25 January 2013
To date we have done 380 runs between hospitals, saving our local hospitals somewhere in the region of £20,000 and this is our first year, not only that we are only 9 months into it. The rate of runs is increasing month on month. What of the snow?
read full story19 January 2013
Yet another breast milk run for one of two resident "Ernie's" Graham Jones was called to take urgently needed breast milk from the Countess of Chester Hospital Milk Bank to Bolton Royal
read full story19 January 2013
West Lancs riders do it in the snow. Yes there were issues but our intrepid riders in West Lancashire bit the bullet and got on with the job between Ormskirk and Southport,
read full story18 January 2013
To date NWBB Lancs & Lakes has managed to complete 368 runs for our local hospitals since we started in May 2012. We have actually had 371 calls, but we couldn't do 3 of the runs for one reason or another and of course 2 of our runs were blue light
read full story06 January 2013
We do regular runs for Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals every night, but have had few ad hoc runs, that is until Saturday 5th January 2013, when it suddenly got all our duty riders out and our Controller interrupted whilst interior decorating.
read full story24 December 2012
At 16:00 hrs on Christmas Eve, our Chairman (Paul) got a call to go to the Countess of Chester Hospital to pick up two litres of donor breast milk for a poorly baby at Ormskirk Hospital.
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21 December 2012
Like Santa, we deliver presents at Christmas, the big difference is ours are very often Life Saving presents, be it Blood or Donor Breast Milk for very poorly, Premature Babies. We are a charity helping the hospitals transport urgent items
read full story21 December 2012
Wednesday 19th December 2012, Lee Townsend received a call at 18:17hrs from Preston asking if we could take an item to Chorley and described it as "Very Urgent". Lee was the Controller from the previous night and because it was before 19:00hrs the call went to him.
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08 October 2012
Last night saw our first blue light run. The call came in at 19:23 and off went our Chairman as one of the several currently blue light trained riders. Quickly collected the blood from Chorley Hospital and got it safely to Royal Preston Hospital.
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