1 September 2008

We were very sad to hear the news that 26 year old Adrian Sudbury passed away on Wednesday 20th August. ADRIAN Sudbury worked hard during the last months of his life to promote charities linked to leukaemia and bone marrow donation.

When pupils go back to school in September, there will be Give And Let Live education packs waiting for their teachers. These have been adjusted to suit 16 to 18-year-olds thanks to Adrian Sudbury’s campaign and have been sent by the Government to every school and college in the UK, along with a letter from Health Secretary Alan Johnson and Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. It will not be compulsory for teachers to deliver the education talks – but the letter will urge them to fit a talk into their curriculum.

For those of you who may not have heard of this remarkable young man, Adrian was a journalist from Sheffield in England and had been diagnosed with two types of leukaemia in November 2006 - the only person in history to have had such a condition. A bone marrow transplant was unsuccessful and only a few months ago Adrian was told the leukaemia was terminal. He decided to stop further treatment.

His campaign was simple…to get the word out about donating bone marrow, in an attempt to help more and more people who need bone marrow transplants to survive.
Now, following his death from leukaemia,, you can help carry on the support he started by circulating this article and video to family and friends encouraging then to consider joining the Bone Marrow Register.