International Glamping Business and The Glamping Show together with award-winning glamping site Camp Kátur are proud to announce – Glamp Aid – the glamping industry’s first charitable trust.
“Glamp Aid is an initiative designed to bring the glamping sector closer through fundraising for good causes,” says Kerry Roy, Founder of Camp Kátur and Glamp Aid trustee.
“As our industry grows and becomes more mature, we are looking for new ways to come together. We felt that fundraising would help us to unite with others we do business with, while supporting those less fortunate than ourselves,” adds Steph Curtis-Raleigh, Editor of International Glamping Business.
Aid Box Community
Glamp Aid has appointed its first charity – Aid Box Community (ABC), based in Bristol in the UK. The charity came about in September 2015 when founder Imogen McIntosh saw the shocking images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi – the Syrian toddler who was washed up on a Turkish shore.
Imogen and a small group of friends began mobilising their resources towards doing something to help. “We’d seen and read about the horrendous conditions in refugee camps in northern France and decided on a single mission – to deliver tents, sleeping bags and 300 aid boxes containing complete survival kits to a small, forgotten refugee camp in Dunkirk,” she says.
Since ABC began, it has mobilised over 300 volunteers from Bristol and the south of England. These kind-hearted people have given their time to either work on the camp or help with the collection and delivery of over 1000 aid boxes and hundreds of van loads of emergency aid to the camp.
ABC Current Projects
The Aid Box Community Hub is where the charity continues to collect, sort and deliver life-saving aid to send to displaced people in France and where they run a ‘Free Shop’ where destitute asylum seekers and refugees can access free goods such as toiletries, basic household items, clothes and food. ABC also helps British people on the streets and donates to Bristol’s homeless charities.
“Our next ambition is to move to bigger premises where we can support refuges and asylum seekers with their emotional needs, as well as their physical ones. We are really excited to be working with the Glamping industry in order to raise the funds that are so desperately needed by people who have literally nothing,” says Imogen.
How can we help?
- Glamping sites and glamping suppliers can help Glamp Aid/ABC in a number of ways. The first is through donation. You can donate via this page mydonate.bt.com/charities/aidboxcommunity
- Why not add a voluntary donation to each booking taken via your website – or add a collection tin to your reception? All companies who make a donation to Glamp Aid will be sent the logo to add to their website and social media as well as being named on the International Glamping Business website.
- Organise an event! Kerry and Steph will help with ideas, motivation and publicity. Let’s get behind this and make a real difference.
- Please donate any unwanted equipment! Tents, stoves, bedding – even accessories and decorative items are all badly needed. Please see the ABC website for a list of aid items most needed by ABC.
