Marrow

Marrow works with The Anthony Nolan Trust, holding clinics to give people the chance to join the bone marrow register, and raising the charitable funds needed for their lifesaving activities.

Our aim is to give every Leicester student the opportunity to join the bone marrow register and to raise awareness.

The Anthony Nolan Trust manage one of the largest registers of bone marrow in existence with over 350,000 people on it. At any one time it searches for donors for 7000 patients worldwide. Anthony Nolan finds matches for leukemia patients who need a lifesaving transplant. For someone with leukemia, a bone marrow transplant can be their only hope of life. They use their register, cord blood bank and research to find remarkable people who can give them that hope by donating their stem cells. By doing this, they save lives. Every day.

Will you come forward for patients looking for a blood stem cell donor? You could be the only one in the world who matches one of these patients. You can be screened by giving a small blood sample, and then your tissue type is placed on the Anthony Nolan Trust register.

If you are aged between 18 and 40, weigh over 8 stone and are in good health please come to one of our Marrow clinics, which we hold regularly around the Uni and Halls of Residence. There will also be a 2 day clinic in Queens Hall on 15th/16th November.

Key Goals:
1) To get more people to join the register and become a potential bone marrow donor
2) Raise money
3) Raise awareness

For more information visit the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow website: http://www.anthonynolan.com