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Learn more about our work and impact across the UK and around the world.
Disasters and emergencies
What's happening in Gaza?
Learn what’s happening on the ground, how the Red Cross and Red Crescent are responding, and what you can do to help.
"A wonderful and beautiful feeling”: celebrating the World Cup in Gaza
The Palestine Red Crescent Society programme bringing joy to children in Gaza through football.
What's happening in Nepal?
The latest news on the deadly flash floods in Nepal
Migration and displacement
A family reunion five years in the making
After he left Afghanistan for the UK, Kai’s search for his parents took him from childhood to adulthood.
Six myth-busting facts about refugees
How good is your knowledge of the reality for asylum seekers?
Our programme supporting refugee women and girls in East Sudan
Over the past decade, thousands of migrants and refugees have travelled through Sudan
Our movement
Charlie Mackesy designs exclusive T-shirt
Best-selling illustrator and author creates exclusive 'Here for humanity' T-shirt. Find out more about the collaboration.
Gifts that do good
British Red Cross shops are treasure troves for gifts this Christmas
Testament of Youth: a volunteer’s WWI memoir of a lost generation
Poet and pacifist Vera Brittain was a Red Cross nurse during the First World War. Here, we share her most famous work ‘A Testament of Youth’.
Health and social care
Why does the Red Cross provide wheelchairs?
The Red Cross believes that everybody who needs a mobility aid, including a wheelchair, should be able to get one, for as long as they need it.
Real-life first aid stories, where ordinary items saved the day
Did you know that you can give first aid using everyday items? Read these real-life first aid stories, and learn how objects around you could help in a first aid emergency.
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Ebola outbreak Democratic Republic of Congo
101 deaths and 550 confirmed cases in the DR Congo Ebola outbreak. Learn more about the crisis and the Red Cross response.
Middle East Crisis 2026
Learn more about the Red Cross Red Crescent's response to the unfolding crisis in the Middle East
What's happening in Gaza?
Get the latest updates on the Gaza humanitarian crisis and learn how the Red Cross and Red Crescent are providing critical aid to people affected.
How is aid getting into Gaza?
With an IPC-classified famine declared in parts of Gaza, unimpeded humanitarian aid access is desperately needed. But how will it get delivered?
What is happening in Sudan?
Read the latest updates on the current situation in Sudan where 25 million people are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance and aid.
Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa: the most powerful storm of 2025
Why does the Red Cross provide wheelchairs?
Learn about the history of the British Red Cross' wheelchair hire service and how we became the go-to organisation for short-term wheelchair hire across the UK.
UK first aid confidence
Is confidence stopping people using First Aid skills? We go behind the stats to understand why more people aren’t using their life saving skills.
Climate change in Nepal
Find out why Nepal is so vulnerable to climate change and how the British Red Cross is supporting communities prepare and respond to its effects
Beyond the statistics: the people and communities affected by the Nepal flash floods and landslide
Before Nepal's flash floods made global headlines, communities were living everyday lives. A personal reflection on the people behind the tragedy.
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