NORTHUMBRIA BLOOD BIKES
September 2016 - Please feel free to print, copy, save or forward this newsletter to increase awareness of our charity!
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3 Peaks Challenge
On the 6th August Dan McPherson & Ian Hope took part in the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge. As well as choosing to support us with their fundraising they also supported WECAN. It looks like they had some beautiful scenery to enjoy during their trek. Well done to you both for completing the challenge and raising a total of Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered 1166689 ÂŁ892 forCharity bothNumber charities!
Back in June The Bebside Inn hosted a weekend of fundraising. Jeannie Smith had her head shaved and The Bebby was bouncing with entertainment. We were proud to thank the team for the £1876.63 cheque they presented us with! They had such a blast that they are hosting another weekend: ‘Last of the summer claret’ 16th & 17th September. Friday night – Dirt Money Saturday 4pm – Work in Progress Saturday night – King for a day effective and timely transportation essential blood andand medicalhot products No tickets areProviding required. Camping is £3ofper person food available. Registered Charity Number 1166689 The Bebside Inn, Front Street, Blyth, NE24 4HT
Annual General Meeting Thursday 15 September 2016 19:00hrs The Newcastle Civic Centre Collingwood Suite - Barras Bridge, Newcastle, NE1 7RS Nearest Parking: Civic Centre Car Park Hancock Street (Nearest Post Code for Sat Nav NE1 8PB), many other locations available in the City. The Civic Centre is ideally located, close to Haymarket Metro station, main bus routes and the central motorway. The Collingwood Suite is situated on the first floor above the Registrars entrance Documents available in news item on website – login required.
Congratulations to Nikki Renton, (volunteer Bill Deacon's daughter), who ran the Edinburgh marathon and raised over ÂŁ200 for us. Nikki, (in the orange vest), seen here at mile 14. She crossed the finish line in 4:34hrs.
Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
On Sunday 28th August some of the team who will be running this year’s Great North Run held a bag pack at Tesco Consett to boost their fundraising. Generous customers supported with donations totaling £786.22. We have 21 runners this year all running to raise funds for Northumbria Blood Bikes. We are also joined by 5 runners who are raising money for The Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes. They have put a massive amount of effort into training and fundraising, we can't thank them enough. This year we will have our cheering point outside the entrance of the South Tyneside District Hospital on John Reid Road, South Shields (opposite the fire station). Please come down and help cheer on our runners, everyone is welcome. Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
The Peacock Inn, Gosforth, held a fundraising evening with Newcastle UTD Legend John Anderson, (as seen on our front page). Many thanks to Football, Biscuits and Banter who organised this event and everyone that attended. It’s not very often our bikes are invited into a pub.
Thank you raised ÂŁ657.74! Football, Biscuits and Banter have organised another evening, this time at The Strawberry, more details on page 11.
Following the tradition of naming our bikes after North East castles our volunteers have voted on the name of the newest addition to our fleet. Introducing our new bike recently named by members as Alnwick. Votes were: Alnwick 34, Langley 29, Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689 and Prudhoe 12.
We celebrated our second National Blood Bikes Awareness Day, on 12th August, we focused this year on the ‘diversity’ of the work we do and the volunteers who keep us running. “We’re not just about blood!” We started our day with a big announcement. In the early hours of the morning our team out on the road hit another milestone. Our volunteers have completed 10,000 jobs since going live on 03/02/14. Northumbria Blood Bikes are the men and women across the North East of England, who have dedicated their spare time, to provide a free out-of-hours rapid response courier service for the transportation of medical essentials. We transport blood, samples and other urgent and emergency items to hospitals and health centres in our region as well as ‘Blood on Board’ to the Great North Air Ambulance. Our entire operation is ran by unpaid volunteers and financed through public donations, fundraising events and corporate sponsorship. Blood bikes are known as the ‘unseen emergency service’ due to the nocturnal network of volunteers who are rarely witnessed by the recipients of our deliveries. Calls are handled by our own shift coordinators who answer calls then pass them on to our riders and drivers. These call handlers keep track of the team out on the roads and ensure they reach their destination safely. All of our riders and drivers hold advanced qualifications and are fully trained for handling the precious items they transport. Aside from the operational roles we also have a team of fundraisers and speakers who are vital to our continued awareness campaigns. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our committed volunteers and generous support of the public we can continue to #makeadifferencetogether and save lives #ItsWhatWeDo. We’re proud to be Northumbria Blood #BloodBikesDay ProvidingBikes effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
We combined our awareness day, based in Times Square Newcastle outside the Centre for Life, with a group coffee morning. Throughout the day members popped by for a cuppa and a catch up. The team from Made in Tyne & Wear’s Bulletin stopped by for an interview as did Heart NE News. One of our patrons Heidi Mottram, CEO of Northumbrian Water, recorded a special message about “It's not just about blood”. Thank you for your continued support Heidi.
Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
We are always grateful for the support of our Patrons. Whilst Prof Jarman couldn't be with us in person, he was there in spirit, whilst covering his important A&E role. Thanks Bob appreciate the work you as doing. “Unfortunately manning the emergency department at the RVI today as would have loved to be with the Northumbria Blood Bikes crew at the Centre for Life Times Square, Newcastle upon Tyne. We're celebrating the good work done locally, and also nationally via sister organisations, transporting essential blood and medical supplies out of hours! As a major trauma centre consultant I've seen first handhold this service benefits patient care. This includes daily supply of blood products to the Great North Air Ambulance! I am so proud to be a patron of NBB; they are all volunteers but are so professional and driven. However, we still need more volunteers.�
Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
After our recruitment drive for shift coordinators our membership secretary Debbie Paton has worked endlessly to get through training the new comers. Joined by two of her right hand buddies she held an on the shift training session in the Community Room at Tesco Consett. We now have a healthier Rota with existing and new members manning the phone lines. Thank you to everybody that re-trained for this role, or joined us as a new member or shared our call for help. As with all of the jobs roles we are always looking for new members so if you have think you have what it takes to keep our charity operational please visit our website and fill out the application form. If you are a new member don’t forget that the next induction meeting is on Saturday 10th September, 9am until 12pm, at Northumbria University. You’ll need to register to attend the session so please login to our website and the form can be found under ‘Members’ > ‘Forms’ > ‘Register for Induction Session’. Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
Sunday 25th September is the 10th Anniversary of the Washington Wetlands bike meet. We have been invited and we hope to see you there too.
