It's Plasma Donation Week, our chance to celebrate the giving types who donate plasma! 💙
Across our 3 centres in Birmingham, Reading and Twickenham, our donors look after our nation by providing life-saving medicines made from plasma.
This is used to help treat 17,000 people in the UK with rare diseases.
‼️ Plasma Donation Week is a celebration of our whole blood donors too - plasma is one of the components collected from your blood donations which, when added together, makes a massive difference.
Learn more ➡️ orlo.uk/uybh2
Yesterday was a first for us at Greater Manchester Blood Bikes Charity with four of our fleet in attendance at the same time at the Blood Bank picking up blood for hospitals in Manchester.
We are getting busier as a service as demand increases and appreciate the support of our sponsors and supporters who keep our service funded and operational to help the people of Greater Manchester.
Our motorcycles “Woody”,”Mailbox” and “Esskaye” with our riders Patrick B , Tony W and James C were all present and they were joined by Kevin B in our Kia “Reggie”.
Thanks to the John New Clews and colleagues at The Woodside club Middleton for the donation of “Woody” Mailbox Express and Darren Shaw for the donation of “Mailbox” and Smurfit Kappa for the donation of “Reggie” and sponsorship of “Esskaye”.
Below is a snapshot of our tracking system yesterday.
Could you help us through sponsorship of fuel or insurance please?
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Whiteknights have today participated in another relay of donated breast milk.
Thanks to Mike heath for volunteering today. A large consignment can be seen loaded into the car.
We are funded solely by YOU - We receive absolutely NO government or NHS funding!
See your generosity in action in March
🚨 We completed 317 Jobs
🤒 The most frequent runs were with samples
🌍 Our busiest hospital was Salford Royal
🏍 Most used bike was BMW Bike 1 Hinckley completing 68 jobs
🚁 We restocked the Air Ambulance 60 times
🍼 We did 5 essential runs to North West Milk Bank in Chester to collect human donor breast milk for hospitals in Manchester and delivered 97 litres of DBM in total
🏍 Our fleet travelled miles 11,575
🆘️ Of the jobs 70 were urgent and potentially LIFE SAVING
💰 Cost to the NHS - NOTHING!
Potential saving to the NHS this month over £19,000 ! Year to date that's nearly £48,000
SINCE WE STARTED THE BLOOD ON BOARD INITIATIVE IN JANUARY 2019 NORTH WEST AIR AMBULANCE HAVE SAVED 330 LIVES AS A DIRECT RESULT OF OUR INTERVENTION
A massive thank you to all our volunteers, riders, drivers, duty controllers, fundraisers, trustees and most importantly YOU the public who's kind and generous donations keep this charity's wheels turning ❤️
