{"id":732351,"date":"2026-08-09T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732351\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:24:12","slug":"migrant-crisis-british-charity-hands-staggering-amount-of-freebies-to-would-be-illegal-migrants-assembling-on-french-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732351\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant crisis: British ‘charity’ hands staggering amount of freebies to would-be illegal migrants assembling on French coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British “charity” has revealed the scale of its handouts to would-be migrants assembling on the French coast ready to illegally cross the Channel<\/a> to the UK.<\/p>\n

Care4Calais, the charity which calls for Britain to accept “refugees” and open the borders, has given hundreds of thousands of freebies to migrants in northern France.<\/p>\n

The handouts, branded “support for people on the move” by activists, include more than 2,000 free Sim cards, with six months of data preloaded through a deal between Vodafone and the charity.<\/p>\n

Care4Calais’s annual report boasts of 162,000 items handed out in the UK and France to nearly 30,000 illegal migrants.<\/p>\n

It details how volunteers have hand-delivered 2,221 Vodafone Sim cards, 3,765 hoodies, 3,532 pairs of joggers and 1,174 t shirts to ensure the migrants are clothed and can call and text.<\/p>\n

The charity has also given out 2,770 “snug packs” featuring hats, neck-warmers and gloves so they can keep warm, and 1,169 weatherproof garments – which will likely protect against the sea spray in the Channel.<\/p>\n

The giveaways also include 1,173 “Ramadan food packs”, which form part of the 116,000 items dished out in Calais alone.<\/p>\n

One beleaguered Frenchman told the Mail earlier this year that Muslim migrants were coming to Calais from all over France to get their hands on the Ramadan meals.<\/p>\n

“They are being enticed here,” he said. “The numbers waiting to cross the Channel to get to the UK are growing because of these meals.”<\/p>\n

Care4Calais also recorded 25,807 unique instances of an individual accessing their services.<\/p>\n

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PICTURED: A Care4Calais worker stacks up boxes of freebies ready to hand to would-be migrants in France<\/p>\n

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It dishes out 3,367 free haircuts, 13,554 phone charging services, 7,124 English lessons, 467 sewing repairs and 1,295 bike repairs.<\/p>\n

Though it remains unclear whether a prospective migrant has ever brought a bike with them to Britain.<\/p>\n

At British military bases housing illegal migrants, Care4Calais ran 80 “drop-in sessions”<\/a>, 17 large-scale handouts and gave out over 23,000 freebies.<\/p>\n

It also provided “new arrival packs” to welcome 1,800 migrants to the South Coast.<\/p>\n

“These people are being assisted every inch of the way into our country,” former Scotland Yard detective Peter Bleksley told GB News.<\/p>\n

“Onto our shores where there is more division. More anger. More frustration. People go into the streets. I’m surprised that it was only Thetford this week.”<\/p>\n

READ MORE ON THE MIGRANT CRISIS:<\/p>\n

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The charity dished out 116,000 items to migrants in Calais alone<\/p>\n

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Former Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell admitted “an awful lot” of the charity’s activists “are naive idealists who think they are doing good”.<\/p>\n

“If you provide support in the camps in Calais, you are encouraging people to come to this country, regardless of the legitimacy of their asylum claim.<\/p>\n

“That’s not good. It’s not supported by the public and it’s not sustainable,” he added.<\/p>\n

The handouts come as around 13.4 million people – the poorest fifth of the population – live in relative poverty in the UK after accounting for housing costs.<\/p>\n

This includes four million children and 1.7 million pensioners, defined as living in households with incomes below 60 per cent of the median average.<\/p>\n

Mr Bleksley added that he was far more concerned about “Care4Crayford, Care4Cumbria or Care4Cumberland” than Care4Calais as a result.<\/p>\n

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‘These people are being assisted every inch of the way into our country,’ former Scotland Yard detective Peter Bleksley told GB News<\/p>\n

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The charity’s handouts figures emerged mere hours after GB News confirmed hundreds of illegal immigrants crossed the English Channel on Saturday<\/a> after weather conditions improved overnight.<\/p>\n

The Shadow Home Secretary said just days ago the only reason the number of arrivals had decreased recently was the size of the waves between Britain and France.<\/p>\n

One migrant dinghy made it across the Channel undetected yesterday morning until it was just a couple of miles from the Kent coast.<\/p>\n

That took the total number of illegal arrivals so far this year to more than 14,500.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s crossings also took the total number of arrivals under Andy Burnham to more than 2,300.<\/p>\n

GB News has approached Care4Calais and Vodafone for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British “charity” has revealed the scale of its handouts to would-be migrants assembling on the French coast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[819,59,57,58,285,50,56,54,55,231],"class_list":["post-732351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-france","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}