Concerned residents in Cambridge have responded to scenes of chaos in the Calais refugee camp by sending money to support those providing food for minors left stranded. After the French Government acted on its threat to move into the camp and evict the residents, many refugees, including children, were left […]
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The following update comes from Help Refugees. We can confirm that the eviction of the Calais camp will begin on Monday. The authorities have devised a system for registering camp residents according to their status, taking into consideration minors, family units, and people with vulnerabilities not covered by either of […]
The Cambridge Calais Refugee Action Group was formed one year ago and since then its supporters have raised money for food, generators, tents, sleeping bags, lanterns and building materials for the Calais refugee camp. So far the group has taken 250 people to Calais on its regular convoys and more volunteers are […]
You may have been reading about the planned demolition of the camp in Calais. Because of these plans we are looking for a number of items urgently to take to Calais in the next 3 weeks to help the refugees with their transition. Ideally if you could collect as many […]
Come along to a night of fundraising and live music in Cambridge on Wednesday October 12 to mark one year since our group formed. The evening at the Hot Numbers Cafe on Gwydir Street will feature live music from James White, Helen Robertson, Zeben Jameson, Joe Hillman, Adz ‘Queenie’ Bond, Stewart Harris […]
We would like to say a huge thanks to everyone who brought donations to our event on Sunday (Sept 18), and helped out on the day. We had a fantastic response with a large amount of clothes and food being donated and sorted. Our next convoy heads out to Calais […]
Next month Cambridge will host the East Anglia regional Amnesty International conference – an opportunity for people to discuss migration issues and find out how to help. The event, on Saturday 8th October at the United Reform Church on Trumpington Street will start with a global overview of the issues facing refugees and internally displaced […]
We are organising a donations drop off event on Sunday 18th September 10am – 1pm at Bodywork Studio, Glisson Rd, Cambridge to collect donations of clothes, food, tents, blankets, sleeping bags, camping mats, pots and pans to take to the refugees in Calais on our next convoy. Most of the residents, […]
Life in the Calais jungle continues to get harder as numbers approach ten thousand in a third of the space they had to occupy last year when they were told to move onto the area of dunes the Calasiens call ‘La Lande’. At the beginning of August the French authorities […]
A convoy of Cambridge residents is heading to Calais this weekend taking food and a caravan as volunteers warn the refugee camp there is growing by the day. 35 people will take 8 cars on a ferry crossing to Calais on Friday for a weekend of work at the Jungle […]