Today we retired Octagon, (centre of the photograph with the three bikes), from active service and our volunteers almost had a tear in their eyes.

While Octagon may be retiring for active service she is going to be an ambassador for Northumbria Blood Bikes and NABB at the Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield.

In addition we have also been invited to the opening of this new exhibition and Blood Bike Volunteers will get in for free any time of the year (just need to show ID cards).

Here’s a bit of Octagon’s history:

Today we celebrate our fourth National Blood Bikes Awareness Day and we focus this year on working alongside other groups and organisations.

Northumbria Blood Bikes is bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.

Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores awarded to local community projects. 
Three groups in every Tesco region have been shortlisted to receive the cash award and shoppers are being invited to head along to Tesco stores to vote for who they think should take away the top grant.
Northumbria Blood Bikes is one of the groups on the shortlist.

A quote from Helen Keller perfectly describes how the work of our volunteers’ enables our charity to operate: “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

As #VolunteersWeek comes to an end we would like to thank all of our dedicated volunteers, and their families, as without them we would be nothing.

If you’ve read our ‘Why I volunteer’ articles over the past 7 days and have been inspired to join our team please visit: www.northumbriabloodbikes.org.uk/support/volunteer