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The family of a toddler with leukaemia have announced the launch of the first ‘Team Margot Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Awareness Day’.

To mark the first anniversary of Margot Martini’s diagnosis on 7 October 2013, her parents have today said that the first awareness day will take place on 7 October, 2015.

The day is designed to promote awareness of the need for more potential stem cell donors to join the UK and worldwide registers, including the Anthony Nolan register.

The people of Leicester signed up to our register en masse yesterday in the largest event of its kind to help cancer survivor Rik Basra achieve his dream of signing up 1,000 young people to the register in just one day.

Eight local landmarks hosted stations where people signed up in the hope to one day save a life.

The ambitious plan to target 1,000 young people in one day was the latest initiative by Leicestershire police officer and Leukaemia survivor, Rik Basra, and De Montfort University's Square Mile Programme.

A teenager from Hampshire is backing a blood cancer charity’s campaign to hep find more young stem cell donors.
 
Millie Aplin-Haynes joined the Anthony Nolan bone marrow donor register on her 16th birthday after her sister, Kitty, had a bone marrow transplant.
 
Now, she is supporting Anthony Nolan’s ‘Save A Life At 16’ campaign which aims to persuade HMRC to include details about stem cell donation when it writes to young people with their National Insurance numbers ahead of their 16th birthdays.

A teenage life-saver from Colchester is backing our campaign to hep find more young heroes.

In June this year, Celyn Evans, 17, became one of the youngest people in the UK to donate stem cells to a seriously ill stranger.

Now, he is supporting our ‘Save A Life At 16’ campaign which aims to persuade HMRC to include details about stem cell donation when it writes to young people with their National Insurance numbers ahead of their 16th birthdays.

As students arrive at universities during September, Blood Cancer Awareness Month, we're releasing announcing new statistics showing that ournetwork of student volunteer groups – known as Marrow - now recruit 1 in 5 people who go onto donate their stem cells or bone marrow.

Of the 444 Brits who donated their stem cells to an unrelated donor last year, an incredible 105 (23.6%) were recruited by a university Marrow group. That’s 105 lives potentially saved, thanks to these selfless students.

Anthony Nolan is delighted to announce the shortlist of nominees for the Anthony Nolan Supporter Awards.
 
In the year that we celebrate 40 years of saving lives, the Anthony Nolan Supporter Awards are back with a bang to celebrate and recognise our supporters – our way of saying thank you to the people who keep Anthony Nolan going.
 
This year we had an unprecedented volume of nominations this year from Anthony Nolan’s fantastic supporters all over the UK.
 

A community choir from St. Ives in Cambridgeshire is raising vital funds for blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan. The choir is holding a concert on Saturday 4th October at 7.30 in The Free Church, Market Hill, St. Ives, with hopes to raise £300 for Anthony Nolan’s lifesaving work.
 

A mother is battling against the clock to find a matching bone marrow donor who could save her life.

Nikki Braterman, 45, from Brighton, has acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and has been told that a bone marrow transplant offers her best chance of a cure.

However, Nikki’s search for a donor is very complicated. She has an unusual ethnic background and requires a perfect match, due to a medical complication. This is proving hard to find.

The entire community of Leicester is being urged to get behind a record-breaking campaign to sign up 1,000 young people to the Anthony Nolan register in just one day. On October 1st 2014, eight local landmarks will host stations where people can sign-up and save a life.

Some of Leicester's best known faces will join forces with Leicestershire's three universities to encourage local 16-30 year-olds to give a saliva sample and join the register in the hope of saving strangers fighting blood cancer.

Rik Basra's latest initiative

Anthony Nolan has praised the lifesaving legacy of its status as the official charity of the Virgin Money London Marathon and the Virgin Money Charity of the Year.
 
Thanks to the united efforts of marathon runners and Virgin Money staff, the charity has raised £1.4 million in the year that it celebrates its 40th anniversary.
 
The funds will enable Anthony Nolan to recruit 14,000 potentially lifesaving donors onto the bone marrow register.