Northampton Town Football Club are calling for new bone marrow donors to sign up to the Anthony Nolan register when they host a special recruitment event at their stadium on Thursday 20th September.
We’re working with The Cobblers to support local Bugbrooke resident Claire Evans, whose father has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer and needs an urgent bone marrow transplant to save his life.
Cobblers midfielder Ben Harding says, “I can’t imagine what it must be like to be told that you have blood cancer and you need a bone marrow transplant to save your life – but that you can only have that transplant if Anthony Nolan can find you a matching bone marrow donor. It’s simple: if more people join the register, Anthony Nolan can provide more matches and save more lives.”
The Cobblers have supported Anthony Nolan since “Matt’s Match”, a campaign to find a bone marrow donor for 15-year-old local boy Matt Herbert, who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2009. The Cobblers held a similar recruitment drive as part of the campaign, which saw over 1,000 new donors sign up to the register.
The recruitment event will take place in the restaurant at Sixfields Stadium on Thursday 20th September from 5pm-8pm.
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