Covid Guidance UK Operations 19 December 2021
We are currently seeing increasing numbers of Covid cases around the UK with the new Omicron strain. Where possible and safe to do so, we prefer to continue our operations as our beneficiaries often depend on our services and ceasing operations can cause anxiety and be destabilizing. It is essential we make comprehensive risk assessments and take every precaution possible to ensure a safe environment for both our volunteers and our beneficiaries. If you are in doubt, please consult your regional lead. Precautions Your regional lead can provide a template for Covid risk assessments and help you to complete these …
Covid-19 Restrictions and Guidance on Volunteering
Faced with hundreds of people in desperate situations across Northern France and the UK, our need for volunteers only continues to grow. Thankfully it is becoming much easier for volunteers to travel and carry out essential activities with refugees. Although restrictions may be easing, please stay up-to-date on Covid-19 guidance wherever you are in order to help those around you safely. Volunteering in France: Thankfully for those who are fully vaccinated, travelling to France has become much easier. Due to ongoing risks and the vulnerable communities we support, we do ask that volunteers provide a negative test result taken within …
Manchester stepping up donations to help Afghan refugees
Thank you to Manchester City Council for all your support. To donate clothes, shoes, phones or other essentials please go to our drop off map and click on the pin nearest to you for contact details: care4calais.org/thedropoffmap To buy the basic essentials such as a clean change of clothes or decent shoes donate here: bit.ly/afghanwelcome To volunteer please email [email protected] Thank you #AfghanRefugeesWelcome …
Help Afghan refugees arriving in Manchester
We have just been informed that Afghan refugees will soon be housed in two hotels in Manchester. Our Manchester volunteers are gearing up to meet them but they need your support. If you are near Manchester and can donate clothes, shoes, phones or other essentials please go to our drop off map and click on the Manchester pin for contact details: care4calais.org/thedropoffmap Or we have set up a fundraiser to buy the basic essentials such as a clean change of clothes that they will need: bit.ly/afghanwelcome To volunteer please email [email protected] Thank you …
Help the Afghan people in their darkest hour
We are now watching scenes beamed not from another country, but from Hell. Babies thrown over razor wire in a desperate attempt to get them to safety. Bodies tumbling from planes in the sky. And thousands upon thousands of people gripped with primal, panicking fear as they frantically run from one place to another seeking escape. I would say that it’s like watching people about to be murdered, but that’s wrong. The awful, unacceptable fact is that we literally are watching people about to be murdered. Without our help, many of those people – mums and dads, sisters and brothers, …
Do you want to help Afghan refugees?
To donate clothes, shoes, phones or other essentials please go to our drop off map and click on the pin nearest to you for contact details: care4calais.org/thedropoffmap To buy the basic essentials such as a clean change of clothes or decent shoes donate here: bit.ly/afghanwelcome To volunteer please email [email protected] Thank you #AfghanRefugeesWelcome …
Statement on Charity Commission Inquiry
Care4Calais will work positively and transparently with the Charity Commission to ensure best-practice governance and compliance. We remain committed to our work supporting refugees and asylum seekers, and to our legal and ethical duties as a charitable organisation. Over the last 12 months Care4Calais has grown considerably to meet the unprecedented need of its beneficiaries and the challenges of the Covid pandemic. Thousands of volunteers have stepped up and given countless hours to meet this need and the trustees and management have worked tirelessly to support them. These extraordinary circumstances have put pressure on our systems and our staff and …
Care4Calais Mini Olympic Games
“What you doing?” “What are those for?” A crowd of curious faces gathered around us after our distribution the other day, asking us questions and staring at what we were doing. They could see we were organising something strange. Tin cans, sacks, hula hoops and mini basketballs all featured. Would these weird activities involve the refugees too, they wanted to know? In fact we were holding a mini Olympic games in Calais, in honour of the refugee team competing in Tokyo this year. In the spirit of Care4Calais we had to improvise, and it worked brilliantly. I was in charge …
Updated Covid Guidance 16th July 2021
We are seeing high numbers of new Covid cases around the UK. Please follow all precautions possible when undertaking your volunteering. Precautions Your regional lead can provide templates for Covid risk assessments and help you to complete these for your specific activities. Distribute outside wherever possible Please ensure that at all times face coverings are worn by everyone involved in all activities. Please provide sufficient hand sanitiser for use before, after and during activities. Please ensure all surfaces and equipment are wiped down before and after all activities. Please ensure all donations are quarantined for three day before distribution. Please …
Why the Government’s New Immigration Bill is Wrong
Priti Patel’s intentions are now quite clear. The founding principle of her Nationality and Borders Bill, which had its first reading in the Commons today, is the removal of almost all the rights of refugees who come to the UK seeking safety. In fact the bill could make it a criminal offence to enter the UK without an official permit. Judges will be able to sentence refugees who do so for up to four years. This is quite simply an attempt to deny the truth. Those of us who work with refugees know the vast majority have no choice but …
