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Congratulations to our fellow blood bike group, the Midland Freewheelers on achieving the King's Award for Voluntary Service. ... See MoreSee Less

3 weeks ago

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Congratulations 👏

Congratulations!

Well done guys

Wonderful, many congratulations to you all.

Well deserved

well done

With the ever-increasing need to support the NHS in caring for their patients, the demands upon the #Charity grow each year. #SSCBB needs to grow to meet this increasing demand. To do so, we need more #Volunteers, whether that be in the form of riders, fundraisers or controllers. If you are interested in joining us, take a look at our website to learn more! ... See MoreSee Less

3 weeks ago

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For the past year a very special group of people led by SSCBB member Chris B have been planning a major fundraising event for us - a Black Tie Dinner Dance. The group - Chris, Katy, Zella, Sara and Paula pulled it off 'big time' and in one memorable evening in September raised just over £25,000 for our charity. A new bike will be purchased early next year with these proceeds and we look forward to hearing what name they have chosen for the bike. Several of our members and a blood bike attended the event.
Chris and his team and SSCBB want to send a huge 'thank you' to over 50 local businesses who supported the event, through advertising in the brochure, sponsoring the champagne reception and donating auction prizes; without whom they would not have been able to reach the amazing total. Also many of the businesses they approached hadn't heard of Blood Bikes, so it was also spreading awareness within the business community.
Pictured are the amazing people who did this for us and a pic of our members who attended. ... See MoreSee Less

4 weeks ago

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Fantastic!!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻outstanding

Fantastic

Top work team, solid effort

That's an amazing achievement as well as spreading maximum awareness 👏 👍

Well done!!

Awesome, well done.

Amazing 👏

Fantastic achievement

Fantastic effort all round

Very pleased to have been part of the fundraising for such a worthy cause.

A great night.

With the ever-increasing need for the #NHS to save money but without compromising #PatientCare, the demands upon the #Charity grow each year. SSCBB needs to grow to meet this increasing demand. Find out how you can help here: ... See MoreSee Less

4 weeks ago

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A change of audience for Speaker Team member Dave S. when he teamed up with rider Andy W. on a visit to the 1st Priorslee and St Georges Beavers group.

Lots of questions, lots of colouring and lots of 'potential' new riders who sat on bloodbike Rainbow. ... See MoreSee Less

4 weeks ago

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We'd like to introduce you to Wilf, one of our most recently recruited riders who had his first couple of 'shouts' this week. Wilf is retired and is a bit special to us at SSCBB because he is the 1,000th applicant to join our charity since we started operations in 2014. Welcome Wilf, good to have you on board. ... See MoreSee Less

4 weeks ago

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Good luck Wilf. Great organisation and good to be volunteering.

Welcome Wilf, great to have you on board!

Best wishes

Welcome wilf …. Part of the 999 big family

Welcome Aboard Wilf, Best Wishes from us all at Blood Bikes Wales (Pembrokeshire) and Good Luck. 👏👏🍀🍾

Welcome to the team👏

Welcome Wilf. Great guy he volunteered to help us out by doing a double shift on his first time out !! Thanks Wilf

Welcome Wilf

All the best Wilf. Thankyou for volunteering.

Well done Wilf 👏

Welcome aboard Wilf..! 👍

Welcome

Hi 👋

Congrats and well done Wilf.

Welcome Wilf

Welcome onboard Wilf.

Welcome on board mate

Welcome to the team wilf

Will and I met at Wellington garage yesterday evening. He was finishing his over-run first shift and I was returning Rainbow after supporting a beaver scout talk. Welcome aboard Wilf.

Brendon Hill just a thought!

We should call him ‘M’ 😄

#itswhatwedo

Can hardly believe this was 3 years ago on 7th November 2020, an amazing weekend which resulted in coverage on BBC Midlands Today and helped so many vulnerable people - so proud of what we achieved.

This weekend is OPERATION CARE as we are working in partnership with the NHS Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group to deliver 200 much needed Pulse Oximeters to Care Homes. The devices have been provided by the NHS to help monitor the physical health of people in care homes who have Covid-19 symptoms or have tested positive by measuring their pulse and the level of oxygen in their blood. Some 28 of our volunteers, riders and controllers are involved in the distribution of the oximeters .
Alison Massey, Interim Programmes and Redesign Lead Urgent Care at CCG says “Learning from the first wave of the virus identified that blood oxygen levels are a good indicator of how poorly a person is, we are incredibly grateful for the support from the Blood Bike volunteers. Giving our care homes pulse oximeters will mean more people can be safely monitored in their home and the readings, which take seconds, can help a doctor or clinician to quickly assess if they are deteriorating and need to be admitted to hospital.”
SSCBB Chair, Jeremy C says "We are delighted to be able to support the Shropshire CCG in this time of need. Making coordinated deliveries to 160 care homes over two days is the largest single job we have undertaken so far and clearly demonstrates the flexibility, responsiveness and professionalism our volunteers provide.” Well done everyone involved. #itswhatwedo ... See MoreSee Less

4 weeks ago

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Operating 24/7 and occupying a central location, at #SSCBB we undertake a number of long distance deliveries! These deliveries are made on behalf of the North West Human Milk Bank, University of Birmingham (Faecal Matter transplants) and other #BloodBike groups along with their local hospitals! To find out more about our charity and what we do, please visit our website here: ... See MoreSee Less

4 weeks ago

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Love being a small part of this charity

Small Dot ??? I would suggest you play a much bigger part

SSCBB truly appreciates the support and donations from the Staffordshire Masonry, their target being the funding of a new blood bike for early next year. We have received several generous donations from various lodges in recent months and pictured here is the handover of a substantial £4000 cheque from the Staffordshire Provincial Grand Stewards Lodge. Our rider Phil B receiving the cheque from rider Mark F. Thank you very, very much. ... See MoreSee Less

1 month ago

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The generosity demonstrated by the various lodges makes our lives at the point of delivery so much easier, thank you so much.

