Leni's took part in a 10k run in Richmond park on the 19th April 2012, thank you to everyone who attended and supported.
FINAL TOTAL RAISED IS : £4,400.50
Chance to Live explains how the money will help:
'All funds raised will go towards
fulfilling the charity’s objectives of bringing awareness to the public
(locally and internationally) of the importance of registering to be a bone
marrow donor and saving stem cell cords. We are a registered charity and
all our staff including directors are volunteers so we do not waste any funds;
even the premises is rent free.
We utilise the funds for
publicity about what people can do to save lives through printing literature
such as banners, leaflets, and large posters that go into public and private
venues ranging from GP Practises, hospitals, schools, universities, and even
launderettes or fast food café’s. We campaign to influential people asking them
to make a public stance so that they can help raise awareness and also to other
organisations. As an example, we are currently trying to campaign to raise
awareness about freezing blood cords and making it free for the public as a
choice.
We also do bone marrow campaigns
and use funds for the campaigns including provision of banner stands and assist
in sending out bone marrow kits worldwide. Recently we did a campaign at the
East London Women’s Institute as an example and people joined the registry as a
direct result. We have had people join a bone marrow registry locally and as
far away as Mexico.
Finally we use the funds to keep
our online presence active and proactively encourage volunteers to spend their
time with the tools, know-how and campaign materials to host their own fully
fledged local bone marrow campaigns. Such campaigns have already taken place in
London, New York and Texas and we working towards more local and international
campaigns to reach our goal of substantially increasing the worldwide bone
marrow registries which directly will help saves lives of those desperately in
need.
To this end we are also investing
in our website to give volunteers a capability to host their bone marrow
campaigns through provision of an advanced microsite with tools they can
customise to send a local message into their community and culture, host social
events, write blogs and more. This will really enable volunteers to launch
inspiring local grassroots bone marrow campaigns in every part of the world and
hence raise awareness further through social media and a state of the art
online presence.
In the future, when we are better
funded, we also want to encourage the setup of bone marrow registries in the
many areas of the world where there are none.'
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