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Hi SAUers, SAU at a National level have decided to have a 'give blood' drive. This will be a chance for you to give something back - 1 in 3 people need blood in their lives, and I think we have a responsibility to give blood as (generally) young, healthy individuals, who care about others :)

Obviously there are some limitations with people who have had tattoos within the last 6 months, have lived for more than 6 months in the UK, and various other things which can make one ineligible, but even if you can't give, come along say hi, and support the cause.

So, the format is, we all rock up at Regent Arcade in the the city at 9:30am Sat 26th Oct and do it as a group. I have booked us in as a group under the banner of Skylines Australia, and this will be a bit of a National competition to see which state is the best and can get the most donors on board.

If you haven't given blood before, don't panic - it really is easy and mostly painless except for a tiny pinch.

The upside is that you get free food and drinks at the Blood Bank (there is always a wide variety of things there like professionally made sandwiches, chocolate bars, biscuits, iced coffee, soft drinks etc etc).

Also, if you park in the Hungry Jacks carpark, you get your ticket stamped by the blood bank and your parking is FREE!

So, who is in? Get behind this guys, and give something back to the community. You just never know whose life you may save. SAU Qld have already started giving last year:

http://www.donateblood.com.au/who-can-give/club-red/view-group-tally?group_id=6148

The SAU:SA Club will also be heavily promoting this among our paid members, so hopefully between the Club and the public forums we can get some great numbers!

Confirmed attendees

Nightcrawler

Tony's bro

Panzer

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So, seriously, 135 views and 3 confirmed attendees? Cmon people - I am amazed people are so selfish. What if it was your Mum that needed blood and she died because there was none? Or your girlfriend, or best mate? They are so low on blood, this seriously could happen.

I would put myself up but recently coming back from overseas and other circumstances do not allow for this. This is a good cause and people should definitely get behind this drive.

Would donate but its been only 4 weeks since I donated for the Navys inter-ADF competition and Redcross make you wait 3 months.

That aside, if anyone hasn't donated before, give it a shot. Its 30 minutes of your time and can save a life.

-D

C'mon guys. You can't let QLD, nsw or vic have more donors can you?

Doesn't matter how many donors each state gets, just that the more people the club gets the better

But don't feel bad if NSW gets more :D

Doesn't matter how many donors each state gets, just that the more people the club gets the better

But don't feel bad if NSW gets more :D

It's a competition. It's always a competition. :P

Nah, seriously it's a great cause! Also, I think we're ahead of the nsw guys. ;)

  • 4 weeks later...

Well, sadly since I have not had any further volunteers, I am going to cancel this event :( ... just spoke to the blood service now. Hopefully Lurch, and Tony's bro (and his friend) will go give blood somewhere on their own, so at least the whole thing wasn't in vain!

Well, the thing is that I give blood regularly and have actually been matched up with an individual that has cancer - so I normally give 3 months to the day, which is later this week. My blood is then couriered to their hospital and it is given to them as part of their treatment. So by giving Saturday week with an SAU group, I am actually letting that cancer patient down (somewhat). We have a perfect blood type match, and we also match to a closer level with various components of what makes up blood. It is quite a rare thing. Plus my wife is away interstate for the weekend, so I am home with my 5 year old and 2 year old - so it was going to be a pain in the butt to either bring them or find a babysitter.

So if we only have a few people (who hopefully are likely to just go and give blood from this point forward, as it is a good thing to do), then it is not worth me letting down my blood match and having to deal with what to do with the kids. For a decent sized group I was willing to make the sacrifice, but given the sad response out of literally thousands of SAU forum members in SA, and nearly 100 SAU:SA club members, to be honest I am more than a bit disheartened.

Either way, I have now cancelled our booking so as to not waste the blood banks time (Saturday morning spots are prime time for them, so better they book in others who will use the spots).

But if anyone is keen on donating and is a bit concerned about going for their first time, I am more than happy for people to come along when I donate. I can advise of when that will be if anyone wants to know. I normally go to Pelican Plaza at Ridgehaven fyi.

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