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293000KM
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35500H
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15400L
Consumed
€665000
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You can simply give a once-off payment or sign up to a monthly donation. Any amount of money helps us do our vital work. For instance:
€10 pays for fuel for a 12 hour shift
€25 pays for oil & filter change
€50 pays for new brake pads
€100 pays for road tax for one bike for a year
€250 pays for a new set of tyres
Blood Bikes East's important work is 100% fuelled by sponsorships and donations. Our running costs are approximately €1,700 per month and like any charity, if our funds run dry we simply cannot operate. But most importantly, we are ALL volunteers, so every penny you donate goes straight to helping the hospitals and the people in the east of Ireland.
Other Ways You Can Help
Blood Bikes East receives no government funding and all of our services are provided free of charge. Without the support of our amazing fundraisers, volunteers and corporate sponsors, we simply could not continue to provide this vital service.
But we are growing and so our need for supporters, both financial and otherwise, is ever increasing!
Can Your Company Help?
We urgently need corporate sponsors from companies large or small. We want to add more bikes to our fleet, the bikes we have need maintenance and eventually need to be replaced and all this involves large capital investments.
We have sponsorship packages available that will allow you to give to our charity and allow your business to be aligned with a respected and loved charity.
How Can YOU Help?
But you don't have to be a business to help. If you think you can contribute anything, from time, to funds or a helping hand, we would love to hear from you.
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It's the middle of the night, it's cold and it's raining. The phone rings and it's answered immediately by the Blood Bikes East controller. There's an urgent package that needs transporting between two hospitals. It could be blood, blood products, breast milk, medical products, samples for testing, test results or even transplant related tissue.
The controller calls one of the on-duty riders, who is on his or her way in less than five minutes. Thirty minutes later the item has been delivered and the biker registers another completed delivery with the controller who is ready for the next urgent call.
That's what we do - 7 nights a week and around the clock at weekends.
Blood Bikes East provides an emergency medical transport service between the hospitals in Dublin and the Greater Leinster area.
This is all done by volunteers in their free time for no financial reward and completely FREE of charge to our contracted hospitals.
We saved hospitals in the Greater Dublin area over €500,000 since our inception in 2013, with the majority of that saving occurring in 2015 and 2016. Indeed, 2016 surpassed all previous records, as we completed 3,528 medical transports.
What Others Say
Doing what we do and knowing that we help people every time we go out, is payment enough, but sometimes we get an email, a card or just a note of thanks and that really does light us up!
Here are some examples of what people have said about us and this vital service we provide.
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John Gallagher - Dublin
Hope all the people in the health boards appreciate your efforts as much as the rest of the country do.
Orla Lawler Carvin - Duleek
Well done guys. You are all living saints. xx
Erica Shiraz - Clare
Team work from Earth Angels. Respect and gratitude to you all. Stay Safe.
John O Loughlin and all the team in the Rotunda Pathology Dept.
Well done guys. Always a pleasure to deal with and make a big difference for those patients who most need you. Keep up the good work.
Siobhan Darby - Clane
What fantastic, selfless work you all do, as a sibling of a cancer patient who has had to have transfusions...i can't thank you all enough....unsung heroes, all of you....safe riding all.
Peter Dolan - Dundalk
Don't know how you do it. You are miracle workers!
Padraic O'Riordan - Mullingar
Be safe. Great service provided by a great bunch of bikers.
Blood Bikes East Facebook Posts
All Vehicles In Action & A Lovely Thank You
With 19 transports completed yesterday, it was a busy day. So much so that both our Annesley Williams Skoda Yeti and our Zurich Insurance Kawasaki GTR were both called into duty.
Una Kelly managed the riders. Our City Riders were:
Moira Donohoe
Dennis Brown
Andrew O'Reilly
Brendan Conroy
While Graham Hastings met up with our friends at Blood Bike West to complete a delivery to the IBTS.
Well Done All.
One of our riders, Tom Martin, today shared a lovely story as follows:
"I was at the end of a link up with Blood Bike South delivering scans and an x-ray to Tallaght. Having delivered them to the ward, I was leaving when I was approached in reception by an elderly lady on crutches. She said she has seen me arriving, recognised the BBE bike, and waited to catch me as I left. We chatted for a while. She told me that she had recently been discharged from hospital. She knew all about the service we provide. She especially asked me to pass on her thanks to all our volunteer riders, controllers and administrators for everything we do. What a lovely way to finish a run!"
What a lovely way indeed!
#RidersForLife #AllVolunteers #WhatWeDo #BloodBikes
Thank you to our wonderful sponsors:
Annesley Williams, ŠKODA Ireland, Zurich, Arachas Insurance, AXA Ireland, Extreme Ireland / Irish Day Tours, ID Security Systems, InCar Solutions, IPB Insurance & #EveryoneWhoDonates
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WHAT DID YOU DO ON FRIDAY NIGHT?
