Thank you to everyone who came to the poetry reading and concert at St Barnabas’ last week: The evening was a great success and completely sold out! Michael Rosen and ReSound Acappella Choir were wonderful, aided by everyone who came along and added to the fantastic atmosphere. Thanks to all […]
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CamCRAG Chair Elliot Harris reports back from another productive weekend volunteering in Calais Thank you to Refugee Community Kitchen (RCK), Help Refugees, L’Auberge des Migrants and all of the other wonderful groups who slog away every day and who treat us like family when we pop down to the warehouse […]
Today is your last chance to buy tickets for tonight’s fundraising concert with Michael Rosen and ReSound Acappella Choir, at St Barnabas Church Hall, Mill Road CB1 2BD at 7pm. You can get your tickets for £10 (plus booking fee) at yours-hopefully.eventbrite.co.uk – all profits go to CamCRAG. This is […]
It’s snowing again in Paris today and, with temperatures barely getting above freezing, conditions for the hundreds of refugees living on the streets continue to be dire. But thanks to your generosity we have been able to provide a little help to those in need. CamCRAG has purchased 430 body […]
Can you help us turn blankets into 600 ponchos before our next convoy to Calais on 23 February? Following very positive feedback from both refugees and volunteers on the ponchos we made over the past few months for distribution in Calais, we’re making more! We’re hoping to make 600 ponchos […]
Do you have a car or van in the Cambridge area? How about a weekend volunteering in Calais this February? We are urgently looking for volunteer drivers and vehicles to go on our next convoy to Calais on Friday 23 February. We volunteer for the weekend with Help Refugees at […]
The Big Cambridge-Calais Sleepout, held on homeless Sunday, 28 January, has raised over £11,000 for CamCRAG and Cambridge homeless charity Wintercomfort. The volunteers who slept out in the grounds of St Giles’ Church didn’t get much sleep, but knew they were safer and warmer than many who sleep rough on […]
Regular CamCRAG volunteer Mark reports back on another successful CamCRAG convoy weekend in Calais… “So I’m back from another CamCRAG convoy. ‘Nice’ seems the wrong word to use for a weekend helping refugees in Calais, but how else do I describe the atmosphere and people at L’Auberge des Migrants. If […]
We’d like to say a big thank you to a couple of fundraisers for CamCRAG held in Cambridge in the run up to Christmas. Firstly, thanks to everyone at The Locker Cafe for raising £540 from their seasonal pots and gifts sale (the editor bought some of the pottery, it […]
Today is the last of our three sewing sessions this weekend and, thanks to your hard work and support, we are on course to have 300 ponchos ready by Thursday to go with our convoy to Calais on Friday, all funded by a generous grant from the Radley Trust, donations […]