Catharine Walston gives a rundown of the July Convoy The 150 mile journey from Cambridge to Calais is normally an easy, stress-free trip and, with the current border controls, wonders of the Eurotunnel and smooth traffic conditions on the M25, should take about 4½ hours. However, July’s convoy saw new […]
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We would like to extend a massive thank you to everyone at Holy Trinity Church who helped to organise and run yesterday’s donations drop off day in Haddenham, and to everyone who gave so generously. Following the recent fire at the Dunkirk Womens Centre it’s inspiring to see normal people […]
CamCRAG would like to extend a massive thank you to newlyweds Norm and Becky, who donated the 30 tents and 50 sleeping bags provided for their wedding guests earlier this summer. These will be going to Calais on our next weekend convoy in September – to join us sign up […]
Around 14,000 people will walk pass our SOS Tent at the Cambridge Folk Festival this weekend. If you are one of them, take a pic and give us a shout on social media #SOSTents The SOS Tents project aims to keep the Help Refugees warehouse in Calais stocked with sufficient […]
CamCRAG is pleased to announce that it is to continue to fund Refugee Community Kitchen £1000 per month until at least September of this year. The charity has a long standing association with the community-run kitchen, which operates out of Help Refugees’ warehouse in Calais. Many volunteers on our weekend […]
Cambridge 105 presenters Neil Whiteside and Linda Ness visited the Help Refugees warehouse in Calais during CamCRAG’s April Convoy. You can now listen online to their experiences, featuring some fascinating interviews with volunteers: cambridge105.co.uk/shows/neil-linda-on-the-camcrag-convoy Neil and Linda were in Calais with CamCRAG as part of their research ahead of us […]
CamCRAG would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who helped organise yesterday’s donation drop-off day at St John’s Church on Hills Road, and to the many people who came along and gave so generously. As you can see, we received numerous boxes and bags of clothing, sleeping […]
CamCRAG’s poncho project is in full swing, aiming to make hundreds of ponchos this summer for refugees in Europe this coming winter. On June 30th Cambridge Buddhist Centre held a social action day, and made 29 ponchos in two and a half hours! A big thank you to them from […]
A big thank you to all those who helped at events during Refugee Week, and those who recently raised some funds for CamCRAG. The Strummers gig during Refugee Week raised £185 while entertaining the crowd with some excellent live music, while last week Alejandro Rodriguez and Cambridge Student Action for […]
CamCRAG volunteer Estere talks about her first CamCRAG convoy to Calais June was my first time on a CamCRAG convoy, which left me with lots of amazing but also slightly contradictory emotions, but hopefully resulted in some useful work done in the warehouse. Even though most of the thousands of […]