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Support New Forest for Ukraine this winter. Help us raise £28,000 to send 8 lorries of vital humanitarian aid to Ukraine before Christmas
THREE JOURNEYS OF HOPE COMPLETED – FIVE MORE TO GO!
OUR FUNDRAISING PROGRESS
3 OUT OF 8 LORRIES FUNDED!
🚛 Journey 1 – FUNDED
🚛 Journey 2 – FUNDED
🚛 Journey 3 – FUNDED
🚛 Journey 4 – PARTIALLY FUNDED
🚛 Journey 5 – Still to fund
🚛 Journey 6 – Still to fund
🚛 Journey 7 – Still to fund
🚛 Journey 8 – Still to fund
Our original fundraising target: £28,000
Raised: £12,000 (including Crowdfunder, direct BACS donations and Gift Aid)
Remaining against original target: £16,000
Every donation helps get another articulated lorry on the road, carrying 52 pallets of essential humanitarian aid from the New Forest to Ukraine.
Every Mile Delivers Hope. Every Journey Makes a Difference.
CAN YOU HELP US COMPLETE THE NEXT FIVE JOURNEYS?
Winter is coming, and people across Ukraine are facing another harsh and uncertain winter.
Imagine waking up to temperatures of -27°C.
Now imagine there is:
No electricity. No heating. No hot water. No way to charge your phone.
The shops and petrol stations you depend on may have been damaged or forced to close. Food and essential supplies can become harder to access. And outside, drones and missiles are still overhead.
This is the reality facing civilians across Ukraine.
Repeated attacks on energy infrastructure leave millions of people without reliable electricity, heating and water. In some areas, people are left with electricity for only a few hours a day.
As winter approaches, the situation remains desperately difficult.
Continued attacks on critical infrastructure are leaving civilians increasingly vulnerable as temperatures fall.
For people living near the front line, for elderly and vulnerable people, for families and for those who have already lost so much, winter is not simply uncomfortable. It can be life-threatening.
WHO WE ARE
New Forest for Ukraine is an entirely volunteer-run humanitarian charity, bringing together people, businesses, schools, churches and community groups across the New Forest and beyond to support people affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine.
We started in the first week of the war, and our commitment to supporting the people of Ukraine has never changed.
Our location may change, but our mission won't.
WHAT WE DO
Our volunteers collect, sort and prepare essential humanitarian aid, working with 10 trusted partner groups across Ukraine who tell us what their communities need most urgently.
We take our direction from our Ukrainian partners, ensuring that the aid we send is what they actually need, rather than simply what we have available.
Each lorry carries practical support such as:
These donations reach families, elderly and vulnerable people, displaced communities, hospitals, care homes, rehabilitation centres, schools and community organisations.
Our aim is simple: to get the right aid to the right people at the right time.
WHERE YOUR DONATION GOES
Every penny raised through this appeal will help fund the transportation of humanitarian aid from the New Forest to Ukraine and the onward distribution of aid within Ukraine.
The cost of transporting an articulated lorry is approximately £3,500, with each lorry carrying 52 pallets of essential supplies.
The challenges don't end when the lorries reach Ukraine. Changes to Nova Poshta's humanitarian delivery arrangements have reduced the availability of free delivery vouchers for volunteer groups and charities. This means our Ukrainian partners increasingly face the additional cost of getting aid from main distribution points, often Kharkiv, out to the communities who need it.
Your support therefore helps us overcome both the cost of getting aid into Ukraine and the challenge of getting it to the people who need it most.
Your donation helps turn the supplies our volunteers and local community collect into practical support for people facing another difficult winter.
EVERY DONATION MAKES A DIFFERENCE
We have already funded three journeys. Now we need your help to fund the remaining five.
Whether you can donate £5, £25, £50 or more, every contribution brings us closer to getting another lorry on the road.
Five more lorries. Five more journeys of hope. Thousands of people who need to know they have not been forgotten.
Please donate today and help us keep vital humanitarian aid moving.
Together, we can make a difference.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY TO THEIRS.
WE DELIVER A FUTURE OF HOPE. 💙💛
TESTIMONIALS
We have received many heartfelt messages of thanks from the people and communities we support. These messages remind us why we keep going and how much the support from our New Forest community means to those receiving it.
You can see more testimonials and photographs on our Facebook page, but here are just two:
From Maria at AKCF
"When people receive your support, tears well up in their eyes—tears born not only of the pain they have endured but also of the realization that there are caring hearts who remember them, extend a helping hand, and offer hope for the future.
We wish to express special thanks for the soap provided for our indomitable Defenders and for those displaced by the war."
Full story:
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122325875228026873&set=pcb.122325875636026873&locale=en_GB
From H.U.G.S in Kharkiv
"We want to send a massive thank you to the incredible team at New Forest for Ukraine!
Here in Kharkiv, Ukraine we see first hand the incredible impact of their dedication. They do truly amazing work, consistently sending us the highest quality humanitarian aid exactly when we need it most."
Full story:
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10168764714342837&set=pcb.1445361417503056&locale=en_GB
PLEASE HELP US KEEP HOPE MOVING.
Three journeys funded. Five more to go.
Together, we can deliver a future of hope.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 3rd December 2026 at 3:31pm