Tonight at 7pm our charity will reach its 12th anniversary since our service first went ‘live’.
During that time we have helped at least 135,000 people’s healthcare journeys by providing a service to the NHS and Great North Air Ambulance Service.
We have only been able to do this thanks to the support we receive from our amazing team of volunteers, our service users, our donors and YOU the public. Thank you to each of our supporters!
Our 2025 year in numbers
Our thanks go out to Wooler Parish Council for their donation of £602.20 from their community carol service.
This incredible donation will enable us to complete around 200 jobs. In real terms that’s 200 people’s healthcare journeys we can support and potentially lives saved.
New merchandise launching this Saturday 17th January 2026 at our first fundraising event of the year at M&S Arnison Centre, Durham.
Enamel Blood Bike Keyrings and Pin Badges £3.00 each.
We shall have them available at fundraising events throughout the year.
If you’ve bagged yourself a ballot place for this year’s Great North Run it’s not too late to join team #BloodBikesGNR
Sign up today by visiting:
www.northumbriabloodbikes.org.uk/gnr
Please vote for our charity to be in with a chance of winning a share of £60,000 in this grants round of My Giving Circle.
To vote just click the link below:
And that's a wrap...
Today our volunteers have finished spreading festive cheer to the last of the Children’s Wards we visited in our Blood Bikes Santa Run 2025. Since we began this annual event it has grown year on year thanks to the generosity of those who support it. Back in 2017 we began by supporting one hospital but this year we are dropping off 126 giant Santa bags to 18 different Children’s wards, both in-patient and out-patient, at 12 different hospitals across our region.
Today our volunteers have been spreading some festive cheer to the second of the Children’s Wards we will be visiting in our Blood Bikes Santa Run 2025. Since we began this annual event it has grown year on year thanks to the generosity of those who support it. Back in 2017 we began by supporting one hospital but this year we are dropping off 126 giant Santa bags to 18 different Children’s wards, both in-patient and out-patient, at 12 different hospitals across our region.
Today our volunteers have begun spreading some festive cheer to the first of the Children’s Wards we will be visiting in our Blood Bikes Santa Run 2025. Since we began this annual event it has grown year on year thanks to the generosity of those who support it. Back in 2017 we began by supporting one hospital but this year we are dropping off 126 giant Santa bags to 18 different Children’s wards, both in-patient and out-patient, at 12 different hospitals across our region.
On our Santa Run today we visited Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust:
Relay Alert
Today we took part in another relay. This relay was for urgent samples that needed to be transported from Edinburgh to the RVI in Newcastle. Thanks to Blood Bikes Scotland volunteer Joe and our volunteer Ian.