Join the Convoy | Drive Aid to Ukraine

£2,000

Vehicle & Mission Contribution

A Volunteer Crew Place That Becomes a Medical Evacuation Vehicle

This is not a tour, and your contribution is not a donation: it is a required contribution that part-funds the purchase of a 4x4 medical evacuation vehicle, plus the fuel and logistics to get it there. You are not a passenger on a trip. You are a volunteer crew member who personally drives that aid to Ukraine. When the convoy reaches Lviv, the vehicle stays and goes to work saving lives. You come home knowing you took it there yourself.

Volunteer crew drive the 4x4s. If ambulances travel with the convoy, they are driven by Ukrainian drivers.

Alongside your contribution, you book and pay for your own accommodation at the convoy's overnight stops, directly with each hotel. Budget around £500. We share the route's recommended stops and negotiate group rates, but the booking is yours.

Your contribution funds

✓ A share of the purchase of a 4x4 medical evacuation vehicle, which is handed over in Ukraine
✓ The medical supplies packed into it
✓ Convoy logistics: fuel, tolls, route planning, border coordination and ground support
✓ Pre-departure briefings, convoy comms and your crew place, driving in rotation from London to Lviv

You arrange and pay for yourself

✕ Accommodation at overnight stops, booked and paid directly with each hotel (budget around £500; we share recommended stops and group rates)
✕ Specialist travel insurance valid for Ukraine. Standard travel insurance is invalidated by FCDO advice, so war-risk cover from a specialist insurer is mandatory. We will point you to providers used by aid volunteers.
✕ Food and personal expenses on the road
✕ Getting to the London start point, and your journey home after the handover in Lviv
✕ A 1968 International Driving Permit, and visa or passport costs if any apply to you

We keep this list honest so you can budget properly. If you are unsure about any cost, ask us before you apply.

Read This Before You Apply

This Is Not a Holiday

The convoy ends in Lviv, in western Ukraine, a country at war. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office advises against all but essential travel to Lviv and against all travel to other parts of Ukraine. Strikes can and do happen in the western regions, including Lviv. The FCDO cannot evacuate you from Ukraine and the British Embassy cannot help you in person. You need to read the current FCDO advice yourself and make your own adult decision.

Every crew member is vetted before a place is confirmed, including driving record checks. Every crew member signs a participation agreement, arranges specialist war-risk insurance, and attends briefings. We plan carefully, we travel with experienced leadership under a named convoy leader with final go/no-go authority, and we do not take unnecessary risks. But we will not pretend the risk is zero, and we will not take anyone who treats it like a stag do.

If you have read all of that and you still feel the pull, you are exactly who we are looking for.

The Process

How a Crew Place Is Confirmed

Apply below. Tell us who you are, what you can drive and why you want to come. No payment is taken at this stage.

We talk. A video call with the convoy team. We check licences, experience and expectations, and you get to ask us anything.

Your place is confirmed. Accepted crew receive payment details for the £2,000 Vehicle & Mission Contribution, the recommended accommodation list to book directly, the insurance requirements and the kit list.

We prepare together. Briefings, route plans, vehicle allocation and meet-ups before departure day.

We drive. London to Lviv, together, and you hand your vehicle to the people who need it.

Applications Open

Apply for Your Crew Place

Places are limited by the number of vehicles. Applying costs nothing and commits you to nothing. We will reply within a few days.

First Name *

Last Name *

Email Address *

Phone (with country code) *

Where are you based? *

Driving Licence *

The convoy's 4x4s can be driven on a full car licence. Tell us if you are automatic-only, as many 4x4s are manual.

Relevant experience (optional but helpful)

Why do you want a place on this convoy? *

I understand this convoy travels to Ukraine as a volunteer crew delivering vehicles, that I must arrange and pay for my own specialist war-risk travel insurance, my accommodation at overnight stops and my food, and that a crew place is only confirmed after vetting, a signed participation agreement and payment of the £2,000 Vehicle & Mission Contribution. I have read the honesty section above.

No payment is taken now. We review every application personally.