Welcome to Join for Joel

In May 2009 The Anthony Nolan Trust launched an appeal asking people to join the bone marrow register in memory of Joel Picker-Spence, from Farndon who was just 6 years old when he lost his 4-year battle to leukaemia. A bone marrow donor match was found for him by The Anthony Nolan Trust, but he was too ill to receive a transplant.

Every 21 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with a potentially life threatening blood disorder, such as leukaemia, where often the only chance of a full cure is to have a bone marrow transplant. The Anthony Nolan Trust is a charity dedicated to saving the lives of people suffering from these disorders and they run the UK's largest and most successful bone marrow register, and are responsible for finding matches for all patients in need of bone marrow transplants.

Our aim is to assist the Anthony Nolan Trust to spread the awareness of the bone marrow register, and to help organise and publicise bone marrow register drive events in the Nottinghamshire area as a permanent memorial to Joel

2,836 People have now joined the Bone Marrow Register in Joel's memory since august 2008.

Hannah Harrild joined the register in 2008 - you can read her story here

 

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