Saturday, September 14, 2013

Blood and LIFE every two minutes at Greenbelt.


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One new blood or organ donor every 2 minutes

This year onsite the fleshandblood campaign saw hundreds of festivalgoers flood to sign up to become blood and organ donors. In fact, NHS Blood and Transplant witnessed a new donor sign up every two minutes during the time they were open, culminating in a total of over 800 people who registered to give blood or signed up to the NHS Organ Donor Register during the festival.
The youngest to register as an organ donor was a 7-year old boy who joined with his mother saying, “Someone else will need them more than I will”.
fleshandblood were hosting the registration drive at the festival as part of their ongoing campaign to see the UK Church supporting NHS Blood and Transplant in their goal to increase registered blood and organ donors nationwide. And here at Greenbelt we welcomed the opportunity to promote the life-giving potential of blood and organ donation as a special action at this year’s celebration.
Paul Northup, Greenbelt’s Creative Director said, “Enabling Greenbelters to sign up as blood and organ donors in a year where we celebrated life’s beginnings has been a privilege. We’re overwhelmed by the communal generosity that was shown and want to thank NHS Blood and Transplant and all those who made the decision to become donors at the festival.”
The partnership not only included registering new donors at the festival but also a poem written exclusively for the campaign by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams featured in this year’s Festival Guide.
Zeeshan Asghar, Partnership Development Manager at NHS Blood and Transplant said, “We’re delighted with the response from Greenbelt festival goers who have made this one of our most successful events ever. We would like to say thank you to the event organisers for allowing us to feature at the festival, it would not be possible to have recruited so many people without their support. In addition, we would like to thank all the festivalgoers who registered, as their decisions will help to save many lives in the future.”
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