John Russell, Mike Drummond-Smith, Nicholas Walters and Anthony Knyvett thank you for connecting to their JustGiving page.

Every day we see the appalling conditions in Ukraine resulting from the unprovoked Russian invasion and the ongoing war. The country is desperate for resources such as medical supplies, generators and vehicle spares, but especially for 4WD pick-ups to aid transportation and actively help on the front line with the extraction of wounded and resupply. Even if a ceasefire were to happen, Ukrainian charities will continue to need these vehicles and the supplies they can carry.

This is where, with your support, Pickups for Peace (P4P) can assistj. The volunteers of this amazing charity raise funds to purchase second-hand 4WD pick-ups, the charity then facilitates the volunteers delivering them to Lviv in western Ukraine. As of May 2025, P4P have delivered 640 vehicles all fully-loaded with urgently needed aid supplies.

Inspired by a talk the four of us attended on P4P, which was given by someone who had himself participated twice in the charity’s programme, we decided to volunteer as we wanted to stop just feeling sorry for the people of Ukraine and do something positive to help them. Our goal when we launched our original JustGiving appeal was to raise enough money to buy two vehicles and the aid supplies to go in them. With very generous support from donors, we more than succeeded in this and, as a result, successfully funded and drove two vehicles to Lviv as part of a recent P4P convoy.

As we have a small funding surplus we have decided to put this towards a second trip this autumn but need to find the balance of the funding required to purchase the second vehicle so have revised our funding target. With your generosity we hope to achieve our aim of mounting this second trip.