Chorleywood Aid for Ukraine
Breaking News - click the button on the right to read about Pierre's trip to Kyiv to visit "From Dreams to Reality", the charity in Ukraine to which Chorleywood Aid for Ukraine has been delivering aid for over two years now.
Chorleywood Aid for Ukraine charity was started shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, becoming a UK registered charity on July 7th, 2022.
We collect both cash and goods (see our Donate & Needed pages), and assist genuine charitable operations near Kyiv, Ukraine, with an emphasis on special needs children, orphans, displaced mothers with children & babies, families who have lost fathers, military & other hospitals, and the genuinely very needy which includes previously occupied towns north of Brovary (see our Partners page), and poor schools up to the Belarus border. Now expanded to most areas of Eastern & Southern Ukraine.
We also help our local Chorleywood guests from Ukraine, mainly mothers with young children, alongside the Chorleywood 4 Ukraine charitable group, who provide assistance, to both hosts and guests, coordinated by Eileen and James Gardner (see our Hosting page).
We are a very low overhead charity and provide ongoing pictorial / photographic feedback from exactly where your aid money and goods end up (see our Galleries pages, especially Recipients).
We can assure you those in receipt are most grateful indeed & we hear this often.
1A Shire Lane (next to florist)
"From Dreams to Reality" charitable foundation
Accomplishments Feb 2022 to July 2024:
Raised £50,000.
Sent 17 shipments, the last 10 of them via Kent Relief, around 800 kgs or just under 1-ton each, of donated clothing, shoes, bedding, & soft toys, plus purchased medical, food, hygiene, & baby items as requested by our charity colleagues near Kyiv.
Supplied in large volume underwear & t-shirts for Kyiv Military Hospital, plus a TV and washing machine for the many injured soldiers in the early stages of the 2022 invasion.
Financed mattresses, quilts, pillows, pictures, games, & cuddly toys for fifty-six orphans aged 5 to 16 who arrived in Kyiv October 23rd, 2022, from Bakhmut & Mariupol, who had lost everything including parents, home, school, city. Please see our picture galleries re Recipients. The orphans have the green & yellow bean bags alongside our new mattresses.
Financed cooking stoves & winter warm sleeping bags in December 2022 as requested by our charity colleagues in Brovary, near Kyiv.
KentRelief
UK registered charity
We are extremely proud of:
Our colleagues in Brovary, near Kyiv, are a registered UA charity “From Dreams to Reality.”
Anastasia is a highly commended Ukraine charity founder for over 10 years.
We only send what they specifically request.
We continue to ship every 2-3 months.
Our aid goes via Kent Relief in Tunbridge Wells, & cost per shipment is £700 shipping, £100 bags, £100 incidentals including labelling, printing, fuel at far end, ie £8-900 per 1-ton quarterly shipment.
All our aid gets to the far end untampered, & our bags are all numbered & indexed.
Our Trustee Pierre visited Anastasia & her team at From Dreams to Reality, in Brovary & Kyiv, in June 2024.
Kent Relief have been featured on BBC News SE 3 times when loading articulated lorries at their Tunbridge Wells hub, & CAFU volunteer helpers have also featured.
Your donations of goods and funds to our charity are most gratefully received and Chorleywood has been quite remarkable in its overall support, including towards our Ukrainian guests. Thank you all most kindly.
Local Ukrainian Ladies Sorting & Packing Team
Pierre Bosdet, Taisiia Rantiuk, Gagan Mohindra MP, Ukrainian guest, Lesley Gray
Chorleywood Aid being delivered to Eastern Ukraine, Donbas Region