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Mobile Refugee Support provides a variety of services and support to refugees and displaced people.

Mobile Refugee Support was established in June 2017 following the destruction of the Calais Jungle and La Linière camp in Grande-Synthe. Since then we have offered mobile aid and support to displaced people living in and around northern France. This organisation is currently based in Calais from where we attempt to target locations that have been neglected by governments and larger charities. We work closely with several other grassroots organisations based in the area, as well as larger international NGOs. MRS provides a variety of services, including access to basic essentials and equipment in order to enable more bearable living conditions. Additionally, we provide communication support, including daily services of access to power and WiFi for up to 500 people at a time. Furthermore, our organisation offers a range of specialist services such as personalised food packs, phone repairs and the provision of relevant up-to-date information for those stranded without homes or safety in foreign countries. Over these last two years we have developed and finely tuned many of our procedures and services to fit the needs of the individuals we support. Our core team currently consists of several experienced aid workers alongside a rotation of shorter term volunteers. Our teams on the ground are well versed with all the services we provide and work closely with the communities on a daily basis, creating mutual trust and respect.

20/06/2026

On this listen to our co-founder Jed speak on .calais on the theme of courage.

We honour the courage shown by refugees, asylum seekers and refugees. But courage is a necessity born from fear. Seeking safety should never be frightening, not for anyone.

“I think that courage can have a lot of different meanings when it comes to the context of working in this field.

There are many different instances of courage being a necessity for people who are displaced, and those can range from having the courage to search for a better life for oneself, to having the courage to keep hope alive when odds seems not to favor you, having the courage to settle into a new life in a new country with no guarantees of safety or asylum.

I think unfortunately with today’s all too common xenophobic rhetoric, even the simple act of existing as a person who is a refugee, asylum seeker, or displaced in itself requires a lot of courage.

We meet people every single day who’ve put their own lives at risk for the sake of a better life, only for politics and media to demonize them for seeking safety.

And yet despite that, people are still able to maintain hope and positivity, which is incredibly courageous.

I think oftentimes people find themselves with no choice but to be courageous, as the journey they’re making is out of complete necessity, and that’s a failure of our systems as a whole.

Oxford Languages defines courage as the ability to do something that is frightening.

Seeking safety and sanctuary in another country should not be a frightening experience.

Integrating into any society should not be frightening.

The asylum system, news headlines, and political perspectives should not be frightening to the most vulnerable of our collective societies.

The fact that courage is necessary means that all of these things are frightening, and I think that’s a very sad thing indeed.”

14/06/2026

We have just two festival salvages in the UK so we’re hoping to get as many volunteers as possible to come and collect all the abandoned tents and sleeping bags that would otherwise end up in landfill.

Our partners Herts For Refugees are organising the salvage and you can contact them if you’d like to join any of the dates. They have sign up forms linked in their bio.

Gathering left behind tents and sleeping bags from festivals is how we ensure we can equip displaced people surviving in the makeshift camps around Dunkirk with the very basic need for shelter.
Without salvage we would not be able to equip the thousands of people we meet every year, experiencing displacement and living through some of the harshest conditions made all the worse by escalating police violence.
Once a week, sometimes more, the state evicts people from their makeshift camps, taking away their tents, bedding and very often the few personal items they have.

You can help support these people, by joining a salvage date. No experience needed!

⛺️Boomtown, Wi******er 18th and possibly 19th August
⛺️ Reading festival, Reading 31st August and 1st September.

Head over to Herts For Refugees to sign up via the forms in their bio

Thank you 🙏

31/05/2026

Festival salvage is where 90% of the tents we give out come from. It allows us to have sufficient tents not only to give shelter to people as they arrive in the makeshift camp of Dunkirk but also to respond to the destructive and violent evictions during which people’s tents are destroyed and/or taken.

Sleeping bags, clothing, tarpaulin and canned food are other items we gather during festival salvage.

If you are in Belgium or the Netherlands joining one of these salvage dates is an easy and very useful way of supporting displaced people sleeping rough. The organisers of each salvage are linked next to the dates. Please message them directly.

⛺️ 29 June Paradise City, Park Steenokkerzeel, BE

⛺️ 30 June DEFQON, Biddinghuizen, NI

⛺️ 6 July Rock Werchter, Rotselaar, BE

⛺️ 13 July Awakenings, Hilvarenbeek, NI

⛺️ 20 July Tomorrowland, Boom, BE
⛺️ 27 July Tomorrowland Boom, BE
Both dates
⛺️ 27 July Liquicity, NI
⛺️ 3 August Solar WE Maasplassen, Roermond (Nl)

⛺️ 24 August Pukkelpop, Kiewit, Hasselt

06/05/2026

The people we support often have very little with them when they arrive. A few clothes, some personal items and the one pair of shoes they are wearing.

