No Duff pairs with Ukrainian Veterans Hub to offer vital support

Based at the Wonderland Community Centre close to St Helens town centre, No Duff offers a support network for veterans and ex-service members with mental health issues.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, the community organisation has been delivering essential supplies into the war-torn country to do what they can to support refugees.

Dean Owen delivering aid to Ukraine for No Duff (Image: No Duff)

The group has also organised coffee mornings to offer support to Ukranian refugees and help them settle into the community.

Through these contacts, No Duff has made a partnership with a Veteran's Hub inside Kyiv.

Set up to offer support to veterans and the armed forces inside Ukraine, the partnership will also help ensure that future supplies are directed to those who need it most inside the country.

No Duff have been organising coffee mornings for Ukrainian refugees (Image: No Duff)

With plans to pay the Veteran's Hub a visit in person, No Duff is currently looking for donations to fund their next trip to deliver essential supplies into Ukraine.

An ambulance was delivered to the group this week which, once roadworthy, will be driven to a designated hospital in Ukraine to deliver supplies of medical aid.

The donated ambulance which is planned to take medical supplies into Ukraine (Image: No Duff)

Dean Owen, founder of No Duff, said: "Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, No Duff UK has been at the forefront of delivering much-needed medical and humanitarian aid into the country.

"This next mission is slightly different from the ones we have already done, which is to get an ambulance across and delivered to a hospital in the south of Ukraine.

"Along the way, we will drop supplies off to those we have supported on previous missions.

"Innocent people caught up in this invasion are dying due to a lack of medical aid and ambulances being unavailable because they are often targeted.

"We need your help getting the ambulance road-worthy, MOT, insured, taxed, looking like an ambulance, and fuel.

"One life lost is one too many."

No Duff are fundraising for their next trip to Ukraine (Image: No Duff)

To donate to No Duff's Ukraine fundraiser, visit this link.

To find out more about the group, visit their website here.