ABOUT US
New Forest for Ukraine is a group of like-minded, non-political volunteers living in the New Forest. We are and united by our determination to help the millions of people displaced by the war in Ukraine, and our belief that together we can make a difference.
We focus on collecting and delivering the latest required aid directly to Ukrainian refugees and those still in Ukraine, and we do so quickly and efficiently. We have a network of collection sites across the New Forest to which the public donate aid. The sites range from garden centres and shops to volunteers' houses, from where our transport volunteers carry the aid to our Lymington hub. There, our hub volunteers sort, service as required, then pack, label and palletise the aid ready for shipment.
When we started in February 2022, aid was shipped by cars. As needs grew, we delivered by vans. Today it is carried on monthly scheduled articulated trucks, each carrying 8 to 10 tonnes of humanitarian aid. All funded by public donations generated by appeals and by attending events.
As of February 2025, we have sent over 471 metric tonnes and we turn each £1 of cash donated into £100 worth of delivered aid. We also do what we can to ensure door-to-door traceability to ensure your donations get to the people who need them most, including individuals and families sheltering on the front line.
We cooperate with other local Ukraine support groups to maximize efficiencies, sharing collections and deliveries. We ship only to Charity Foundations in Ukraine to ensure the right support gets to the right people as quickly as possible.
Updates on the very latest requirements are provided to us weekly, and we adjust our appeals accordingly. We react swiftly to each new disaster, striving to deliver exactly what is required to the requested locations before larger charities possibly can.
No one within NFFU takes a salary. Even our hub is donated. We all love what we do. Together we make a difference. Together we deliver a future of hope. If you share our passion and wish to join with us, please get in touch.
We urgently need physical and financial donations to keep our operations going. Please help in any way that you can. All of our team are volunteers, and are doing what we can to support, collect, sort and transport aid.
We welcome the opportunity to partner with like-minded groups to support the people of Ukraine.