June 2016 - Race Against Blood Cancer

To all our supporters, we need your vote before 20^th June.

Our beloved Community Engagement Lead, Alex Morrison, has been nominated as ‘Positive Role Model’ for the 2016 National Diversity Awards and needs your help to win.

https://nominate.nationaldiversityawards.co.uk/Nominate/Endorse/29767?name=alex+morrison

Alex has been a driving force behind the charity since day one and has travelled around the country to raise awareness for blood cancer. In our first 12 months, he has helped us register over 2000 new donors and he was recently informed that our efforts have led to find our first of what we are confident will be many matches that will save the lives of blood cancer patients in need of a living saving bone marrow or stem cell match.

To give Alex some much deserved recognition for all his efforts and even more importantly, help get Race Against Blood Cancer more visibility at this increasingly influential event, we need you to take just two minutes out of your day to vote for Alex. It’s important that you do this in the next few days as voting closes on June 20^th.

Every vote counts! Thanks for your support and stay posted for some hopefully positive news soon.

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The May Bank holiday weekend was a crazy time for our engagement team as they completed two donor drives within 24 hours and 155 mi apart!

The marathon started on Sunday evening as the team headed to Myyst nightclub in Birmingham to join eager clubbers to raise awareness of the charity.

In our white t-shirts amidst the dressed up crowds, our team definitely stood out! Response was really great though as clubbers happily interacted with us, despite having been queuing in the cold for ages. They also managed to register just under 50 new donors, the majority of which from ethnic backgrounds, making it a very successful event.

The team wrapped up just before 2 AM and drove back down to London for a few hours’ sleep but were back up and running before they knew it as they headed to the Guyana Folk Festival in Croydon.

The tiredness quickly subsided as the music and carnival feel took over and the team started interacting with the festive crowds. With live music, performance, awards, extremely good food and various stalls, it was a great event to celebrate life and get people to sign up as new potential donors. After a brief speech on stage, Alex even ran into Ram John Holder, Porkpie from Desmond’s, backstage which confirmed that it was a great day.

This was a last minute drive and the response we got was great. While dancing and festivities made it hard to register many donors, we did manage to get 26 new registers. The team will also be back for the Guyanese tea party in July where, now that we are known, we expect to see great engagement and a lot more fun to come!