Stories
Learn more about our work and impact across the UK and around the world.
Disasters and emergencies
What's happening in Gaza?
Find out the latest information on the ground in Gaza.
Red Cross responds to vast medical needs in Rafah
Find out how we're helping people at the Rafah field hospital in Gaza.
Ukraine crisis three years on
How the Red Cross has been helping people affected by the crisis in Ukraine, since the start of the conflict in February 2022.
Migration and displacement
A family reunion five years in the making
After he left Afghanistan for the UK, Kai’s search for his parents took him from childhood to adulthood.
Six myth-busting facts about refugees
How good is your knowledge of the reality for asylum seekers?
Our programme supporting refugee women and girls in East Sudan
Over the past decade, thousands of migrants and refugees have travelled through Sudan
Our movement
Gifts that do good
British Red Cross shops are treasure troves for gifts this Christmas
5 ways to make a difference this January
Beat the New Year blues by getting involved with the British Red Cross
Testament of Youth: a volunteer’s WWI memoir of a lost generation
Poet and pacifist Vera Brittain was a Red Cross nurse during the First World War. Here, we share her most famous work ‘A Testament of Youth’.
Health and social care
Why does the Red Cross provide wheelchairs?
The Red Cross believes that everybody who needs a mobility aid, including a wheelchair, should be able to get one, for as long as they need it.
Real-life first aid stories, where ordinary items saved the day
Did you know that you can give first aid using everyday items? Read these real-life first aid stories, and learn how objects around you could help in a first aid emergency.
Health
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