Valerie and Marc, who are regulars at CamCRAG's poncho sewing sessions, are running the Cambridge Half Marathon on Sunday 3 March to raise money for CamCRAG.
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Never been on a CamCRAG convoy? Wondering what it's like to volunteer in Calais? We are very grateful to Sol Escobar for making two short videos of our January convoy!
Thanks to the many volunteers who have been busy with their sewing machines over the past few weeks, 400 ponchos were delivered to Help Refugees' warehouse in Calais this week.
Thank you to the congregation of St Mark's Church in Newnham who raised £590 for CamCRAG in January, after making us their first Charity of the Month for 2019.
The Big Cambridge Calais sleepout has raised over £10,000 thanks to your generosity and support. Last Saturday over 20 volunteers slept in and outside St Giles in Cambridge to raise funds and awareness for refugees in northern France the homeless of Cambridge. Members of the public sponsored the volunteer sleepers […]
Your generosity has pushed our online fundraiser beyond £5,000. Now join us at St Giles on Saturday from 1.30pm for the Winter Fair and speeches, after which our volunteers will bed down for the night.
"What’s great about you guys is that you turn up with no ego and just ask what needs doing and then do it."
CamCRAG has once again erected a sea of tents in the grounds of St Giles Church to highlight the plight of the homeless in Cambridge and refugees sleeping rough in northern France. The tents will stay outside St Giles until after the Big Cambridge Calais Sleepout this coming Saturday 26 […]
There’s just ten days to go until our Big Cambridge Calais Sleepout weekend, with a Winter Fair on Saturday 26 January followed by the sponsored sleepout. You can still get involved – by volunteering to sleep outside for the night, helping at the Fair on the day or sponsoring one […]
The SOS tents project held a successful workshop this week, trialing the design worked out over last summer. Volunteers built nine tents out of tarpaulin, bamboo and tape. These will be put to the test at The Big Sleepout in two weeks’ time, when some of CamCRAG’s sponsored sleepout volunteers […]