Registered charity number: 1180510
South West Blood Bikes (SWBB) is an entirely volunteer led and run charity that provides an out of hours emergency courier service( Blood Bikes) provided to the NHS & Hospices across the whole county of Devon, and beyond if required.
The volunteers of SWBB transport: Whole Blood, Pathology and Microbiology Samples, Donor Breast Milk, Medical Records and X-Rays, Medical Equipment, Test Kits, and medications - in fact anything that is required urgently by a medical facility, providing it can fit on a motorcycle( we do have some blood cars as well, used by volunteer drivers or in weather where it is not safe to ride the blood bikes). We provide our main service from 1700hrs to 0800hrs weekdays and provide 24-hour cover during weekends and public holidays. We also provide some urgent in hours services that NHS couriers cannot cover, depending on volunteer availability.
Our service is funded entirely by donations from the general public, community groups & businesses, some grant funding and volunteer fundraising.
Blood Bike charities save the NHS and Hospices they serve hundreds of thousands of £’s ever year, as if we were not providing this service, they would be forced to use expensive private couriers or even taxis to do the same job.
Since SWBB began in November 2018, we estimated to have saved the NHS over £500,000 in transportation costs,
