11 May 2022
North West Blood bikes Lancs and Lakes - registered charity 1147282 - have been providing volunteer motorcyle transport support to the NHS across Lancashire and South Lakes for ten years. The Charity was officially registered on 12th May 2012. So on Thursday evening 12th May 2022 Blackpool Tower will be lit red as many of the NWBB volunteers, supporters and stakeholders gather to celebrate the occasion.
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StMary’s Parish Church Dalton in Furness have their Christmas Tree Festival open 2-5pm Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through December.
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Both the stores of Sainsbury’s at Bamber Bridge and Morecambe have been collecting for us over the past 12 months and it is coming to a close. The staff at both stores have been great, but we mustn’t forget the customers who have helped us by donating. All the money collected helps us keep our fleet of emergency bikes on the road and our volunteers in fuel.
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16 February 2019
For the past 12 months the June Baker Singers have been fundraising for us. This week members Paul Cull and Dave Lakeland attended a presentation of cheques totalling a massive £1354. They also very kindly serenaded Paul as it was his birthday! Thank you so much!
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25 June 2018
After weeks of glorious sunshine we should have known better than to bring out the central area gazebo. Our third major event of the year and our third wet one! Despite the weather we had a fabulous time and had an excellent attendance of members from all areas. Along with some new faces, we had the pleasure of the lovely Gary Warn who is once again an active member in North West Blood Bikes proving that once you join this amazing group there is just no escape!
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25 June 2018
Within Central Lancs area lies the beautiful rural village of Goosnargh, a village that our riders pass through on most days. It is also the home of the Goosnargh and Whittingham Women’s Institute who meet in the village hall, which is where Mike Hockney and I caught up with them and delivered a talk on what we do at North West Blood Bikes and how this benefits their community.
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09 June 2018
In 2011 four keen motorcyclists got together and decided to help the NHS Hospitals in the North West of England by providing free urgent and emergency, out of hours transport for Blood, Platelets, Samples for analysis, medication, Doctors notes, donor breast milk for premature babies, in fact anything that they could carry safely on motorbikes.
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11 May 2018
On Tuesday evening I was heading to my scheduled Blood Bike talk with a small degree of trepidation after the sudden loss of one of our colleagues Russ Curwen only 3 days before. However as I arrived with Colm Carton our Central Area Manager the welcome we received from Dot and the rest of the ladies of Spendmore Lane Friendship Hour diminished any concerns within seconds. I don’t believe Colm had chance to even get off his bike before getting a great big hug!
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20 April 2018
ASDA have yet again done us proud with their support of North West Blood Bikes. We have been very fortunate over the last few months in many stores across the region being chosen by customers to win the green token scheme. Chorley ASDA store is no exception to this and on Saturday 14th April we were privileged to be presented with a cheque for £500.
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20 April 2018
For the second year in a row this event has been an incredibly wet one but we didn’t let the rain dampen our spirits.
We had the lovely Marion to attract people over and have a chance to sit on a liveried blood bike. (thanks Simon for entrusting her to us), a large selection of merchandise and of course as has become a tradition a selection of cakes to raise money through donations. We had lots of enquiries and hopefully these will result in new members of the charity plus a few future events.
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