Such a fantastic Christmas present arrived today for Blood Bikes Manchester in the shape of a new van. The Mercedes Vito has been kindly purchased and donated by Dave Mylett, one of our new volunteers. This donation will complete the fleet and put us in the best position ever to assist the NHS with their transportation needs. The van, working alongside the 5 motorcycles and 2 cars will not only be call out ready for larger consignments or bad weather, but will enable us to tow our display trailer to events in and around the Northwest and promote the work we do whilst raising valuable funds.
Dave is no stranger when it comes to donating vehicles to Blood Bikes, having previously owned Manchester Medical Services which operated a fleet of ambulances and response vehicles, he donated in the past a couple of vehicles that were no longer required to his business.
Paul Redfern, Chairman of Blood Bikes Manchester ‘I can’t believe that Dave has bought this vehicle for us which will help us out immensely in the future, an unbelievable act of kindness so close to Christmas and I really can’t express my thanks to him enough’.
Fundraising has now started to try to raise £1500 which will pay for a towbar, the vehicle livery and call out ready equipment. We are hoping to put the van in full service by the end of February 2019 but it will be emergency ready by next week in case we have really bad weather over the Christmas period.
Blood Bikes Manchester volunteers will be offering a 24 hour service to the NHS and Hospices from Friday 21st December to Wednesday 2nd January all done completely free of charge enabling funds saved in transportation costs to be used elsewhere, for example patient care or the purchase of specialist equipment.
Donate to our Van fund
Dont forget if you would like to donate to Blood Bikes Manchester, just use the facebook donate button, the QR Code on the front page of the website, Just Giving or direct to paypal at paypal@bloodbikesmanchester.co.uk If we could get 1500 people all donating £1 then the van will be completely funded and ready to go.
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Thank you goes to Colin Davison, Julian Davison and Robert Jones for kicking off our fundraising campaign, we are so grateful and wish you a very Merry Christmas from all the team at BBM
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