Care4Calais

Care4Calais A volunteer-run charity supporting refugees in the UK and France. You can find out more about us at www.care4calais.org
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Care4Calais is a volunteer-run charity delivering essential aid and support to refugees living in the UK and Northern France. We believe in a fair and tolerant British society and advocate for a welcoming and inclusive attitude towards refugees. Operating year round, we provide warm clothing, bedding, food and medical assistance to people in desperate need. We also provide social support and inter

action, including language lessons and sports and music workshops. We are not politicians; we are ordinary people like you who believe that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity. We are on the ground with the refugees every single day, and are respectful of their common humanity and responsive to their needs. We use our on-the-ground presence and relationship with the refugee community to provide the much-needed help that other organisations are not able to. We also work with research and media organisations to advocate for a welcoming and inclusive attitude towards refugees and asylum seekers. We have hosted thousands of volunteers, politicians, journalists and campaigners at our centre in Calais and are involved in a number of campaigns aimed at influencing the public’s perception of refugees.

2,300 dots. One red. Can you find it?That one red dot represents every refugee that crossed the Channel in the last year...
21/08/2026

2,300 dots. One red. Can you find it?

That one red dot represents every refugee that crossed the Channel in the last year. The other 2,299 dots represent the rest of the UK's population.

That's what politicians and the media are focusing all their attention on. That one red dot. 0.04% of the UK's population.

They're not focusing on the wars, persecution and torture that forced the people behind the red dot to flee their homes.

They're blaming the red dot for the Government failing to create good jobs, build council homes, and invest in public services.

For politicians and the media, the red dot is used to take the focus off the super-rich who avoid paying tax, or the private landlords who rip renters off.

But behind the red dot are people who have survived unimaginable horrors and are just seeking safety.

They didn't choose to be a refugee. And they didn't ask the Tories to close all safe routes to claim asylum, or demand the Labour Government didn't open any.

If the Government created safe routes, those behind the red dot wouldn't need to cross the Channel on a small boat.

Agree that people fleeing war, torture and persecution deserve the right to safety? Comment SAFE ROUTES to email Andy Burnham and demand his Government open them.

19/08/2026

What we actually do is the reason the right attack us.

Comment SOLIDARITY and we will send you the link to join us.

You may have seen us in some media headlines (or right-wing politicians’ social media feeds). But here’s what we actuall...
18/08/2026

You may have seen us in some media headlines (or right-wing politicians’ social media feeds). But here’s what we actually do!

Care4Calais is a volunteer-powered refugee charity working both sides of the Channel. In northern France we distribute humanitarian aid including clothing and items that provide shelter, as well as offering services like hair-cutting and phone charging. Last year we handed out over 116,000 items in France alone.

But we don’t stop in France. Across the UK we support people seeking safety: distributing clothing to those sent to isolated ex-military camps like Wethersfield and Crowborough, helping people get legal representation for their asylum claims, and taking this Government to court over Rwanda, Channel pushbacks and the use of those camps.

Frontline aid in Calais. Grassroots support in the UK. Few charities do both - and that’s exactly why the far-right work so hard to smear us.
We’re a people-powered movement of volunteers and campaigners. That’s all of us.
Comment SOLIDARITY and we’ll DM you the link to join us.

Refugees welcome. Always.

17/08/2026

If you listened to UK politicians and parts of the media, you would think all refugees want to come to the UK. But that couldn't be further from the truth.

Even in Europe, Germany, France, Italy and Spain all receive more asylum claims than the UK.

Per head of population, the UK is 15th for the number of asylum claims made across Europe last year.

These are the facts. Share and save them for the next time you hear someone make false claims.

Comment SOLIDARITY below to join our movement and counter more misinformation about refugees and their right to safety.

Can you believe Reform’s unelected member for hate, division and bullsh*t has been spreading misinformation about Care4C...
13/08/2026

Can you believe Reform’s unelected member for hate, division and bullsh*t has been spreading misinformation about Care4Calais today?

We didn’t think so.

Reform’s Zia Yusuf has piled in to the hysterical nonsense from GB News who dedicated a whole news segment to our annual report (even listing the 160,000+ items of clothing and support services we provided to refugees last year - you know, the kind of charitable work that charities do…)

Zia’s claim is that Care4Calais has been handing out Vodafone sim cards to refugees in Calais. The problem? That’s not true.

