Sports Supports Blood Donation

Support your community by joining the giveblood.ie Team! Whether you’re a sports fan, an athlete, a club, or a sporting organisation, you have the power to save lives.

Blood donation is vital to the successful running of our health services; without blood, surgeries and treatments cannot go ahead. 1 in 4 people will require a blood transfusion in their lifetime, which means many people in your club could rely on these lifesaving donations.

Promote Upcoming Local Blood Donation Clinics to Your Community

Prior to any clinic in your area (usually every 3 months or so), our local Area Manager can contact your club and provide you with details to promote the upcoming clinic within your club and to your community. The more people who know about the clinic, the better!

You could sending text / WhatsApp messages to members, promote it on the club social media pages, or put up a poster in the hall - whatever works best for you to get the messages out!

Click here to register your club to receive information about upcoming clinics

Help Recruit New Donors

There is a constant need for more blood donors; in fact, we need 15,000 new blood donors this year! We especially need to recruit donors with many years of donating left in them. Sports clubs are in a great position to help young people form the habit of giving blood, that they may continue for their lifetime.

Many of the 200 people transfused daily in our hospitals are young people fighting life threatening illnesses. Just 5 new donors per clinic would give us half of all the new donors we need to recruit each year, and help those fighting illness.

Ways you can promote blood donation might be:

• distribute leaflets about giving blood,
• talk to younger people about your experiences as a donor and why you do it,
• refer potential donors to the website giveblood.ie to see if they can give blood,
• inform them about joining the bone marrow registry,
• for donors in the greater Dublin and Cork areas, promote the fixed centre platelets clinics in those areas.

Offer A Location For Future Blood Clinics

Our mobile blood collection teams travel the length and bredth of Ireland and occasionally need new locations for their collection clinics. To ensure the safety of our donors and the donations, we have a set of important criteria for new venues. You can find those here, along with contact details if you believe you meet those criteria.