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News and updates about the 2025 Pakistan floods. What’s happening and how the Red Cross is supporting those affected.
Find out how humanitarian aid is getting into Gaza and how the Red Cross Red Crescent movement is trying to help more than 1.5million people at risk of famine.
The British Red Cross 'Here for Humanity' garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 will honour our volunteers and the communities they support through the beauty of nature.
Read the story of one mother, Ghada, who gave birth to her daughter at the Red Cross Field Hospital in Gaza and learn of the dangers her new-born baby faces.
We’re looking for people who can provide calm and reassuring help to people in crisis. Be there for people when they need us most by volunteering to take calls on our support line.
Five years after the Beirut explosion in 2020, we remember what happened and how the Red Cross responded to save lives.
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At a public meeting held in London on 4 August 1870, a resolution was passed that “a national society be formed in this country for aiding sick and wounded soldiers in times of war and that the said ...
Would you know what to do if someone was having a heart attack? Tim Connor did, thanks to a British Red Cross first aid course which is why his colleague Tony Wong is still alive and well today.
Press release announcing findings of British Red Cross report that project more than 50,000 refugees could be made homeless by the end of 2023.
Read the latest news and updates about the devastating Myanmar earthquake 2025, which has killed over 100 people, including how the Red Cross is responding.
People seeking asylum in England are at risk of missing out on basic healthcare services because they have limited access to the internet and digital tools, the British Red Cross warns.