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Our Aim
Our aim is to provide a free out-of-hours, emergency transport service to the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, delivering blood and urgent items to locations in Cumbria and beyond…
Welcome to Blood Bikes Cumbria
Blood Bikes Cumbria is a Registered Charity 1159026 established by local volunteers formed as medical courier service to deliver essential blood, urgent medical supplies, free of charge and out of hours for the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust between premises in North and West Cumbria and hospitals/laboratories in the Newcastle area.
Saving lives…
In critical situations, blood or other medical items need to be delivered urgently in order to save a patient’s life. Blood Bikes Cumbria, with their distinctive livery and narrow profile, can quickly get through busy traffic to reach their destination. For bulky items, or in extreme weather conditions. We use cars to ensure our service is available every day of the year.
Saving money for the NHS…
Outside normal office hours, hospitals normally rely on taxis or couriers to transfer urgent medical supplies and samples etc. between hospitals and other sites. Blood Bike groups, across the country, offer to carry out this service free of charge, ensuring the limited resources of the NHS can be used where it makes a difference. Blood Bikes Cumbria funding comes entirely from charitable donations and the service is provided solely by volunteers, giving their own free time to help others.
Sponsors needed…
We are always looking for support from local businesses that have the vision to see the benefits of our service. When an organisation sponsors us their name will also appear on all our literature as supporters.
Volunteers needed…
We are always looking for volunteers who can offer their spare time to help us grow and carry on our service whatever time you have; a few hours or a few days every month there will be something for you to do. Members will be expected to conduct at least one duty, per calendar month. To comply with the terms of our insurance cover riders and drivers need to have a qualification in advanced riding/driving.
📰 Latest News…
Gala Dinner
A Great Night On Friday 18th October 2024 Blood Bikes Cumbria held a Gala Dinner to celebrate the...
New Patron
Meet our New Patron – Steph Finnon Steph Finnon is an award winning journalist and broadcaster and...
It’s about saving lives and saving money…
Blood Bikes Cumbria provides a free out-of-hours transport service, 365 days of the year, transporting urgently needed blood, medication, samples and other medical requirements between North Cumbrian hospitals and the blood transfusion bank in the north east. We also supply the Great North Air Ambulance Service with blood for their blood-on-board service every day of the week regardless of weather conditions.
This is all accomplished by volunteers that give up their time to help. No one in the group gets paid. We have a dedicated fleet of liveried vehicles to carry out emergency transfers which are also equipped blue lights and two tones, should they be required.
All volunteers that wish to ride motorcycles have to undergo special training for health and safety, a riding assessment and hold a current advanced riding certificate to ride for us. We also have dedicated dispatchers/shift controllers that take the calls and allocate the work.
We are looking for support from local business that has the vision to see the benefits of our service. When an organisation sponsors us they will receive a certificate of appreciation and coverage on our platforms.
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Our Supporters
We have a whole raft of new and recent supporters that deserve to be commended for their time and generosity. By way of a simple ‘thank you’ the least we can do is display their logos on this page and hope that you may one day do business with them.
Without their support we wouldn’t be able to offer our services. New partners are always welcome.
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Meet our New Patron – Steph Finnon
Steph Finnon is an award winning journalist and broadcaster and has worked in the radio industry for the last 20 years. She’s been a newsreader, reporter and now presenter and has covered some of the biggest news stories in the last two decades. Steph is the daytime presenter on BBC Radio Cumbria and is also the voice introducing the TV news on BBC One each day in the North East and Cumbria’.
