Southeast care home operator Canford Healthcare has donated medical/care equipment and supplies to the Tunbridge Wells-based Ukrainian Relief Group (URG).

Donations of items no longer used have included 30 beds and other furniture, wheelchairs, hoists, support equipment, fire extinguishers, personal protective equipment, old bedding (including sheets for cutting up and using as wound dressings), a CD player and a piano.

The donations are being put to good use in Lviv and frontline hospitals in Kherson and Dnipro while the other equipment has gone to other hospitals (including one for soldier amputees), GP surgeries, medical centres and dentists in Kiev and other cities.

This is part of the 60 tonnes of donations of supplies and equipment that the URG has collected and sent to Ukraine since the conflict began a year ago. The group is co-ordinated by Rich Akehurst a seasoned ex-soldier, search expert, paramedic and medical instructor.

The URG also runs a welcome centre where Ukrainian refugees can meet up, receive donations of clothes, shoes, toys, bicycles and household items and children can play in safety. Other items are sold at a pop-up shop in the town centre.

If anyone would like to donate to the URG, please email [email protected] or call 07710 989054.