We're Birmingham Marrow, the student branch of a national charity called Anthony Nolan. We spend our time helping to dispel the myths of bone marrow donation and convincing you lovely people to join the register of potential donors at our sign up sessions. 

Here at university, we give people the chance to join the register of lifesavers by coming along to a sign up session and providing a saliva sample. That's it. Done. You're now on the register and will only be asked to donate your bone marrow if your DNA matches that of someone (anywhere in the world) who is suffering from a form of blood cancer. Joining the register and being asked to donate bone marrow is a unique opportunity to be able to genuinely save someone's life by curing their blood cancer! 

As well as raising awareness and signing people to the register of potential life savers, we also run training sessions for people interested in joining Marrow as one of our counsellors. Volunteering with Marrow is very rewarding and is a great way to meet new people, it also looks great on your C.V. 
We also do lots of fundraising for Anthony Nolan, for example we have a team of runners in this year's Birmingham half marathon. We are always looking for lovely people to help us bring in funds for Anthony Nolan.

If you want more news about either joining the bone marrow register or joining Marrow and helping save lives please email us or leave a message on our wall!