All Saints aid trips

Support the All Saints Calais Project

The Current Situation in Calais

What's happening?
Since the closure of the camp nicknamed "The Jungle" refugees have been dispersed but are still in and around Calais and Dunkirk, desperately in need of help.

Interview with Revd. Jeremy Putnam regarding the situation in Calais

What are we doing?
In December 2017, we made a delivery to two organisations, Care 4 Calais and Mobile Refugee Support. These two organisations support refugees in Calais, Dunkirk and Brussels but are always finding small groups of refugees in many of the local towns and villages. We took over clothing such as trainers and warm winter coats, small tents, tarpaulins, sleeping bags, bags of toiletries, food to make up food parcels and high energy bars and dried fruit.

What is the situation on the ground?
The accommodation that the refugees have at this time of year is very sparse so most of them are living outdoors, wherever they can find shelter: under trees, or wherever they can be out of out of sight of the local police.

Get involved
We will be making the next trip from Friday 2nd to Monday 5th March to, so if you are able to contribute items from the list below this would be greatly appreciated. For ease of making clothing donations, please use the clothing bank in our front car park. If you have donations such as food etc. then please place them in the church porch.
If you have any questions or would like advice about appropriate donations, please ring Rowley on 07713 113459. Our previous trips have included people who volunteered for a week, working with Care 4 Calais, doing distributions in France and Belgium. If you would be interested in becoming a member of a volunteer party, please ring Rowley on the number above.

DONATE BY MOBILE TEXT
Text ASRA16 £10 to 70070
to donate to All Saints Highertown and
make a difference today.
(Your donation will only be used for our refugee projects).

Rowley

All Saints calais project leader

Rowley is a Churchwarden as well our project coordinator for the All Saints' aid trips

Luke 3:11 – “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none…”

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Our Parish Safeguarding Co-ordinator, Mrs Irene Mortimore who can be contacted through the church office on 01872 495121. | And our Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser, Sarah Acraman who can be contacted on 01872 274351.
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In emergency situation:
Local Authority Children’s Social Care: 0300 123 1116 | Local Authority Adult’s Social Care: 0300 1234131