Help people in crisis and donate now: No matter how hard it gets this Christmas, we’ll never give up.
Whether it’s in the UK or abroad in Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan and Ukraine, it feels like the British Red Cross has never been needed more.
Through conflict, flooding or food shortages and fires, families and communities are facing unimaginable hardship. And winter only makes it harder. It would be easy to give in to despair. But we will never give up.
No matter how difficult or dangerous things get, the British Red Cross is ready to face these challenges, bringing comfort and aid when all hope and humanity feels lost.
But we depend on support for what we do – so please donate to our appeal this Christmas, if you can.
Why your donation to the British Red Cross matters
We are working tirelessly in the UK and abroad to provide vital support like shelter, food, water and medicine to people in desperate need.
But we can’t do it alone. These emergencies are becoming more severe by the hour as winter and cold weather sets in. We urgently need your help.
The best way to help the British Red Cross is by making an online donation today. Whatever you can give will help us be here for humanity – responding to emergencies, planning for future ones, and building strong, resilient communities in the UK and around the world.
So, if you can donate to our Christmas appeal, please don’t wait.
Help the British Red Cross' work with a donation today.
Why does the British Red Cross ask for monthly donations?
A regular monthly donation to the charity helps us plan our work, because it helps us know how much income we’ll have in the future. It also helps you to plan your giving and gives you the flexibility to change it at any time.
People need us right now, and we need you.
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How your charity donation to the British Red Cross can help
Our teams in the UK and around the world are on the ground helping people in crisis. Your donation will help us provide:
- food, clean water, shelter and clothing in an emergency
- emergency response services
- refugee support services
- support to victims of modern slavery and trafficking
- wheelchair services
- help finding missing family
If you're able to support the British Red Cross with a one-off or monthly donation, every time you hear about our work, you’ll know you’ve played a part in it.
- £5 could provide a community in Bangladesh with training on water sanitation and hygiene, helping people keep themselves healthy after a disaster.
- £12 could buy a hygiene pack for a refugee or person seeking asylum in the UK, giving them access to some of the basics no one should go without.
- £20 could give a parent in the UK the essential items they need to care for a newborn baby, when they have lost everything due to flooding.
- £50 could help a family in Nigeria prepare for when severe flooding hits again.
- £75 could keep 150 survivors of a fire at a block of flats in the UK warm, while we support them to find emergency accommodation for the night.
Donate to the British Red Cross now.
Donating to other Red Cross appeals
You can also donate to appeals that help people specifically affected by emergencies in Gaza, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ukraine, Yemen or Syria.
We refuse to ignore people in crisis. We help people cope with disasters, conflicts and personal crises in the UK and overseas.