Help For Children Of Ukraine

08/03/2026

Trip down to England today to do a halfway swap to collect aid collection from Chester. Met with a lovely bacon roll and tea 😃. Some real quality baby clothes, tents, sleeping bags and more organised Tracey Telford.

03/03/2026

Candles, remnants of candles, empty food tins (washed and label taken off) and corrugated cardboard can be dropped off to The Crown Biggar.

Today our request is a little bit different from the items for baby boxes!

Can you help with the following items
🕯Candles
🕯Remnants of old candles
🥫Tins (washed and labels removed please)
📦Corrugated cardboard.

We work in partnership with the men's shed in Biggar creating what is known as trench candles. The request for these items has outgrown our supply of tins and candle wax.

We urgently are in need of the items to make these, to allow thoes on the front lines have ability to cook warm meals, stay warm and provide light.

These can be dropped of to your local hosts, or any of our hubs.

20/02/2026

Two pick ups yesterday, first from Wiston Lodge with general donations and 150 sets of single bedding for one of our orphanages. Then onto Ayrshire-Ukraine community group for a variety of aid going out on our next trip in March.

19/02/2026

Thank you so much to the ladies of Dolphinton WRI with these fantastic donations collected for us to take to Ukraine. We loved showing you a presentation on our experiences in Ukraine. It was a pleasure.

15/02/2026

Following is rough translation of what they are saying: Congratulations! Thank you very much to the children their parents and teachers of the biggar primary school for supporting the kherson families. In this difficult time, your help with groceries is not just basic necessities, but a real sense of care and humanity. It's very valuable to know that we are remembered and supported even from other countries. Your kindness is inspiring and empowering. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

08/02/2026

Road out was a bit interesting but now safely in Poland.

08/02/2026

Long day yesterday after a full night of air raids, with everything we wanted to do completed. Distributed our aid and had chance to visit a Tatar family displaced from Crimea that our partners Red Poppy Foundation have helped for years. Really heart breaking to see how they are living but so humbling. Also met with a deputy mayor of unamed city who we discussed further help for the children in his city. We should get out and over the border today.

07/02/2026

03/02/2026

We are on our way again and have boarded the ferry. Hopefully cross into Ukraine on Friday. Real special cargo this time with all the food collected by the children, parents, helpers and teachers at Biggar Primary School on board ready for distribution. Also have 50 Scot baby boxes on board each packed with £500 of essential aid.