 |
|
|
|
New emergency support unit for Berkshire |
| (15 December 2008) |
|
| A new vehicle funded by the Brit Insurance Charitable Trust was handed over this morning to the Red Cross in Berkshire. |
|
|
|
|
|
British Red Cross heritage goes on tour |
| (08 December 2008) |
|
| The British Red Cross museum has loaned out histrorical artifacts to the Wellcome Collection as part of its War and Medicine exhibition. |
|
|
|
|
|
Vital new project launched on World AIDS Day |
| (02 December 2008) |
|
| World AIDS Day saw the launch of the British Red Cross Awareness, Be Safe, Condoms (ABC) scheme at Lee Valley Youth Hostel. |
|
|
|
|
|
Elvis is in the building |
| (01 December 2008) |
|
| British Red Cross charity shops are getting "all shook up" selling a CD of Elvis covers recorded by Red Cross driver and musical maestro Michael Wood. |
|
|
|
|
|
Red Cross charity shop raises £16,000 in five hours |
| (27 November 2008) |
|
| The British Red Cross charity shop in Chelsea held a designer sale and raised £16,221 in just five hours. |
|
|
|
|
|
Elvis strikes gold for Red Cross |
| (24 November 2008) |
|
| Two hundred party-goers rubbed shoulders with Elvis at a glitzy Gala Ball, which raised over £25,000 in aid of the British Red Cross. |
|
|
|
|
|
Frindsbury households helped during power cut |
| (14 November 2008) |
|
| Red Cross volunteers were able to provide help and advice to 12 households in Frindsbury, Rochester, after power cuts hit. |
|
|
|
%20100.jpg "Red Cross volunteer offers support")
|
|
Volunteers help during 27 hour power cut |
| (03 November 2008) |
|
| Local Red Cross volunteers provided vital support to a block of flats left without power in the town of Hadleigh, Suffolk. |
|
|
|
|
|
Partnership award for vital Surrey service |
| (23 October 2008) |
|
| The high sheriff of Surrey presented the Surrey fire and rescue service 2008 Partnership Award to the British Red Cross fire and emergency support service. |
|
|
|
%20100.jpg "Fire fighter and Red Cross volunteer")
|
|
Volunteers help after flat fire rescue |
| (16 October 2008) |
|
| Volunteers were able to provide support and help to families including a young child after a blaze broke out at a block of flats in Worthing. |
|
|
|
%20100.jpg "Red Cross volunteer and a police officer")
|
|
Kent police commend Red Cross |
| (14 October 2008) |
|
| Chief constable Michael Fuller awarded the Chief Constable's Certificate 2008 to the British Red Cross for its outstanding contribution. |
|
|
|
%20100.jpg "Fire fighters and volunteer")
|
|
Volunteers help Barnet blaze victims |
| (06 October 2008) |
|
| Five residents of a care home in Barnet, North London were helped by British Red Cross volunteers after a fire broke out in the home over the weekend. |
|
|
|
|
|
Chemical disaster exercise tests response |
| (05 October 2008) |
|
| First aiders from the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance were on duty at a major chemical explosion exercise at an imaginary pop concert in Hampshire. |
|
|
|
|
|
Caribbean groove helps hurricane victims |
| (05 October 2008) |
|
| A rainbow of colour and shower of groovy Caribbean beats drew hundreds of people to a fundraising party in aid of Caribbean hurricane victims. |
|
|
|
|
|
Wok a success |
| (03 October 2008) |
|
| The Wok Inn near Lewes has raised over £2,000 for the British Red Cross China Earthquake Appeal, as emergency teams continue to carry out vital recovery work. |
|
|
|
%20100.jpg "Sir Nicholas Young opens the Thetford office")
|
|
New Thetford office opens |
| (25 September 2008) |
|
| British Red Cross chief executive Sir Nicholas Young opened the new office in Thetford in front of volunteers, staff and partners. |
|
|
|
|
|
Free falling daredevils raise thousands |
| (20 September 2008) |
|
| Ten daredevils have raised over £4,500 for the British Red Cross in Bedfordshire by taking part in a sponsored parachute jump. |
|
|
|
|
|
Air ambulance partnership launched in Kent |
| (15 September 2008) |
|
| The British Red Cross and Kent Air Ambulance have joined forces to help people involved in serious medical traumas. |
|
|
|
|
|
Lawrie McMenemy opens Romsey shop |
| (11 September 2008) |
|
