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Our 2025 year in numbers

Our thanks go out to Wooler Parish Council for their donation of £602.20 from their community carol service. 

This incredible donation will enable us to complete around 200 jobs. In real terms that’s 200 people’s healthcare journeys we can support and potentially lives saved.

New merchandise launching this Saturday 17th January 2026 at our first fundraising event of the year at M&S Arnison Centre, Durham.

Enamel Blood Bike Keyrings and Pin Badges £3.00 each.

We shall have them available at fundraising events throughout the year.

If you’ve bagged yourself a ballot place for this year’s Great North Run it’s not too late to join team #BloodBikesGNR 

Sign up today by visiting:
www.northumbriabloodbikes.org.uk/gnr

 

Please vote for our charity to be in with a chance of winning a share of £60,000 in this grants round of My Giving Circle. 

To vote just click the link below:

https://mygivingcircle.org/northumbria-blood-bikes

And that's a wrap...

Today our volunteers have finished spreading festive cheer to the last of the Children’s Wards we visited in our Blood Bikes Santa Run 2025. Since we began this annual event it has grown year on year thanks to the generosity of those who support it. Back in 2017 we began by supporting one hospital but this year we are dropping off 126 giant Santa bags to 18 different Children’s wards, both in-patient and out-patient, at 12 different hospitals across our region.

Today our volunteers have been spreading some festive cheer to the second of the Children’s Wards we will be visiting in our Blood Bikes Santa Run 2025. Since we began this annual event it has grown year on year thanks to the generosity of those who support it. Back in 2017 we began by supporting one hospital but this year we are dropping off 126 giant Santa bags to 18 different Children’s wards, both in-patient and out-patient, at 12 different hospitals across our region.

Today our volunteers have begun spreading some festive cheer to the first of the Children’s Wards we will be visiting in our Blood Bikes Santa Run 2025. Since we began this annual event it has grown year on year thanks to the generosity of those who support it. Back in 2017 we began by supporting one hospital but this year we are dropping off 126 giant Santa bags to 18 different Children’s wards, both in-patient and out-patient, at 12 different hospitals across our region.

 

On our Santa Run today we visited Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust:

Relay Alert 

Today we took part in another relay. This relay was for urgent samples that needed to be transported from Edinburgh to the RVI in Newcastle. Thanks to Blood Bikes Scotland volunteer Joe and our volunteer Ian.

 

Urgent Relay Alert 

Urgent cancer medication needed in Edinburgh by 4:00pm and closest place that had it was St James hospital in Leeds. 

Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes collected at 9:30, transported to Scotch Corner by their volunteer Andy who passed it to our rider, Alan, at 10:30. We transported it to Berwick where we handed over to Joe of Blood Bikes Scotland at 12:55 who delivered it to Western General Hospital at 14:24.