Don't forget to check your cupboards tonight

You might moan about nothing much on the telly tonight...but that's not really a hardship

Hardship is what is being suffered by the thousands of people being forced to camp rough in the fields and hills outside Calais.

The refugee crisis is something that is affecting the whole of Europe, and something that we can all help, through something that unites us all..in the name of football.

That is why Dulwich Hamlet Football Club are proud to support our local humanitarian initiative set up by our Supporters Trust for tomorrow's game at home to Billericay Town.

Everything you donate will help individuals & families suffering night after night under makeshift tents just over the Channel.

Chairman of the Dulwich Hamlet Supporters Trust, Duncan Hart explained:

" Calais isn't a million miles away Our longest away trip this season is in Leiston and Calais is only a few miles further from South London."

He continued:

"This is not a political issue, it's a humanitarian one, and it's on our doorstep. It's not hard to set up a collection at the ground and ask people to bring unwanted items, to dig an old coat out the back of the cupboard, and help these people who are in desperate need."

Mishi Morath, from the Dulwich Hamlet Football Committee stated:

"The Football Club was asked by our Supporters Trust for permission for them to hold a collection for essentials urgently needed by the people stuck in makeshift camps at Calais. I am sure you are aware of the horrendous and dangerous conditions there.

This was immediately agreed to, not to send out a political message, but on humanitarian grounds. As a Football Club we reach out to our local community in so many ways, and this is just another extension of that. It would simply not right to sit back and not do anything.

We believe our local community & our fans will respond extremely generously to this appeal, and as a Football Club we are just glad, through our Supporters Trust, to be able to offer something positive to those who are suffering great hardship, many of whom will be part of the 'wider footballing family' supporting sides from their own homelands from which they were forced."

He finished with thanks:

"We are grateful to our Supporters Trust for initiating this, and as a Club are more than happy for it to be organised in the name of our fans. In fact we are-as always-extremely proud of them."