Mrs Hancock said: “When we first started people were donating toothbrushes and things like that, but now we have lots of medical equipment and hospital beds.

“People and companies have been very generous and have donated things by the pallet-load.

“A local businessman has very generously been letting us use half of his industrial unit, but unfortunately as he is moving out, we will also have to.”

The 68-year-old started the charity when Ukraine’s war with Russia broke out in 2022.

She said her connection to the country had been unknown to her until after her father’s death in 1992.

While she had long believed the World War Two veteran had been Polish, she discovered he was actually from Ukraine.

Since then, she has made contact with family members in the country, and has some relatives fighting against the Russians.

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