News and campaigns

Latest news

Stories, press releases and statements.

Global blood services unite in a call for more donors

Blood services around the world are calling for more people to donate regularly as a range of pressures – from extreme weather and seasonal illness to changing donation patterns – challenge blood supplies.

NHS donor plea to fill over 60,000 appointments available over next 6 weeks as hot weather, holidays and high demand hits vital blood stocks

An urgent appeal has been issued to blood and platelet donors across England to help fill over 60,000 appointments available across the country as the NHS faces a significant shortfall in blood stocks.

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Campaigns

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

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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What legacy will you create?

This summer, we’ve partnered with the all-new Marvel Television’s Ironheart and two London charities - the African & Caribbean Leukaemia Trust and Black Blood Matters, to inspire more people of Black heritage to give blood and build a legacy.

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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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