SERV
SERV - also known as the 'Blood Runners'
We are a charitable organisation that delivers blood products to the emergency and accident hospitals across Southern England at night free of charge whenever and wherever it's urgently needed.
SERV is a Registered Charity (#284455) run by dedicated volunteer motorcyclists and drivers who give their time and petrol to do their bit using their bikes and cars to help others who need emergency supplies of blood.
SERV provides a service that has saved many lives. The volunteers fund SERV at their own expense and by donations - so if you are looking for a worthy charity to support please contact us Remember, it's not just the volunteers who save lives, it could also be you !
Blood On The Move
ITV Meridian's regional news programme featured an excellent article about SERV on Monday 1st February. It showed the work done by the Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire & Berkshire team and included interviews with staff at Reading Hospital.
The programme's introduction by reporter Penny Silvester states "They have become another emergency service and they are saving lives. A team of motorbike riders has been spreading its net across the South to answer the call when a hospital urgently needs medical supplies. The bikers are volunteers who are on standby during the night and at weekends to deliver urgent blood and baby milk to hospital. And they do it for free."
See the programme at the ITV Meridian website.
SERV - always on duty!
On Sunday 9th August 2009 at approx 16:30, Dean Wickham (SERV Chairman) was travelling on the M25 anti-clockwise between Jct 10-9 whilst representing the charity, riding one of our marked emergency blood bikes, when he came to the aid of stranded motorist. The following letter of commendation from the Highways Agency describes what happened.
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