For some people Friday night signifies the start of a weekend of relaxation, time to unwind after a busy week in work. For Blood Bikes East it's the start of our weekend cover, which operates from 7pm on Friday till 6am on Monday morning(Sunday operating times on bank holidays). Blood Bikes East operates a Free Emergency Medical Transport Service to the hospitals in the greater Dublin area.
Who benefits from this service? The simple answer is everyone. As Blood Bikes East's service is FREE, the hospitals save money transporting items between hospitals and laboratories. This money can then be used for providing patient care and front line services.
Blood Bikes East transports items like medical devices, patient charts, medicine, medical devices, disks, documents, various sample types and donated breast milk.
Last nights volunteer controller was Una Kelly.
The volunteer riders were John Neville, Martin Farrelly and Thomas Martin.
Thank you for your service
Go raibh maith agat as do sheirbhís.
#RidersForLife #AllVolunteers #WhatWeDo #BloodBikes
Blood Bikes East would also like to thank it's sponsors for their support:
Annesley Williams, ŠKODA Ireland, Zurich, Arachas Insurance, AXA Ireland, Extreme Ireland / Irish Day Tours, ID Security Systems, InCar Solutions, IPB Insurance & #EveryoneWhoDonates
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SATURDAY RIDER SAFETY
Yield - Even When You Shouldn't Have To!
This video on another page is entitled "Who's At Fault?" It's a ridiculous title in a way because the legal/insurance fault would be given to the van driver as he cut across 2 lanes, at short notice, upon realizing he was going the wrong way, and cut into the motorcyclist's lane.
However, as motorcyclists you cannot simply think in terms of fault. establishing fault means that, by definition, a situation has occurred and that means that you were in the wrong place, no matter who is to blame!
If you rewind, you see that although the motorcyclist is in the lane before the van driver puts his indicators on, he has plenty of warning that the van driver is going to make a maneuver. The position of the motorcyclist means that he/she was in the van driver's blind spot and not enough 'cagers' do life-saver style over-the-shoulder checks. So he simply didn't see anyone in that space. As the van driver begins to pull into his lane, the motorcyclist should, as the more vulnerable of the 2 road users, have given way. This would have put him/her well out of harm's way, despite having right of way.
Had the van driver made a more aggressive maneuver, the motorcyclist's unyielding riding style could have landed him/her in hospital at best, and given the speed speed and amount of other traffic, perhaps even the morgue!
So, look ahead. Anticipate situations and yield, even when you shouldn't have to.
#RideSafe #WeAreAdvancedRiders RoSPA Rospaiart Iart
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The video that has opinions SPLIT! 😮
Should the rider have been more alert? Or was the driver being reckless...
EMERGENCY MEETING
It's not very often that Blood Bikes East would classify a transport as an emergency run, however Thursday the 2nd of November changed that. Blood Bikes East's newest controller Una Kelly was asked to facilitate two emergency transports and a regular link up with Blood Bike Mid West.
Blood Bikes East's Mark Moore met with Derek Duffy of Cú Chulainn Blood Bikes - CCBB, Est. 2016 and completed an emergency transport to Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children on their behalf.
Blood Bikes East's Michael O' Driscoll completed an emergency transport between Tallaght Hospital and Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children.
Blood Bikes East volunteer rider Arthur Cagney met with Blood Bike Mid West's volunteer rider Richie O' Connell and completed a transport to Temple Street Children's Hospital on their behalf.
Last nights volunteer controller was Una Kelly,
Thank you for your service
Go raibh maith agat as do sheirbhís.
#RidersForLife #AllVolunteers #WhatWeDo #BloodBikes
Sincere thanks is also due to our wonderful sponsors:
Annesley Williams, ŠKODA Ireland, Zurich, Arachas Insurance, AXA Ireland, Extreme Ireland / Irish Day Tours, ID Security Systems, InCar Solutions, IPB Insurance & #EveryoneWhoDonates
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CANDY CARNAGE
As parents and children awoke to find the remnants of a candy carnage, scattered wrappers and half eaten sweets strewn about after a frenzied sugar rush. Blood Bikes East volunteer rider Jackson Hutchinson answered his first call of the day.
As revellers returned home from a night on the tiles or from parties long since forgotten, dressed in their crumpled and defunct costumes. Volunteer rider Jackson Hutchinson passed them by dressed in his Blood Bikes East' hi-viz tabard and protective motorcycle gear.
Later that evening John Graham and Jackson Hutchinson provided Blood Bikes East's Free Emergency Medical Transport Service to the hospitals in the greater Dublin area, transporting 10 samples (5 of which were urgent) during the night.
Last nights volunteer controller was Una Kelly.
Thank you for your service
Go raibh maith agat as do sheirbhís.
#RidersForLife #AllVolunteers #WhatWeDo #BloodBikes
Sincere thanks is also due to our wonderful sponsors:
Annesley Williams, ŠKODA Ireland, Zurich, Arachas Insurance, AXA Ireland, Extreme Ireland / Irish Day Tours, ID Security Systems, InCar Solutions, IPB Insurance & #EveryoneWhoDonates
Join Us Or Donate At: www.bloodbikeseast.ie
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