Miles and his parents standing in front of a Christmas tree

Give patients
more moments
that matter

How your gift today can help save lives

  • £25 could buy 13 of the cheek swab kits we use to tissue type potential lifesavers.
  • £40 could add another potential lifesaver to the stem cell register, helping to give someone another chance to live.
  • £100 could go towards funding groundbreaking medical research into new treatments and therapies to give people more time with their loved ones.

You could be the person someone’s looking for

Someone in urgent need of a stem cell transplant.  

Someone who needs another chance to live.

Your stem cells – and yours alone – could be the ones that save them.

How? It starts with a swab.

Young male stem cell donor in hospital bed
Ava and her mum smiling and looking at a mobile phone

Our research: Unlocking new ways to treat every patient

Research has been our strength from the very start when Shirley Nolan took the groundbreaking step of establishing the world’s first register of volunteer bone marrow donors. But now is the time to push this pioneering spirit even further.

 

A researcher examining a stem cell sample in a lab setting
Anthony and his mother, Shirley Nolan

Driven by Shirley’s dream: our mission to save more lives every day 

Our founder Shirley Nolan had a dream that no child would die like her son Anthony, waiting for a donor to save them. Over fifty years on, that dream is still our guiding light – and our work gives four people another chance of life every day, matching donors with patients whose best chance of more time is a stem cell transplant.  

No one should be kept waiting for a lifesaving transplant that could give them more time. We know we can keep cutting time to transplant, keep accelerating scientific progress, keep moving faster and win that race against time. We will always act and respond to each unanswered challenge we face. Because every moment counts.