NEWS

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OTHER NEWS

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• NEW PREMISES - 330 Ampress Lane, Lymington SO418LZ. This month NFFU have relocated to new hub premises, just next door to our previous location. A huge thanks to the Gill family and Gill Instruments team for ensuring we have a secure home through this upcoming winter.

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• Become a Friend of New Forest for Ukraine and join our community of monthly givers. Our new regular donation scheme is a most effective way to support our work. A regular payment of £3.99 will help us deliver essentials to people living in desperate circumstances. Your generosity will go a long way. Please go to our Donate Money page for more information.

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• NFFU have increased the frequency of Artics departing Lymington for Ukraine. This is a response to the growing number of internally displaced people within Ukraine. Each artic contains 52 filled pallets of humanitarian aid destined for distribution across Ukraine via eight selected Charity Foundations, and right now we need them departing every two weeks.

 

• As of the end of October 2024, NFFU have delivered over 372 metric tonnes of aid and need to deliver an additional 50 tonnes in the run up to Christmas. Our amazing community is providing the aid. We only need help to get it delivered. The need for aid today is greater than before. One of our NGOs, Give Good Foundation in P’yatykhatky, Eastern Ukraine, has reported that they are the very last facility standing in their city supporting displaced people still arriving. We cannot let them down so need to keep those wheels rolling.

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• A massive thanks this month to Erica and John Elliot who delivered and huge amount of aid to the hub from family, friends, and associates in Birmingham. Their incredible effort transformed an ordinary day at our hub into a celebration of kindness and creativity. Their van was a treasure trove of hope. Lyn's exquisite quilts, each one a patchwork of dreams and colourful stories, were adorned with heartfelt messages stitched with love, which will bring smiles to everyone who receives them. Erica and John explained that their local Cups and Saucers Cafe, where the dedicated team of individuals with learning difficulties not only served delicious snacks, had given a great deal towards this huge delivery of humanitarian aid. From the quilts and knitwork, to food products, medications, sanitary items, and hygiene supplies, when they opened the doors of the van that they hired themselves to make the delivery, it was like opening an Aladdin’s cave! It is people like Erica and John who demonstrate the essence of community, unity, and the extraordinary strength that emerges when we come together. It was aday that truly reinforced our faith in the goodness around. Thank you Erica, John, family, and your Birmingham supporters.

 

• ​​Newly updated NFFU leaflets have been distributed by volunteers into community mailboxes and inserted into 10,000 copies of the New Milton Advertiser and the Lymington Times​​

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