Photograph taken at 5.30am, courtesy of Alan Ross, while out delivering to North Tyneside. A small fraction of the effective andexperience timely transportation beautiful scenery ourProviding volunteers get to while of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689 on shift.
August has been the month of uniform service days and some interesting budding new recruits. From Owls to fireman Sam and even the Stig made an appearance. Consett fire station, Marley Park fire station, Hebburn fire station and Durham City Centre.
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The Bill Quay Festival kindly named us as charity of the year and we attended the full weekend of entertainment.
Do you shop online? Do it through easyfundraising.org.uk and raise a free donation for Northumbria Blood Bikes every time you shop! https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/nbb/
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Funds raised to date from the staff and customers of Dobbies Ponteland:
It’s incredible that we have raised a further £1545.34 at Dobbies Ponteland during August. That brings our total over the £9,000 mark which is enough for us to purchase a used bike to be converted into operational use. Since choosing us as their charity of the year they aim to support us with raising enough money, (£15,000), for us to purchase and fully equip a new bike. We are thankful for the continued support of customers and the warm welcome our volunteers from the staff.
Friday 25th March £586.18 Saturday 26th March £524.33 Monday 28th March £595.98 Friday 1st April £67.94 Saturday 9th April £439.71 Sunday 10th April £317.21 Thursday 14th April £242.38 Friday 15th April £390.17 Saturday 16th April £481.23 Sunday 17th April £365.31 Saturday 30th April £578.81 Sunday 1st May £387.47 Monday 2nd May £376.64 Thursday 19th May £116.52 Friday 20th May £92.24 Saturday 28th May £510.50 Sunday 29th May £354.96 Monday 30th May £182.49 Saturday 2nd July & Sunday 3rd July £747.47 Saturday 23rd July £435.36 Sunday 24th July £224.01 Saturday 20th August £535.13 Saturday 27th August £460.75 Sunday 28th August £340.31 Monday 29th August £209.15
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£9,564.25
More news in brief: We received a ÂŁ50 donation from HMRCs Data Analytics Team from their fundraising through selling cakes and crisps.
We attended Crawcrook Village Fair on the 6th August. An event filled with entertainment and stall holders for the whole family to enjoy. We raised ÂŁ118.57 in funds.
We are looking for people with graphic design experience / knowledge / tools to support with our ongoing publicity. We have a number of things that we need designed so if you have the skills required please can you contact Kirsty publicity@northumbriabloodbikes.org.uk At the last open meeting, the subject of having events managers within the group. This role would be to: -Book a presence at events (agreeing it with fundraising coordinator) -Add events to the events calendar -Work with the event organisers -Ensure that the correct resources are arranged for events -Where events need more volunteers, raised with fundraising coordinator -Ensuing that resources are collected after an event and made ready for next one -Make sure that sealed collection buckets are taken to Treasurer after an event for decanting and counting The role is very much an administrative role and would suit somebody with some attention to detail. Anybody interested, drop Graham a line and we can get you going. Email to fundraising@northumbriabloodbikes.org.uk
Members should have noticed that there is now an extra row towards the bottom of the Rota for committee on call. This person will be the first point of contact for any emergencies during a shift. The usual committee emergency number should be used, as those on call are able to differentiate between a regular call and an emergency one. Any issues on shift which require support or an immediate answer be that a system failure, Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products break down, accidents, ect, ring the committee on call number. This number is available via Registered Charity Number 1166689 shift controller home at the top of the page.
FUTURE EVENTS FOR YOUR DIARY: Lots of things happening, and we need your help to support them! If you can help, even if only for a couple of hours, please contact us….information is at the bottom of this page. NBB members can register their attendance for most of these events on our website (login required).
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Stormin’ The Castle Witton Castle. We have had a bike wood burner donated to raffle!
Harbottle Show 9:00 until17:00 The Oak Tree Field. This annual Borders Show dates back to 1856. The Harbottle Show is the perfect day out for the whole family.
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Tesco Annfield Plain 9:00 until 18:00 A fundraising and awareness stand with a blood bike.
Discovery Museum 11:00 until 16:00 Free Entry. Visit a motorcycle display on the new Challenger Plaza outside of Discovery Museum.
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Great North Run Cheering Point 9:30 until 16:30 Join us at our cheering point outside South Tyneside Hospital, opposite the fire station, on the John Reid Road.
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Annual General Meeting 19:00hrs The Newcastle Civic Centre Collingwood Suite - Barras Bridge, Newcastle, NE1 7RS
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Ryton Village Show 10:00 until 15:00 Ryton Village Show and Family Fair is held annually in September at Ryton Cricket Ground, NE40 3AS.
Park Lodge Motorcycle Festival 11:00 until 16:00 The event is to be held at Park view, North Lodge, DH3 4BB.
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- for any opportunities to increase our funding through sponsorship, locations for collecting tins, supermarket events etc…
Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689