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Following our #inspiredbymillie advent calendar, we’ll be sharing three stories from people who signed up to the register during Millie’s original patient appeal, and went on to donate stem cells.

Neil Gray, 36, is an architect from Portsoy. He heard about Millie’s campaign when he was at university at Aberdeen, and went along to a recruitment event on the campus on 2003.

Following our #inspiredbymillie advent calendar, we’ll be sharing three stories from people who signed up to the register during Millie’s original patient appeal, and went on to donate stem cells.

Owen Smith, 37, from Edinburgh, is a furniture designer. His cousin was a good friend of Millie’s, and his mum convinced him to go along to a recruitment event in Inverurie in 2003.

Five years later, he was called up to donate to a stranger and he didn’t hesitate. But it only hit home what  a difference he’d made when he got a life-changing letter from his recipient…

Following our #inspiredbymillie advent calendar, we’ll be sharing three stories from people who signed up to the register during Millie’s original patient appeal, and went on to donate stem cells.

‘It was awe-inspiring to think the bag of cells at the end of my bed was a life-line for someone else’

A school in Dudley in the West Midlands is raising vital funds for us throughout this academic year.

The High Arcal School kicked off their fundraising with a Christmas Jumper Day for its staff and students on Friday 19th December 2014, and they raised £240, which will enable us to add two new donors to the register.

Four guys from Southport have raised nearly a whopping £3,000 for Anthony Nolan by cycling from Southport Pier to Blackpool Pier in the depths of winter in support of Sam Wright.

The team were made aware of Anthony Nolan by friends Damian and Sally whose son Sam suffers with a rare genetic condition which affects his immune system and makes him highly vulnerable to infections and viruses. Tragically, Sam’s sister, Ella, died of the same condition four years ago. 

Anthony Nolan has been selected as the new charity partner of www.skiddle.com, the UK's biggest what's on guide and a leading primary ticket agency.

Through their checkout donation schemes, their customers help raise thousands of pounds for charity – most recently they generated more than £14k for Macmillan Cancer Support.

With each ticket purchase, customers are given the opportunity to add a donation and now, every penny will go direct to Anthony Nolan.

A family from Telford have launched a campaign and a charity single to raise funds and to get more potential lifesavers on the Anthony Nolan register, after finding a bone marrow match for their daughter Lauren – who is their ‘ray of sunshine’.

Thanks to a mystery donor, eight year old Lauren is due to have her potentially life-saving transplant after Christmas.

The family of Hollie Clark have launched a year of fundraising for Anthony Nolan in memory of their ‘blue eyed girl’, as they prepare for their first Christmas since she sadly died of leukaemia in November.

The Clark family from Cardiff are asking everyone who backed Hollie’s ‘pants on your head’ appeal for a bone marrow donor to now join their fundraising efforts, so that blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan can help give others like Hollie the chance of life.

‘Read a book, save a life’,
urges Anthony Nolan as it releases limited edition paperback
 
Due to unprecedented demand, we're releasing  limited edition paperback copies of our first ever published novel, Open Links.
 

A newly married medic is desperately searching for a matching bone marrow donor so that she can have a potentially life-saving transplant.
 
Tania Ba-Obeid, 32, from North London, is battling lymphoma for the third time and has now been told that she needs to have a bone marrow transplant within the next few months.