £9,000 target! I am blown away by your incredible generosity. Because of you, my first mission vehicle and its medical cargo are all set to go. But the situation in Ukraine remains critical, so I am raising the goal to £12,000 towards a second vehicle and double the volume of lifesaving supplies we can deliver

Convoy4Ukraine sends pick-up trucks with humanitarian aid to Ukraine. By raising money to buy a vehicle and stuffing it with medical supplies I get to drive it there myself in October. Listen to BBC R4 Thought for Today 17/8/26 https://tinyurl.com/Radio4Today

If you have already donated, a very big thank you. If you are still considering, please donate sooner rather than later so Convoy4Ukraine can buy more vehicles and more medical supplies.

This is a very personal trip for me as I’m following Gytha to the Wild Field. After King Harold was killed at Hastings (1066) his 3 sons and one daughter Gytha of Wessex went on the run. Gytha ended up in what is now Ukraine. A little English girl from Bosham on the south coast ‘trafficked’ to marry a Ruthenian war-lord called Volodymyr Monomakh !– I wrote a novel about her called Wild Field* in 2001

Nine hundred years after Gytha’s journey to Kyiv, I am joining a convoy of 26 vehicles with vitally needed medical supplies bought with the generous donations of friends, family and colleagues. It seems so right somehow.

(*Wild Field Дике поле is the historical name for the vast sparse Eurasian steppe. Today, the term is tied to concepts of untameable freedom, history and Ukrainian ancestral lands.)

All travel and accommodation costs and the cost of diesel for the trip will be funded personally by the drivers.