FAMILY FUN DAY

Sunday 16 April 2023 9am to 2pm

Francis Park, Blacktown Showground Precinct supporting cord blood research

Bring yourself, your friends and your family to our Family Fun Day Enjoy a Rotary Sausage Sizzle, face painting, balloons, a jumping castle and a bric-a-brac stall Most importantly, make a $10 donation to our Cord Blood Research Project and walk 2km around THE CAFÉ GREEN or Use QR Code to donate the rural Fire service will be on display for the children

The Family Fun Day and Walk is organised by the Inner Wheel Club of Blacktown City, on behalf of Inner Wheel District A53

“We now have more donors than at any point in the past 10 years, however demand for all blood groups, especially O Negative continues to increase as hospitals catch up on surgeries post-pandemic.”

She said donors of all blood types were needed every day of the year, but that the blood groups being called for today make up about 90 per cent of the Australian population.

“Right now, we need 3,600 people to donate blood over the next week.

“In particular, O Negative has the universal blood type and is used to

“The need for blood is often unplanned and urgent and Easter is often a time when many of our donors take a break. This year, more than 40 of our donor centres around the country will be open on Good Friday so we are asking people to book in and come back for another donation when they are next eligible, to ensure we can keep hospital fridges well stocked.

“With one in three of us needing donated blood or blood products in our lifetime, the life you save could be that of friend or family member,” she said.

To book visit lifeblood.com.au, download the Donate Blood app or call 13 14 95.