Monday, July 11, 2011

Donor Desk

National Transplant has now ended and I think I managed to do a few things at least.  I emailed every person in the building at work with some chat about organ donation and ways to sign up.  I went to a pub quiz last Monday and we called the team Live Life Then Give Life :-)  Finally we had the organ donor desk at St Enoch on Friday.  We put in a good shift from 9am-5pm but I think it was worth it!  Gregg and Kirsty's wee cousin Caitlin also helped out which was fantastic.  We had 43 people sign up on the spot and give us the forms back to post and we also gave away many leaflets.  LLTGL had made rail card holders (or oyster card holders if you are in London!) as a give away, which had information about organ donation as an insert.  These went down well and at least its the sort of thing someone might read later and won't just throw in the bin.   Overall the response was positive and we chatted to some interesting people.  We met a lady who runs a student magazine who is going to get in touch, which would be an good contact to have.  One of the donor family coordinators came down for a couple of hours, so that was helpful and another good contact to have made.    To save me uploading pictures from the day visit the Team Glasgow blog where Victoria has already uploaded them :-)

The Evening Times came down to the event and took some pictures and there was an article in Saturdays paper. Victoria has a readable copy scanned on her blog.



To end the week I will leave you with the link to SIGN UP  - although I am sure most of my readers are already on board.

p.s I will be back soon with pics from my weekend at Stef's wedding...

1 comment:

Anne said...

Hi, well done all of you. Sounds like you had a very productive day! Sorry we missed you at the weekend but I am sure you had a great time at the wedding. Looking forward to seeing the photos! Will catch up soon. Have a good week lol Anne xxx