{"id":2372,"date":"2018-11-28T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2018-11-28T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:47:27","slug":"volunteering-with-bath-marrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/2018\/11\/28\/volunteering-with-bath-marrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering with Bath Marrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that I think is great about our university is the number of different student groups. Sports, societies and charities; there's literally something for everyone. This year, as part of my 50 hours of volunteering for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/campaigns\/gold-scholarship-programme\/\">Gold Scholarship programme<\/a>, I decided to get involved with Bath Marrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthonynolan.org\/8-ways-you-could-save-life\/volunteer-us\/marrow\">Marrow<\/a> is the student body of Anthony Nolan.\u00a0This charity matches incredible individuals willing to donate their stem cells to people with blood cancer, who desperately need lifesaving transplants.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some statistics for you...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 2,000 people in the UK are in need of a bone marrow or stem cell transplant every year.<\/li>\n<li>75% of UK patients won\u2019t find a matching donor in their families. So they turn to organisations like Anthony Nolan to find them an unrelated donor.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, only 69% of patients can find the best possible match from a stranger, and this drops dramatically to 20% if you're a patient from a black, Asian or ethnic minority background.<\/li>\n<li>Only 2% of people in the UK are registered as stem cell donors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthony Nolan recruits people aged 16-30 as they are likely to make the best donors and it costs \u00a340 to sign someone up to the register. This makes universities a great place to scout out new donors!<\/p>\n<p>I started off by attending a volunteer training session run by the Bath Marrow committee. I learnt some general information about the work that Anthony Nolan does, and then went on to be trained in how to sign up new donors.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I helped out at the first donor recruitment event of the year, \"Marroween\". I spent the afternoon approaching students to tell them a bit about Anthony Nolan and trying to convince them to join the stem cell register to potentially save the life of someone with blood cancer. This was a really scary thing to do at first, but it felt amazing once I got into it. Over the afternoon I signed up 5 people and it's pretty satisfying to know that those 5 people could potentially go on to save 5 lives.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2372 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/2018\/11\/28\/volunteering-with-bath-marrow\/screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14-31-36\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"802\" height=\"806\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.36.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.36.png 802w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.36-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.36-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.36-768x772.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.36-214x215.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2383'>\n\t\t\t\tHelping out at a donor recruitment event\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/2018\/11\/28\/volunteering-with-bath-marrow\/screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14-31-57\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.57.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.57.png 490w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.57-184x300.png 184w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.31.57-132x215.png 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2384'>\n\t\t\t\tWe even featured on the student&#8217;s union instagram story #famous\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This year I am also the events officer for the Baking Appreciation Society, so I organised a collaboration with Bath Marrow. We held a bake sale at the university which raised \u00a366 for Anthony Nolan! I'm a bit of a catastrophe when it comes to baking, but thankfully I had my wonderful flatmates and members of the Baking Society to help me out!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2382\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-27-at-23.10.04.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2382\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-27-at-23.10.04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-27-at-23.10.04.png 454w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-27-at-23.10.04-170x300.png 170w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-27-at-23.10.04-122x215.png 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yummy bakes made by the Baking Appreciation Society to raise funds for Anthony Nolan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have a personal connection to Anthony Nolan so it's felt really great to do some volunteering for them. Doing any kind of volunteering is always empowering, but doing something that I feel so passionate about has been amazing. I've seen the impact that this charity can have on a person's life and it feels really special to be a small part in making that happen.<\/p>\n<p>If you're aged between 16 and 30, find out how you can be a lifesaver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthonynolan.org\/8-ways-you-could-save-life\/donate-your-stem-cells\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2385\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.32.41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2385 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.32.41-300x273.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.32.41-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.32.41-768x700.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.32.41-236x215.png 236w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-28-at-14.32.41.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I've joined the stem cell register, you can too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that I think is great about our university is the number of different student groups. 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