Charity
Someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer such as leukaemia every 23 minutes. A blood stem cell (or bone marrow) transplant is often the only cure. Currently Anthony Nolan is only able to provide a matching donor for half the people that come to us in need of a lifesaving transplant. With your help we can grow our register of remarkable people willing to donate their stem cells, facilitate more transplants and save more lives. It costs £100 to recruit, tissue type and maintain just one potential donor to our register. Your donations will help fund our lifesaving work. Please visit www.anthonynolan.org for more information or email events@anthonynolan.org if you'd like to get more involved.
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Three years post transplant!
In 2008 I was running 30km a week, eating healthy, keeping slim, and planning my wedding. Within a fortnight I couldn't walk up a flight of stairs without losing my breath and in July 2009 I had a bone marrow transplant to cure a rare blood disorder.
Unfortunately, my only brother was not a match for me, so the Anthony Nolan Trust put out a worldwide search to find someone with my specific genetics, and a young man from America donated his stem cells to save my life.
This July marks my three year anniversary of the bone marrow transplant, and I am SO proud to be raising funds and awareness for Anthony Nolan, the UK's bone marrow charity, so that they can find matches for other people desperate for a heroic stranger.
If you are not on the bone marrow registry, PLEASE consider signing up today at anthonynolan.org.uk. It only takes a few minutes and you don't even have to give blood anymore - just spit! And if you are someone's match, it's NOT the painful procedure it was a few years ago - if you can tolerate giving blood, you can easily donate marrow, and you're back to normal in 3 weeks, having saved someone's life.
Unfortunately, genetic testing is not cheap and Anthony Nolan desperately need funds to type as many people as possible, especially men and those from ethnic minorities.
So please, please get on the registry if you can, and help me celebrate my own personal hero and remember my friends David, Vera, and Rob, who died in 2009 and 2010 from complications from their own bone marrow transplants.
This March I ran my first ever half marathon in Paris in a time of 1:47:12, and I'm hoping to beat that in Amsterdam in October. This May I'm looking to smash my 10km PB from 2008 of 51:07, and it'd be a massive deal for me to finally run this race faster than I did before I became ill.
Virgin Money Giving is a not for profit organisation and will claim gift aid on a charity's behalf where the donor is eligible for this. I really appreciate all your support and thank you for any donations.
Recent donors
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Josh £50.00 24.05.12 |
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Anonymous £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 24.05.12 |
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Matt Davey £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 24.05.12 Good Luck! |
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auntie £110.00 08.05.12 The best of luck to my favorite niece! Run like there's no tomorrow, knowing that tomorrow continues to come. |
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Debs R £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 05.05.12 Well done Melissa! This year I'll be running on 27th May as well, but quite a few minutes behind you based on the fantastic times you've posted recently! Have a great run! |
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Anonymous £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 04.05.12 |
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Paul W £10.00 04.05.12 You're kicking butt AND taking names. |
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Jeff Van Campen £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 03.05.12 |
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Anonymous £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 03.05.12 |
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Phil Dey £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 03.05.12 |
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Dave Letorey £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 03.05.12 Wow, I'm impressed |
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IzzyNutz £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 03.05.12 Cheers! |
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Mab13 £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 03.05.12 3 years and getting stronger and faster! Keep it up, Melissa:-) |
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Anonymous £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 03.05.12 |
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Caramel, Si, Mia & Wilder £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 03.05.12 Enjoy the run and good speed. You'll also doubtless be the grooviest, most stylishly clad runner there! xxx |
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Pikes and pikelettes £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 03.05.12 Well done you clever lady x |
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@rundembear £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 18.04.12 |
Running total
- Target:
- £500.00
- Total raised incl. Gift Aid:
- £545.00
- Total donors:
- 17
- Biggest donor:
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auntie
£110.00 - Last donor:
- Josh 24.05.12
- Offline fundraising:
- £0.00