| Local football legend Lawrie McMenemy MBE snipped the ribbon on a new British Red Cross charity shop in Romsey. |
|
|
|
|
|
Heading for the Caribbean disaster zone |
| (05 September 2008) |
|
| Disaster management expert Patricia Dillon, from North London, will be heading out to the Caribbean as part of the British Red Cross emergency response unit. |
|
|
|
|
|
Volunteers help women and children in need |
| (05 September 2008) |
|
| Hastings-based volunteers supported single mothers and their children as a power cut left a hostel without heat, light or cooking facilities for 18 hours. |
|
|
|
|
|
Hundreds learn first aid at Clacton Airshow |
| (22 August 2008) |
|
| British Red Cross volunteers demonstrated first aid skills to hundreds of people at the 2008 Clacton Airshow as the Red Arrows flew overhead. |
|
|
|
|
|
Charity shop volunteer gets that feel-good factor |
| (12 August 2008) |
|
| When Sally was looking for a chance to give something back to the local community, she found it at the British Red Cross charity shop in Woodbridge. |
|
|
|
|
|
Zara Phillips portrait promotes the Red Cross |
| (08 August 2008) |
|
| A photographic portrait of Zarah Phillips by British artist Alastair Thain featured at an exhibition at the London's Royal Geopraphic Society, in aid of the British Red Cross. |
|
|
|
|
|
Suffolk fire leaves 3,800 without power |
| (01 August 2008) |
|
| British Red Cross volunteers were called out to provide practical and emotional support to 3,800 people left without power after a fire in Bungay, Suffolk. |
|
|
|
|
|
Volunteers called out to west London hostel fire |
| (29 July 2008) |
|
| Five British Red Cross volunteers were called out after a fire broke out in a hostel in Shepherds Bush Road, west London. |
|
|
|
|
|
Norwich-based delegate returns from Myanmar |
| (22 July 2008) |
|
| British Red Cross delegate Rod Stone is back home in Norwich following his deployment to support the charity’s relief efforts following Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma). |
|
|
|
|
|
Woking volunteer meets HRH the Prince of Wales |
| (09 July 2008) |
|
| Mick Bullen, a Red Cross volunteer from Woking, was introduced to HRH the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. |
|
|
|
|
|
Major exercise tests emergency response |
| (26 June 2008) |
|
| British Red Cross staff and volunteers took part in execise 'Norsk Viking' as Stansted airport authorities tested their emergency response. |
|
|
|
|
|
Volunteers help during Merton block fire |
| (24 June 2008) |
|
| A fire in a Merton residential block left 12 families temporarily homeless. British Red Cross volunteers were on hand to support them. |
|
|
|
|
|
At the races at Royal Ascot |
| (21 June 2008) |
|
| Fifty British Red Cross staff and volunteers provided first aid support at Royal Ascot, possibly the best known race meet in the world. |
|
|
|
|
|
Hackney volunteer Zarah bound for China earthquake zone |
| (29 May 2008) |
|
| Zarah Ali, a British Red Cross volunteer from Hackney, London, will be part of a team going to help in the China earthquake zone. |
|
|
|
|
|
Volunteers to the rescue as local family loses their home |
| (25 May 2008) |
|
| Volunteers from the British Red Cross East Anglia fire and emergency support service helped a local family whose house was gutted by fire. |
|
|
|
|
|
Fire and emergency support service celebrates five years in Surrey |
| (08 May 2008) |
|
| The British Red Cross fire and emergency support service celebrated five years of operations supporting Surrey fire and rescue service on 2 May 2008. |
|
|
|
|
|
Volunteers respond to Felixstowe seafront bomb threat |
| (21 April 2008) |
|
| British Red Cross volunteers provided ambulance support requested by the East of England Ambulance Service in the multi-agency response to an unexploded bomb, which was discovered on the seafront in Felixstowe, Suffolk. |
|
|
|
|
|
Hampshire volunteers meet the Duke of Gloucester |
| (04 April 2008) |
|
| Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester found out about the fire and emergency support service offered by the Red Cross at the opening of Hampshire fire and rescue's new fleet maintenance centre. |
|
|
|
