09 April 2015
In the evening of Wednesday 8th April 2015, with a new Controller, Jo Kenyon-Swift in charge, and veteran Rider Peter Haworth, we reached 12,000 call outs within our first 3 years of operating.
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Saturday 11th April 2015 is Botany Bay Fun Day, [just off the M61 at Chorley] and we will be there with bikes and stand. Two friends of Emma Grandison who sadly passed away earlier this year, and who was a great supporter of NWBB Lancs & Lakes, are kayaking the Leeds to Liverpool canal to raise money for Cancer Care, etc., in Emma’s name.
We will be there from 09:30 and the guys are expected at Botany Bay around 11:00, so come along it should be a fun day for all the family.
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25 February 2015
North West Blood Bikes Lancs & Lakes are holding a Race Day at 3 Sisters Race Track, Wigan on 12th May 2015. Racing starts at 2pm and it’s a great day for bikers. Tickets are reduced to £10 per bike and all proceeds go to NWBB Lancs & Lakes. All riders welcome and there are likely to be some celebrities there too. The Bee and 2 BR Radio are going to broadcast from the site too.
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Dateline; 23rd February 2015 in the early hours of Monday morning we successfully completed 11,000 call-outs, 1,000 of which were completed from the middle of January to date, despite some atrocious weather, well done everyone. We have asked several hospitals to see if they can tighten up the number of call outs, in other words to see if those items not desperately urgent can wait a while to see if there is anything else and this has just started …
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13 February 2015
Today was the funeral of a Dear Friend of North West Blood Bikes Lancs & Lakes, Emma Grandison, wife of Ian and brother of James Robinson, one of our members, and we were privileged to be able to escort the cortege. Emma was diagnosed with Cancer whilst carrying her then unborn baby, Erin, and for the sake of the baby refused treatment until after Erin was born. Erin is now 15 months old, although Emma was only given 6 months, she survived much longer. NWBBLL has the support of Ian and James’s families. R.I.P. Emma, your name will live on, on one of our bikes.
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Another milestone, on 4th January 2015, 33 months after we began we have successfully completed 10,000 runs, over 7,000 in the last 12 months alone.
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To all our Members, your Families and Friends, to all our Hospital’s Staff and Families, and to all Blood Bike Groups around the United Kingdom and Ireland, we wish you all a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year.
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24 December 2014
To all our volunteers, their families, friends and supporters of NWBB Lancs & Lakes, to all Blood Bike Groups around the Country including NABB and to all the staff at all the Hospitals in Lancashire and the Lake District, have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year.
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Tuesday 9th December 2014, our Chairman received a request from the Pathology Department at Royal Preston Hospital to transport an urgent blood sample to Cardiff for urgent analysis of a specialist test.
Time was critical and transporting the sample by taxi would have taken significantly longer than using a motorbike and would have incurred significant costs.
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16 November 2014
22:15 hrs on Friday evening, 14th November 2014, and the Police call for our help. There had been a large chemical incident at Royal Preston Hospital in the Path Lab and it had to close meaning that all samples, blood, etc., could not be analysed or distributed at/from the main hospital in the centre of Lancashire. All analysis of samples had to go to other hospitals, mainly the sister hospital at Chorley but further afield too.
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