Thank you to all our volunteers who helped staff the CamCRAG stall at Strawberry Fair this year. It was great to see so many faces, some familiar and some new, but all eager to help and support refugees. We would also like to think the wonderful volunteer organisers of this […]
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Thank you to everyone who came to the Pawn Hearts’ gig at NCI Social Club last Saturday. All three acts were excellent, and the vibe was really great: Special thank yous go to Helen Robertson and Shoot the Pianist. The night raised £250 which will be split between CamCRAG and […]
The Poncho Project team have some very special events coming up… This Friday they will be making crafts from offcuts for sale at our stall at Strawberry Fair, followed on Saturday by a session to make bags from otherwise unusable tent fabric. Then on SATURDAY 9 JUNE there […]
We are delighted that our friends at Cambridge 105 Community Radio have selected CamCRAG to be the station’s charity of the month in May. You can hear interviews with our volunteers on shows throughout the month, including from April’s convoy to Calais when we were accompanied by the station’s reporters. […]
The Daily Bread Co-operative in Kings Hedges and the Box Cafe on Norfolk Street both keep a CamCRAG change collection tin by their tills. We recently emptied both, receiving £53.07 from the Box Cafe and £122.47 from the Daily Bread. Thank you! Could you keep a change collection tin in […]
CamCRAG Chair Elliot Harris looks back at another weekend at the warehouse in Calais. I can’t believe it’s almost been a week since we went on another convoy to Calais! (and just over 6 weeks since the last one!) Yet again the Cambridge crew did us proud, mucking in all […]
Want to join us for a weekend volunteering in Calais? CamCRAG has announced dates for all of our remaining convoys in 2018. CamCRAG convoys leave Cambridge on Friday evenings, returning Sunday evening, and will take place on these weekends: June 8 – 10 July 27 – 29 September 7 – […]
Thank you to everyone who gave so generously at Bethel Baptist Church in Swavesey last Saturday. We received over 20kg of food, 23 sleeping bags, 8 bags of clothes, and several boxes of hygiene and kitchen consumables, and other donations. These are now in our storage and will soon be […]
Teaching and learning with refugee children and teenagers on the island of Chios 17th September – 17th December 2017 by Elena Natale – elena.natale@icloud.com Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. – Paulo Coelho The difficulty of putting my experience in Chios into words is overcome by the urge […]
The CamCRAG Poncho Project team, who have so far made over 1000 ponchos for refugees in Europe, now have their own website! At camcrag.org.uk/ponchos you can find out all the latest info about the project, including future sewing sessions, how to buy your own poncho, how to donate to the […]