About Blood Bikes Wales
We are a 100% voluntary organisation, which provides a completely free courier service to the NHS delivering blood, samples medicines, donated human milk etc across Wales. See www. bloodbikes. wales for more information
Blood Bikes Wales Description
Our emergency service to the NHS is provided free of charge and is funded entirely by public donations and sponsorship. We are often referred to as blood bikes but do much more, transporting test samples, documents, X-rays, human breast milk, and other medical supplies.
We cover the whole of Wales, providing services to all NHS Trusts with regional groups based in Newport, Bridgend, Swansea, Pembroke, Aberystwyth, Bangor and Wrexham.
We welcome all volunteers and anything you can do to help will be gratefully received. We need fundraisers, controllers, administrators as well as riders.
There are many roles to be fulfilled within the charity from fundraisers collecting outside supermarkets to controllers answering the phones and dispatching riders to the riders themselves. Training for fundraisers /controllers etc is provided free of charge however, to be a rider for Blood Bikes Wales you need to be 25 or over and have two years riding experience. You will need an advanced rider qualification which the charity is unable to totally fund but we have observers from both IAM and RoSPA in our membership who will be able to help you. Please email membership@bloodbikeswales.org. uk for more information.
Volunteering for Blood Bikes Wales is worthwhile cause, saving the NHS in Wales hundreds of thousands of pounds every year that can be released for patient care.
Hours of Operation vary between regions, but we aim to be operating from 7: 00pm on Friday night to 12 midnight on Sunday and similar times on bank holidays at a minimum with some areas operating during the week and a dedicated service offered to transport frozen breast milk to high dependency baby units between Monday to Friday.
Volunteers are the lifeblood of our charity, If you want to volunteer for Blood Bikes Wales, please go to http://www. bloodbikeswales.org. uk and click on 'contact us'.