Terror attacks and the Grenfell Tower
tragedy have made the past 12 months the British Red Cross’s busiest year since
the Second World War, for an army of emergency response volunteers.
More than 1,000 recruits have been
called to the scenes of atrocities over the last year - with many doubling or
even tripling up, helping not only victims and survivors of Grenfell but also
the London Bridge, Finsbury Park mosque and Manchester Arena disasters.
Now a dozen of them are being
celebrated by the charity by featuring in a new photoshoot, unveiled today after being spearheaded by award-winning artist Rankin - ahead of next
week’s Red Cross Week, 148 years since the British branch of the charity was
founded.