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Campaigner's extraordinary tribute to husband nears 1,000 blood donations - as NHS renews appeal to boost vital blood stocks

A wife and mum from Kent who is appealing to people to give a 'pint' of blood in memory of her husband is backing an urgent NHS appeal urging donors to help rebuild vital blood stocks as her campaign approaches 1,000 donations.

Record year for NHS Stem Cell Donor Registry

A record number of people registered as stem cell donors through the NHS last year – helping give more seriously ill patients the chance of having a life-saving transplant.

NHSBT partners with digital health app to register more Black heritage blood donors through UK workplaces

The programme brings NHS clinicians and sickle cell advocates directly into employee networks, creating opportunities for employees to learn more about sickle cell and understand the lifesaving difference their blood donation can make.

Campaigns

We run various campaigns to find the 135,000 new donors we need each year and encourage them to carry on donating.

Are you the giving type?

We're celebrating our amazing donors and inviting the nation's giving types to donate.

Discover how giving helps

Love is in the blood

Our new YouTube show in partnership with Channel 4 follows 8 singletons who go on blind dates behind dividers while they donate to help save lives.

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The Donor

Remarkable stories from the world of giving blood.

The Benefits of Reading

Whether it’s a pulpy page-turner, a fascinating non-fiction book, or an article from The Donor, reading has proven benefits – including for blood, plasma and platelet donors. In the National Year of Reading, find out how reading can help you.

The phoenix club: Birmingham Transplant FC

At 17, Rowan Caney was living his dream, playing for Aston Villa’s youth side and dreaming of a professional contract. Then he was diagnosed with severe aplastic anaemia, needing blood and platelet transfusions and a stem cell transplant.

“The birthday I didn’t think I would have”

Birthdays are occasions where we often express our gratitude, but Elliot Wills says he only experienced his 14th birthday thanks to blood donors.

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