Pour a Cup of Kindness

By hosting a tea event, you’ll be raising vital funds to help us be there for people in crisis—both across the UK and around the world.

Pour a cup of kindness on 8 May to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of VE and World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day.

Get everything you need to make your event a success and request a pack below.

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Hosting your own tea event is easy

Hosting your own tea event is easy, and you can host at home, online or anywhere in your community. Here are some ideas to help you get started:

• Organise a tea or coffee morning at work or with your local group. 
• Organise a street party to celebrate VE Day
• Working from home? Organise an online get-together to reconnect over a cuppa. 
• Host a bake sale at school, college or university to help fuel your classmates through exam season. 
• Brighten rainy Sunday mornings on a sports match side-line with flasks and a Tupperware of treats. 
• Celebrate a birthday or anniversary by hosting an afternoon tea. 
• Plan a teddy bears picnic for the little ones.
• Invite your friends round for a catch-up over tea and cake. 

Why Your Support Matters 

Whether it’s the reassuring sounds of mugs and teaspoons clattering in the kitchen, a friend asking “how are you?” with cuppas in hand, or someone wrapping a cosy blanket around your shoulders, these moments of humanity help us feel that we are not alone. 

Every day, our teams are working to create these moments of humanity for people caught up in crisis in the UK and across the world. 

When emergencies strike and lives are turned upside down, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is there – from providing essentials for communities hit by flooding or earthquakes, to reuniting families who have been separated by conflict, to helping people home from hospital in the UK. We are a team of people helping people, and we know that moments of connection and humanity are a lifeline. 

By hosting your Pour a Cup of Kindness tea event on 8 May and raising funds for the British Red Cross, you’ll help make sure we can be here for humanity when someone needs us most.

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How your donation could help people in crisis: 

• £18 – could support a refugee or person seeking asylum at risk of homelessness to buy or cook their meals for a week. This means that as the cost-of-living rises, they can still sit down for a meal, bring people together around the dinner table and create a sense of home. 
• £54 – could buy emergency supplies, such as blankets, for 13 people in Syria who’ve been forced to flee their homes. 
• £75 – could allow us to keep 150 survivors of a building fire safe and warm, as we support them to find somewhere to stay for the night.  
• £100 – could provide a set of basic kitchen items to help someone start over again after losing everything in devastating floods.