That pair of shoes has carried them for miles already and it doesn’t take long for them to be ruined. The mud, the sand, the salt water, the elements and the miles and miles walked everyday all contribute to that one pair of shoes quickly ending up in tatters. The result is injured feet and the spread of infections and disease like trench foot.

Shoes is one of the most in demand items we provide. We replace them when they are broken with a pair that is suitable for the season and that will hopefully see them through the harsh conditions.

Receiving donations of new or good quality second hand shoes is vital for us to continue equipping displaced people. Such a donation came from recently. They sent us dozens of pairs of new trainers in all the sizes needed most. We give on average 30 pairs of shoes a week to replace broken ones. This donation will mean we can continue to do so for the coming months.

The support we receive from organisations such as means we are able to carry on supporting displaced communities with the most basic items they need to make their time on this hostile border slightly more bearable.

25/01/2026

As part of the festival salvage we receive from our partners in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands we had accumulated a large amount of inflatable airbeds.
They’re not an item we could easily distribute as they need to be inflated with a pump and we didn’t have many of those.
They do provide some extra comfort though, helping to keep bedding off the ground, offering a slightly more comfortable surface for sleeping.
So we decided to take them to distro and simply get people involved with inflating them.

On several occasions we brought the mattresses to the distribution point along with a number of pumps. Our team helped, everyone shared the pumps, taking it in turns and helping each other out. Families took the large mattresses, kids started using them to practice cartwheels, people chatted to each other as they inflated the airbeds. Friendly competitions started to see who could inflate their mattress the fastest.

We focus all our distributions on the most vital items. Our ethos is always to support people with items and services to make their time enduring the harsh conditions slightly more bearable. Airbeds may seem like quite trivial items. They’re not vital but they give a little bit of extra comfort in what are harsh living conditions.
Items we thought we couldn’t distribute have provided some instant respite and lifted spirits. That means a lot to us.

04/01/2026

Phone charging is how it all started for us.

Having a charged mobile phone is a lifeline for displaced people.

We support communication and information needs by bringing phone charging to camp any day it is needed and by charging power banks overnight back at the warehouse.

In makeshift camps where there is no access to electricity at all, charge is one of those simple services we have always provided and will continue to provide for as long as it is necessary.

02/01/2026

We truly understood the importance and meaning of washing people’s clothes with the rate at which the demand for our laundry service has increased.

Laundry has become one of our most in demand services.

To help with making a difference for someone by washing their clothes, please consider a donation.

Our Just Giving and PayPal links are in our bio.
If you would prefer to do a bank transfer please DM us

Thank you 🙏

30/12/2025

Having a blanket and a sleeping bags is a basic vital necessity for people forced to sleep outside.
We distribute these items every single day, prioritising new arrivals and re-equipping after evictions.

But everyday we run out and we have to turn people away.

Please consider a donation to allow us to have more to give.
With €15 we can buy a winter sleeping bag

Our links to donate are in our bio.

26/12/2025

We have to be honest.
Amidst the moral injury of the world and the collective grief roaring inside us all, knowing what to say to raise funds this Christmas hasn’t been easy.

We can start the long list of all that is revolting and wrong with the way people continue to be treated on this border.

Walls have been built.
Literally and figuratively.
More than ever before hateful and dehumanising language is being paroted by politics and the media alike.
British far-right groups have come to the camp to intimidate and harass people in exile.
Attacks on human rights and downright lies are rife.

Being part of a system that contradicts everything we believe to be right.
Witnessing harm and feeling powerless to stop it.
It can feel hopeless.

So what can we do?
We keep showing up. Louder, more determined and steadfast.
To drown out the racist rethoric and othering.
When communities are being targeted and scapegoated we must respond with solidarity and hope. With the conviction that we can make a difference for one person at a time.

We have one wish for Christmas
To help more
To support every man, woman and child we meet with the basic vital items and support they need to make their time in exile more bearable.
It’s the bare minimum.

You can be part of that.

With your donation we can give one more sleeping bag, tent, pair of shoes or winter jacket.

We can expand our services and take in more laundry, distribute more food packs, say yes more often than we have to say no.

Donate what you can to make a real difference for one person.

As humans looking out for humans
Standing with and for each other
In kinship.
We won’t back down.

Links to donate through paypal or justgiving are in our bio.

24/12/2025

With €15 we can buy a new pair of winter boots
Shoes are one of the items most in demand and we never have enough
It’s a lot of saying no
And a lot of hating that we have any say at all in who needs shoes the most.
Your donation could be the difference between someone facing the elements in flip flops or in a sturdy new pair of winter boots.

Donation links are in bio as well as linked on stories.
Thank you

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59140, 59240, 59640

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