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.

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

Support people in your community when they need it most. 
Join the British Red Cross as a health and care volunteer today and make a real difference to someones life.

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.

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

Find out how 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.

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 ...

Advice for protecting your health from excessive heat for people travelling to Europe and other parts of the world at risk of excessive heat this summer.

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.