Wow !!! How wonderful ! Thank u

We look forward to supporting Shropshire • Staffordshire • Cheshire Blood Bikes to enable a new bike to be purchased ASAP. 🤝👏👍

Apparently the masons donate absolutely loads to charity, fair play to them and thank you for all you do.

A generous donation to a very worthy cause ,thank you to all who help and all who perform this service.

Good effort team

Well done all 👍

Money well spent on quality, reliable equipment to ensure you can deliver an excellent service and keep your volunteers safe and proud to work for you! Ride safe and excellent job!

1 month ago

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We currently have 15 liveried blood bikes, situated strategically across the three counties in secure locations, often at fire stations or within hospital grounds. Many of our bikes have been funded by the generosity of organisations, Trusts and companies but the running costs are met by our own fundraising efforts 🏍 All our #BloodBikes have names, often associated with a person who has influenced our charity in some way! #SSCBB 🙂 Read the story behind each of our bikes here: ... See MoreSee Less

1 month ago

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Fabulous! That's the bike my brother-in-law donated.

This morning Cheshire Lead Steve H went to church !!!!
He was collecting a £500 donation made by the good people of St Mary’s in Handbidge in Chester. After inviting the Rector, Rik, to try out Cheshire Freemason for size, it seemed only fair that Steve should try out Rik’s means of transport in return.
Once again, a big thank you to St Mary’s for your generosity and hospitality today. ... See MoreSee Less

1 month ago

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Last week Colin C-W went along to Middlewich Classic Car and Bike Club where he was presented with a check for £400 from their Chairman, Jim Bean. The donation was from the profits of their show in July, an event that the Cheshire team attend every year at the request of the club. A massive “Thank You !” from all of us at SSCBB ... See MoreSee Less

Awww how lovely !

love this 🥰

Bless you

Well done St Mary's

Shropshire • Staffordshire • Cheshire Blood Bikes Shropshire • Staffordshire • Cheshire Blood Bikes is feeling thankful.

1 month ago

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AND THE WINNER IS ??????

Shropshire area members gathered last night at the Hollywood Bowl in Shrewsbury to compete for the SSCBB Bowling Shield.

A practice game first then down to business!

Chris H. became the new Champion, and was duly presented with the shield by Shropshire Area Lead, Francis C.

Thoroughly enjoyable night was had by all. ... See MoreSee Less

1 month ago

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Congratulations Chris x

Last year (2022), our fleet travelled 321,039 miles and that involves replacing quite a few tyres so we were delighted when North Staffordshire Round Table Lodge No. 8355 gave us £500 towards some new tyres for our bikes based in North Staffs. SSCBB rider Phil B received the cheque from Worshipful Master Pete Nacson (Head of the Lodge). Many thanks. ... See MoreSee Less

1 month ago

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So pleased to be able to support this amazing organisation in some way🙏. Great to hear about the work the team does from Phil too. Thank you to all at Shropshire • Staffordshire • Cheshire Blood Bikes 👏👏

Great work, words can not say enough, thank you.

Thank you 🙏

An absolute pleasure to donate to this very important Charity operating in our geographic area. Thank YOU Shropshire • Staffordshire • Cheshire Blood Bikes!! 👏👏 the charitable side of Freemasons shines yet again. North Staffordshire Round Table Lodge No.8355

A big Thank you to all who help and contribute in any way in this service.

Francis C. and Tony L. met up yesterday afternoon at Ma Baker’s Cafe, Whitchurch to relay urgent needed donor breast milk from Chester Hospital’s Milk Bank to Worcester Hospital’s Neonatal Unit. Well done guys and thank you. #itswhatwedo ... See MoreSee Less

1 month ago

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Well done guys

Well done to you both x

Best wishes to the baby and family too 😊

Thought Ma Bakers was a good rendezvous point. Not had any complaints x

Dot's a star👍👏👏

We have a team of 30 speakers located throughout #Shropshire, #Staffordshire and #Cheshire, raising awareness of the work carried out by the #BloodBike charities 📅📖 Our Speaker Team will probably deliver over 160 talks this year with bookings still being requested! Find out more about our charity talks here: ... See MoreSee Less

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If reading about the work we do has made you think about #GivingBlood take a look at our website to see how easy it can be to do so! ... See MoreSee Less

1 month ago

If reading about the work we do has made you think about #GivingBlood take a look at our website to see how easy it can be to do so! https://ssbbgroup.org.uk/donate/give-blood/

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Vice Chair Lynne was recently presented with a £500 cheque from our member Mark F on behalf of the Staffordshire Masonic Clay Shooting Association who meet monthly and spend the morning trying to hit clays and have a great time of friendship and brotherhood. Each person that attends makes a small payment to participate, this builds up over the year and on the recommendation of one of their members, the Staffordshire Provincial Mentor, the club unanimously voted to make the SSCBB their new charity. They are a small club and all the work they do at meetings, shooting competitions etc is all voluntary so any money they receive is pure profit so in a small way they hope to be able to support the SSCBB in the future with further donations.
Our thanks to you all for your generosity. ... See MoreSee Less

1 month ago

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Many congratulations 👍

Wow that’s brilliant x

So kind !

Nice one Mark

Shropshire • Staffordshire • Cheshire Blood Bikes our donation from North Staffordshire Round Table Lodge No.8355 is also heading in your direction 👍👏

Steve Watts