accessibility & help
04 Jan 2010
Wigan has celebrated two years of the Red Cross’ dawn patrol service, under which schoolchildren regularly look out for elderly people.
05 Jan 2010
As heavy snows fall, our emergency teams are working round the clock in hazardous conditions to help snowbound communities in Scotland.
14 Jan 2010
An outpouring of public generosity for people devastated by the Haiti quake has helped us raise £1 million for our appeal in 36 hours.
07 Jan 2010
Volunteers are braving the snow and ice to provide extra support for vulnerable people in Nottinghamshire.
We are supporting the East Midlands Ambulance Service with an unprecedented number of calls about weather-related injuries.
11 Jan 2010
Staff and volunteers have celebrated the re-launch of our disabled living centre and independent living shop in Leicester.
08 Jan 2010
Tens of thousands of people affected by floods in Kenya and Tanzania are receiving emergency relief from the Red Cross.
Volunteers in Hampshire leapt into action as their 1,000th call from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service came in.
13 Jan 2010
A devastating earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Haiti on 13 January 2010, killing thousands and affecting many more.
As the UK struggles with the worst snowfall in 30 years, our emergency teams are active across the country, including the A3 in Hampshire.
Our staff and volunteers are braving the snow and ice to give vulnerable people across Cheshire extra support as more cold weather hits.
As treacherous snow conditions persist, our volunteers and emergency vehicles are reaching vulnerable people in remote areas.
Temperatures across the UK plummeted again today – leaving hundreds of elderly and vulnerable people in need of support from our volunteers.
21 Jan 2010
Fundraisers are taking to the streets up and down the country to raise funds for the Disasters Emergency Committee Haiti Earthquake Appeal.
15 Jan 2010
In the Turks and Caicos Islands, hundreds of people affected by hurricanes in 2008 now have proper sanitation thanks to our recovery work.
We're teaching homeless people in Peterborough how to treat hypothermia and frostbite, in response to the recent sub-zero temperatures.
18 Jan 2010
Over the weekend, relief supplies and personnel continued to arrive in Haiti and the surrounding area.
The British Red Cross is sending an emergency hygiene team to Haiti, with urgently needed sanitation equipment for the hundreds of thousands of people.
22 Jan 2010
Two babies were born on 20 January at a Red Cross field hospital in Port-au-Prince, shortly after a magnitude 6 aftershock struck.
26 Jan 2010
Alastair Burnett, our recovery operations manager, explains the complexities of helping the people of Haiti get back on their feet.
George Osborne thanked Red Cross volunteers who braved the snow and ice to provide extra support for vulnerable people across Cheshire.
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