From Uttoxeter to Ukraine: how we’re trying to help

A Longstanding Connection with Eastern Europe

The CTR Group’s relationship with Eastern Europe has grown over the years, not just as trading partners but in the growing workforce employed both here in the U.K and in mainland Europe. Many of our staff have family and friends caught up in the Ukrainian conflict currently taking place.

Turning Logistics into Lifelines

Wanting to help in some way, we have taken the initiative to utilise our workforce and logistics capability by collating much-needed donations from colleagues, working partners and the broader community. Our lorries are currently leaving for the German/Polish border.

We are undertaking a determined and sustained effort to get supplies safely to those who need it most. We are perfectly placed to fulfil weekly deliveries, so we are doing what we do best; collecting, sorting and delivering. And trying to make a difference, however small.

Taking Responsibility for Textile Waste

Some donations will stay within Poland to help those who have already crossed the border, and the rest will head into the Ukraine. Donations have been flooding in, from the local community and our charity partners and retailers. We will be taking lorries over each week for as long as they are needed.

To get the donations processed and onto the lorries as quickly as possible, many of our staff have been working out of hours and at weekends, with family members and friends joining them to keep on top of the donations.

Specifically we are looking to contribute brand new items that the Polish Red Cross have advised are in urgent need.