Gaza. Ukraine. Sudan. The heartbreaking headlines do not stop but neither do we.
In the UK and around the world – through conflict, flooding, food shortages and fires – families and communities are facing unimaginable hardship. No matter how difficult or dangerous things get, you can help our teams be ready to respond, bringing comfort and essential supplies when hope and humanity feel lost.
Your gift today will bring hope to people in crisis when they need it most.
Help people in need with a monthly gift today.
Why give a monthly gift?
When you give monthly, you become a reliable source of hope for people facing their hardest moments. Your ongoing support helps us respond to emergencies, be ready when disaster strikes, and build strong, resilient communities in the UK and around the world.
Knowing we can count on your generosity every month allows us to plan ahead, reach more people, and offer lasting help, to everyone who needs it, no matter who or where they are. And because you can change your gift at any time, monthly giving is a simple, flexible way to make a real difference, all year round.
Set up your regular gift today.
How your gift can help
Our teams in the UK and around the world are on the ground helping people in crisis. Your gift will help us provide:
- food, clean water, shelter and clothing in an emergency
- emergency response services
- refugee support services
- support to victims of modern slavery and trafficking
- help to people looking for their missing family
If you're able to support people around the world with a monthly gift, every time you hear about our work you’ll know you’ve played a part in helping people through some of the hardest times in their lives.
- £8 could provide mosquito nets to a family in Nigeria to protect them from waterborne diseases like malaria or dengue fever.
- £12 could buy a hygiene pack for a refugee or person seeking asylum in the UK, giving them access to some of the basics no one should go without.
- £20 could give a parent in the UK the essential items they need to care for a newborn baby, when they have lost everything in a flood.
- £56 could help provide a family of five with a month's worth of essential food supplies.
- £72 could help pay for the distribution of a water filtration system so that 4 households in Bangladesh have access to clean water.
Set up a monthly gift to the British Red Cross now.
Giving to other British Red Cross appeals
You can also give to appeals that help people specifically affected by emergencies in: