Run 06 – 21st June 2022

This will be a milestone run as it is the first time that we go with an additional van and with that, our capacity has now doubled! Huge thanks to Mike and Karl who prepared Andy’s new van for its maiden run into Ukraine! We will update this post as the run gets underway! Between…

No sooner has one run finished, we are already planning for Run 19! And this will be a run with a difference! Andy will be delivering aid to a hospital in Lviv on behalf of the East Sussex Ukraine support group led by Valentyna Skoromets, Oksana Tidman and Maria Savinova. This includes a number of…

Documentation for the new customs process, submitted, van loaded with the final pick up in Weeze happening on the way and Run 23 was underway! Huge thanks to all who donated aid: members and friends of Brighton & Hove City Brass, Uckfield Concert Brass, Lewes, Glynde and Beddingham Brass Band – LGB Brass, Sussex Symphony…

Meet your drivers for this run: Mike & Guy! After a delay at the border, they finally made it through to Ukraine! How better to describe run no.4 than to use the words of Anna Pukas James, a great supporter of ours, who accompanied Mike and Guy on this trip to Lviv: What a remarkable,…

And so it began! Run no. 1 and a first outing for “Renee” the van! First stop was to meet the folks at BAMK who were providing aid to go in the van. In the early days, we went via Dover – something that has changed since then. (We now mainly use Harwich to Hook…

No sooner is one run over than we prepared for the next one! Run 21 was a solo run with Andy’s van to Kyiv. Andy’s had just over 1 tonne on board! Special thanks to Dee Johnson at Thornbury Nursing Home in Uckfield, Ray Martin from Uckfield Concert Brass. Carrie & Jim in Ringmer. the…