Crisis relief

Crisis relief.

His Church are uniquely positioned to provide immediate crisis relief, in that we run a 24/7 operation, with a full transport and logistics infrastructure and have a wide variety of resources for humanitarian aid at any given time.

Since 2003, His Church have won several awards for our crisis intervention, including responses to flooding in the UK, Ebola in West Africa, Covid in the UK and most recently winning the Third Sector Charity Partnership of the Year Award for our combined response to the Karamanmaras Earthquake Disaster in Turkey / Syria.

Countries That We Have Supported With Humanitarian Aid

We've supplied aid to 37 countries

The key to our effectiveness as an early responder to crises is the significant volume and diverse range of products for which we provide regular solutions. This, coupled with our full transport and logistics infrastructure, means we are able to quickly gather and mobilise consignments of humanitarian aid including food, clothing, personal hygiene products, sanitary items, medical supplies and sleeping bags.

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COVID-19

At the point the UK went into the first lockdown in March 2020, His Church had completed a (3 week) stock check of Hangar 3 and recorded an estimated 1.5 million meals in stock. His Church were inundated with requests for food from a huge network of charitable organisations in the UK and 1.5 million meals had been distributed within the first 6 weeks of lockdown. At the same time there was an enormous amount of food trapped within the supply chain of major restaurants and retail outlets such as McDonald’s, Costa, Pret-a-Manger, Whitbread etc for which His Church were simultaneously providing solutions.

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His Church provided food support for thousands of charitable organisations helping people who were struggling to access food due to Covid, as well as schools, hospitals, local authorities, and football clubs all starting emergency food outreaches to their communities.

His Church also supported over 10,000 healthcare professionals who were unable to buy fresh fruit and vegetables due to widespread panic buying at the start of the pandemic. Later, in the summer, His Church began a project called “rehydrate the NHS” providing drinks to hospitals as the warmer weather meant NHS staff working long hours in extensive PPE were dehydrating.

In the 3 years from March 2020 that the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 was a Global Health Emergency, His Church distributed over 20 million meals to people made vulnerable by the pandemic. Our Charity President was awarded an MBE for “Food Services to the UK during Covid” for this work in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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Ukraine

In response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict in Ukraine on 1st March 2022 His Church launched “Operation Manna 2022”. The project name was inspired by the original Operation Manna, which took place in 1945 from several RAF bases in Lincolnshire, including RAF Binbrook, now the home of His Church.

In the original Operation Manna food was dropped from Lancaster Bombers to the starving people of Holland under German occupation and at risk of starvation. Operation Manna 2022 was not an airborne mission, but was aimed at getting essential provision to the people of Ukraine suffering a similar situation due to war.

Our food manufacturing partners donated food specifically to meet the needs of those either migrating or without adequate cooking facilities due to the destruction of their local infrastructure. These donations included ambient ready meals, tinned produce, precooked rice and ration packs.

We also put out an appeal for the specific items that were needed including food, pet food, medical supplies, personal hygiene products, sanitary items, torches / batteries and toys. Local businesses and military bases became collection points, there was even a collection organised by Stoke City Football Club at a home game.

As well as delivering food and supplies directly into Ukraine, His Church supported a number of other charitable organisations who have distribution networks in Ukraine and in the surrounding countries, who were inundated with refugees. Within the first year of the conflict His Church had distributed over 1.3 million meals and over 50 pallets of essential supplies through Operation Manna 2022.

Turkey & Syria Earthquake Disaster

On 6 February 2023, Eastern Turkey and Northern Syrian were hit by the most powerful earthquake in the region for over 80 years. It was quickly followed by a further earthquake and hundreds of aftershocks. By the end of February 59,000 deaths were confirmed and an estimated 14 million people were affected by widespread damage, in an area the size of Germany.

The catastrophic earthquakes meant that whole communities were facing sub-zero temperatures with only makeshift shelters and there was a pressing need for sleeping bags. Arsenal Football Club contacted long term partner His Church who provide solutions for sleeping bags which have been used once at festivals with partner Tangerine Fields. The sleeping bags are washed and baled ready for distribution in support of homeless people, refugees or victims of natural disaster.

In partnership with The Arsenal Foundation, The Turkish Cypriot Community Association, The Cyprus Islamic Association and The Turkish Police Association, His Church washed, baled, and delivered 1,500 sleeping bags to Heathrow Airport which were flown to Turkey and distributed within one week of Arsenal’s initial request. This multi faith, multi-agency initiative has won the prestigious Third Sector Awards "Charity Partnership of the Year 2023".

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