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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.

The British Red Cross is a humanitarian charity providing aid, emergency support, and help to communities in need across the UK and the world. Learn more.

Sir John Furley was one of the first in Britain to recognise the value of the Red Cross movement, and in fact had helped convince Robert Loyd-Lindsay to write that initial letter to The Times. He was ...

Five years after the Beirut explosion in 2020, we remember what happened and how the Red Cross responded to save lives.

In June 2025 the conflict in Gaza escalated with a surge in mass casualty incidents linked to the opening of new aid ...

Amr Ali, his wife and children, 7-year-old Adam and 3-year-old Maria, have been displaced five times since hostilities ...

Gaza faces a malnutrition crisis, with nearly half a million people - many of them children - at risk of starvation with hospitals overwhelmed. Learn more.

It is only by keeping in touch with our supporters that we can achieve what we do, whether during emergencies or day to day. We try to do this in a number of ways, by sending letters of appeal, ...

Geography teaching package with resources exploring the impact of earthquakes and natural disasters on the earth and people.

Responding to the announcement of a deal between the UK and France on migration, Alex Fraser, Director of Refugee Services for the British Red Cross, said: “Today’s announcement has the potential to ...