Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
Well done to our fundraising volunteers for the collection at Tesco North Shields who had a sterling £245.15 in their buckets and £8.00 taken via our new contactless system.
We had a lovely chat with Adient. After finding out a bit more of what each other do we were presented with a cheque for £340 from their colleague’s Christmas Bingo. A big thank you to all involved.
A fantastic donation of £1100 handed to us from Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers at The Turf pub in Consett. A big thank you to them.
Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
Back in November 2019 we shared the news that Christine and Rick had completed their epic challenge of a 12 day trek of Everest Base Camp. This phenomenal couple have presented us with ÂŁ800 they had raised through sponsorship. We would like to say a huge thank you to them both and congratulations on this incredible achievement!
With Winter in full swing we are pleased to introduce our latest vehicle to the fleet, which was purchased and prepared for us by www.fredhenderson.com in Durham.
Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
In November we had the pleasure of attending the cheque presentation for the ÂŁ15,000 we received through the Tesco Bags of Help centenary grants. Thank you to all the Tesco colleagues for being so welcoming and the support from Groundwork UK. We are grateful to every customer who chose to support us with their blue tokens during the voting period. With this funding we will be adding a new car to our fleet of vehicles which will enable us to continue to serve those who require our help across the North East of England. This vehicle will help us to transport bulky items and assist us during extreme weather conditions to ensure our service is available every day of the year. Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
Christmas Eve Our volunteer driver, Edward, relayed with North West Blood Bikes Lancs & Lakes to deliver new baby samples from Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Westmorland General Hospital and Furness General Hospitals to the Maternal Serum Screening Lab at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
On Christmas Day Our volunteer driver, Jeff, met with Dumfries and Galloway Blood Bikes to collect Blood Samples they had from Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary. He then relayed with Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes who took this very special package to Northern General Hospital in Sheffield.
28th December Our volunteer rider, Peter, met with Blood Bikes Cumbria to collect urgent blood samples they had from West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven. He then relayed with Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes who took it to the Specialist Blood Unit NHSBT Leeds. All completely free of charge by volunteers! #BloodBikes #ItsWhatWeDo #TeamWork #MakeADifference Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
As many people were making final preparations for Christmas, Northumbria Blood Bikes helped to spread some festive cheer with their annual Blood Biking Santa Run. Volunteers had been gathering donations of gifts and toys to deliver to children who sadly find themselves in hospital over Christmas. We were overwhelmed by the incredible donations that were made by our own volunteers, their families, friends, employers and local companies. This year saw 52 giant Santa bags full which enabled us to make deliveries to youngsters on wards at four of our local North East hospitals. It was especially moving for volunteers to hear from staff the difference the previous years’ donations had made; plus, seeing the smiles on the faces of everybody who saw our team out with Santa and his Elf made it worthwhile. Thanks to all those involved who helped make this possible, with donating and delivering the toys and to all those on the wards that made our volunteers welcome.
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B&M Gateshead Sniperly Fire Station
We were fortunate to be invited to attend over 34 events during this period. Events provide us with an important forum to raise awareness of our work, recruit volunteers and raise those valPeterlee Open and Dayto those who contributed. uable A. A huge thank you to Fire all ofStation our volunteers
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Heart of Hirst
Sunny Crawcrook Fair
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Morrison’s Killingworth
Stormin’ the Castle
Whitehouse Farm
Tesco North Shields Ponteland Duck Race Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
September arrives and in the North East that means its
Great North Run time Our unstoppable runners raised funds with every mile they ran
You are all amazing! We were also honoured to be asked to lead out the run with one of our Blood Bikes too
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Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
Ladies from Hamsterley WI enjoying a sit on “Primula” after an Awareness Presentation on Tuesday evening (and some great cake)!
Ponteland Rock Choir raised £950, a remarkable sum, a smashing group of people and some lovely singing. It was a grand evening out.
Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
Sarah has just donated £50 to our organisation, the funds came from O’Connor Utilities Ltd who requested that she donate to a charity of her choice Thanks to both parties and thanks for the tea! We would like to thank everyone that has raised funds, made donations, supported us to collect onsite or held collection boxes over this period. Here are a few special thanks:
The General Havelock The Bebside Inn The Coastline Café Blyth The Conservative Clubs Association Northern Area- thank you for choosing us to be your charity of the year Morpeth U3A Framwellgate Moor and Pity Me WI, Staindrop WI, Southridge- Whitley Bay WI Morrisons- Morpeth and Killingworth The Cross Keys ESH B&M Team Valley Marks and Spencer Ashington Leisure Centre Northumberland College NARPO St. George’s Reform Church IRTE North East (Society of Operations Engineers) The Garage Bar & Grille The Vigilant Inn Custom Lids Team Valley Tesco Consett, Tesco North Shields, Tesco Hexham and all the fabulous Tesco stores that support us Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
A great bunch of young hearted people with ‘Primula’ Startforth Lunch Club
Morpeth Mothers Union. Here are a few of them making choreographed Vroom Vroom noises with Blood Bike ‘Scott’!
We get invited to talk about the work of Northumbria Blood Bikes Our fab speakers really enjoy these events and the added benefits of great cakes!
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Darlington and District Council of Women, enjoying a browse around ‘Primula’ at today’s Awareness Talk delicious Coffee biscuits and cakes! were delicious Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
The Kerry family have shown great courage following the devastating loss of their son Owen. They have worked tirelessly raising funds for NBB and encouraging people to give blood in memory of Owen Kerry. We had the honour to announce to them, just before Christmas that they had raised enough to purchase a brand-new blood bike dedicated in Owen’s memory. #legacyofourlostboy #apintforowen #bloodbikes
Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
Annually the members of the charity vote for the volunteer of the year. In 2019 Doreen was the well-deserved winner. Doreen has one of the behind the scenes roles, however she is multitalented and in December became Mrs. Claus. Congratulations Doreen y
Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689
Thanks to the staff at @HMRCgovuk Washington who raised funds to buy chocolate oranges for all the emergency services at Christmas. Our volunteers really appreciated it. #MakeADifference
Team NBB Chocolate Orange
Our Volunteers throughout the year are stopped by members of the public, who wish to thank them. Volunteers are often told of personal stories, that show how these boxes they drive and ride around are often the difference between, life and death. We would like to say thank you to everyone who shares these experiences, our volunteers are touched and humbled; but proud to be part of the team that really can #makeadifference #itswhatwedo If you want to volunteer, we would love to hear from you www.northumbriabloodbikes.org.uk
THANK YOU To the strangers who rush across petrol forecourts to pay for our NBB cars and bikes fuel. Thank you to the strangers who push money on to us for donations. Thank you to the strangers who give us chocolate. Thank you to the strangers who buy us coffee if we are in a queue. You arrive strangers and leave as friends
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Mayor on a motorbike!!
Collecting at Morrison’s
We are very grateful to Mayor Alison Byard, for all her hard work during the year, supporting Northumbria Blood Bikes Thank you again for making us your charity of the year Check out Facebook Alison Byard- Mayor of Morpeth for more highlights
Christmas lights, carols & collecting
Chinese New Year Fundraising at Mulan
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Committee Messages Stephen Winn Training Officer Great attendance at January’s Inductions sessions. 15 rider/ drivers in the morning and 7 controllers in the afternoon. Many thanks to Adient and Andrew Polkinghorn for letting NBB use their facilities and the hot drinks. Thank you to Chris Tolley for bringing along a bike and showing the volunteers what to do. Finally, thank you to Mike Thompson for delivering both sessions - non-stop talking - he must have a sore throat. Thank you to all for your support. Sean Storey Hospital Liaison Office Overall jobs total for 2019 was 14,168. Cumulative total to end of 2019 > 55,156 jobs.
From everyone at Northumbria Blood Bikes we would like to say a big thank you for your support over the past year. Goodbye to the decade that saw our charity coming into existence, going from strength to strength, and here’s to future we hope with many more milestones. We hope that 2020 brings you happiness and good health! #HappyNewYear Providing effective and timely transportation of essential blood and medical products Registered Charity Number 1166689