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Find out how aid is getting into Gaza and how the Red Cross Red Crescent movement is trying to help more than 1.5million people at risk of famine.
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Amina Hussein, a long-serving Operations Manager for the British Red Cross, has received the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of over 30 years of dedicated ...
A British Red Cross volunteer from Epsom who has spent 40 years with the organisation has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the King’s Birthday Honours.
Responding to the Government’s plans to end the use of hotels for people seeking asylum by the end of this Parliament, Mubeen Bhutta, Director of Policy for the British Red Cross, said: “Housing ...
Most of England has been issued an amber heat health alert with temperatures predicted to reach up to 33ºC over the weekend of June 20th 2025.
A British Red Cross volunteer who has spent almost three decades with the charity has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
A British Red Cross caseworker, who is thought to have helped reunite more than 1,450 people who have been separated from their loved ones, has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours.
How to talk to children and young people about conflict using an impartial and neutral humanitarian approach. Suitable for school-aged children, ages 5 to 19.