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Visit the charity's profileAs the bombardment of Ukraine continues to exacerbate the refugee crisis across Europe, Aid Box Community is announcing a Crowd-funder campaign to raise money to expand its services.
600 Ukrainian refugees are arriving in Bristol through the Homes for Ukraine scheme, and many more are expected in the coming weeks to join family members already in the UK. The people who will be arriving independently or via illegal routes will have no government support.
We are dealing with an unprecedented situation, where our network of small charities will have to support more people than it ever has. To welcome these families to our city and provide them with the support, supplies, and sanctuary they will need to settle here, we are asking you to help us with a monetary donation.
We have never seen this before, Bristol people opening their doors to host refugees on this scale. It's so great, but means we will need to support both the people who have been displaced and the families taking people in. It will be by no means easy.
Our small charity has had to quickly expand once again to a big crisis. We are so grateful we can continue to provide a place where people can feel secure, feel loved, and feel that they can have hope. To do this, we need local support now more than ever before. Please dig deep and support us and our cause in any way you can. - Imogen McIntosh, Founder and Director
Having fled their homes and left behind all that was known, all they had worked for, and all that was loved, forcibly displaced people lack a sense of security and identity.
Physical, emotional, and psychological needs are often not met. Additionally, these people will have recently experienced hardship and trauma.
With your help, we will be able to provide practical necessities, dignity, belonging, and community to all the refugees who are arriving in Bristol and need our support. With our services we want to ensure all refugees and people who seek safety feel loved and feel like they can have hope.
Please donate what you can to Aid Box Community at this difficult time. With this new influx of refugees, we want to ensure we can provide our services to everyone, and we rely on people like you to keep our doors open.
Monthly donations help us guarantee we can continue to run and are important for us to provide long-term support. https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/8535#!/DonationDetails
The funds you donate will be going to our Essential Aid and Crisis funds. Our essential aid fund allows us to buy all items that cannot be donated or which we are short on, such as underwear, toiletry, nappies, food, socks, bus fares, etc. Our crisis fund makes it possible for us to respond to an immediate crisis. This could be providing a train fare for a legal appointment, to fund urgent dental appointments and care, to provide essential clothes and bedding for over 200 men in a scabies outbreak, or to respond to a sudden influx in demand as a consequence of conflict and persecution, as we see with Ukraine.
I feel so much better now, like I'm alive - M, Service User
Aid Box Community provides support, supplies, and sanctuary to the hundreds of refugees and people seeking asylum living in Bristol. By providing practical support and a sense of community, their aim is to alleviate financial burdens and facilitate integration.
They welcome displaced people with open arms and provide love, hope, advocacy, and a space where everyone belongs, and everyone is important. They run a free shop & welcome hub, activity groups, wellbeing programmes, and a befriending service.
To find out more about what we do and see some of the special people we are involved with please visit our website: https://www.aidboxcommunity.co.uk/
Charity number 1172697
174b Cheltenham Road, Montpelier, Bristol, BS6 5RE
£10 could buy packet of nappies and wipes for a family.
£15 could buy essential kitchen items, like a kettle or a pan.
£20 could buy a backpack to carry or store items.
£50 could buy a winter coat to keep someone warm during the winter months.
£500 funds 100 bus journeys for our members to travel to; legal appointments, medical appointments & Home Office interviews; to our Free Shop; and to our weekly activity groups and wellbeing programmes.
£3, 600 funds a years worth of essential supplies for our Free Shop & Welcome Hub.
£5, 000 is the cost to keep our Welcome Hub & Free Shop running for a month.
£7, 500 funds our Women's group for three months - a safe and welcoming weekly activity group where our women members come together to connect and build community.
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