Chorleywood Aid for Ukraine
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 as at 30th June 2023:
Raised £40,000.
Sent 13 shipments via Kent of around 800 kgs or just under 1 ton each, 80-120 bags per shipment, of donated clothing, shoes, & bedding, plus purchased & requested medical, food, hygiene, & baby items.
Supplied in large volume underwear & t-shirts for Kyiv Military Hospital, plus a TV and washing machine for the injured soldiers.
Financed mattresses, quilts, pillows, pictures, games, & cuddly toys for 56 orphans aged 5 to 16 who arrived Kyiv October 23rd, 2022, from Bakhmut & Mariupol, who had lost everything: parents, home, school, city. Please see our picture galleries re Recipients. The orphans have the green & yellow bean bags alongside our new mattresses etc.
Financed cooking stoves & winter warm sleeping bags in December 2022 as requested by our charity contact in Brovary (a satellite city NE of Kyiv).
KentRelief
UK registered charity
We are extremely proud of:
We deal with a registered charity in Brovary, nr Kyiv.
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 KentRelief in Tunbridge Wells, average cost per shipment is £500 shipping, £100 bags, £1,400 medical, hygiene, food & baby items as requested. Total £2,000 per shipment.
We are very low overhead. About to file our first-year annual registered charity accounts.
All our aid gets to the far end untampered, & bags are numbered.
We provide pictorial evidence of the new owners of your donated goods, & pics of how your money is spent.
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.
Pierre Bosdet, Taisiia Rantiuk, Gagan Mohindra MP, Ukrainian guest, Lesley Gray
Chorleywood Aid being delivered to Eastern Ukraine, Donbas Region