News and updates about the 2025 Pakistan floods. What’s happening and how the Red Cross is supporting those affected.

The smallpox vaccine led to the development of many more life-saving vaccines. Diphtheria is now rare in the UK because of vaccination programmes that began in 1940 when the death rate from diphtheria ...

Find out what help you can get from the British Red Cross as a refugee, asylum seeker or vulnerable migrant in the UK.

Find out how humanitarian 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.

Explore all British Red Cross free teaching resources on humanitarianism for primary and secondary learners. Engaging lessons for a productive classroom.

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.

Read the story of one mother, Ghada, who gave birth to her daughter at the Red Cross Field Hospital in Gaza and learn of the dangers her new-born baby faces.

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.