The sim cards, obtained through Vodafone’s charities:connected scheme (which is open to all registered charities in the UK), were all handed out in the UK. Many were provided to people living in ex-military camps like Wethersfield.

Unbelievably, Zia Yusuf wrote to Vodafone’s CEO threatening that a Reform government would jail them based on his false claim. A Vodafone spokesperson rebuffed his nonsense.

Zia Yusuf has never stood for election but he has been gifted a political platform by Nigel Farage. He chooses to use that platform to spread hate, division and bullsh*t.

Unfortunately that (like the rubbish from media platforms like GB News) has consequences and in recent days our staff and volunteers have been attacked online. Charity workers and volunteers should never be threatened for carrying out charity work.

Help us spread the truth by sharing and reposting this post.

If you want to stand against the hate and division of Zia Yusuf and GB News, comment SOLIDARITY and join our movement.

12/08/2026

Volunteer for festival salvage by commenting SALVAGE, BOOMTOWN or READING below and we will DM you the form to sign up to help out at the following festivals.

📍 Boomtown - Tuesday 18th August
📍 Reading Festival - Monday 31st August
📍 Leeds Festival - Monday 31st August
📍 Creamfields Monday 31st August

11/08/2026

BREAKING: GB News discovers our annual report. 🚨

In an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism, GB News has uncovered… the work we proudly publish ourselves every year.

Warm clothes. SIM cards. Food packs. Phone charging. English lessons. Bike repairs. Support for people who need it.

And the best bit? Every one of those numbers represents something our incredible supporters and volunteers made possible.

Thanks for reading our annual report, GB News.

We’re proud of our work. And we’ll keep doing it.

Want to help us do even more? Donate or volunteer with Care4Calais:
https://help.care4calais.org/page/148309/donate/1

Mo grew up stateless in Kuwait, one of the Bidoon, a community denied citizenship and the most basic rights.As a child, ...
11/08/2026

Mo grew up stateless in Kuwait, one of the Bidoon, a community denied citizenship and the most basic rights.

As a child, he was tortured. He still lives with permanent nerve and tissue damage, and with pain that has never fully left him.

Today, Mo is safe. He's been granted protection here in the UK and is rebuilding his life in Scotland. He bravely chose to share his story publicly, in The National, so that people would understand what survival really costs.

But his wounds haven't healed. Mo needs specialist treatment, and it will cost at least £5,500. Thanks to supporters like you, he's already halfway there - and with your help, he can start to heal.

Please give what you can today. Comment TREATMENT and we will send you the link via the comments.

Remember: every share helps us reach more people who can help Mo reach his target.

10/08/2026

If you’re asking why do people cross the Channel on small boats, you’re asking the wrong question.

Ask yourself instead - what safe alternative did they have?

The solution to Channel crossings is, and always has been, safe routes. Agree? Comment SAFE ROUTES below and join our campaign demanding our new Prime Minister introduces them.

"They removed me to France under 'one in, one out.' I was back in Britain within weeks."This is Ahmad's story.Ahmad fled...
06/08/2026

"They removed me to France under 'one in, one out.' I was back in Britain within weeks."

This is Ahmad's story.

Ahmad fled Afghanistan after his work defending human rights, democracy and women's rights made him a target. He faced direct threats to his life. On the journey to safety he was beaten by Croatian police, and by the time he reached the UK in March he says he had lost all hope.

Then he was picked, at random, to be returned to France under the government's 'one in, one out' scheme. They removed him in April. He came straight back.

This time, Care4Calais's Legal Access team helped him secure legal representation. His lawyer successfully stopped the deportation, arguing that Ahmad's life and safety were at risk in France. He was granted bail, his removal was cancelled altogether, and his asylum claim will now be heard here in the UK.

"When I received the news that my removal had been stopped, I felt deeply relieved and happy."

Ahmad is one of many. Our Legal Access team is currently supporting a further 21 people detained under the same scheme - all facing removal to France.

To stop it, we need your help. Comment DETENTION and we will send you the link to donate to our detention casework team.

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