CALAIS LIGHT

We are a volunteer-led organisation that supports refugees & asylum seekers in the UK & N. France. We have 3 arms.  Our core activity is to relieve the needs of refugees in N. France by organizing regular weekend-only convoys, taking ordinary people from around the UK to volunteer with refugee NGOs there.  We have run 23 weekend convoys over the last 7 years since launch of up to 50 volunteers a time. We book everything for our volunteers, making it easy for them to say yes, especially if they lack time, a car, can't drive, speak French or are too nervous to do this type of volunteering alone.  In the UK we operate #courtcommerce, a unique initiative which sources mass donations from world-class brands (e.g. Unilever, Puma) of brand-new, rather than second-hand, high-quality, stylish & perfectly-sized clothes for refugees in bridging hotels & dispersal accommodation. We also operate Calais Light-UK, a group of Active Refugee Befriending Volunteers