A TEAM of bike riders travelling from John O'Groats to Land's End will stop in Tavistock to hold a clinic for people interested in helping to save a life by joining the blood stem cell donor registers.
The tour riders and support crew from the Anthony Nolan Trust and the Round Table will stop in Tavistock on the afternoon of Monday, June 10, the penultimate day of the 'Big Bike Tour'.
Joining the riders on the day's leg from Burnham-on-Sea will be Tavistock Round Table's own intrepid Steve Snale.
From 5pm onwards an information and donor clinic will be open in the first floor office of Pearl Assurance House, Elbow Lane, Tavistock, where medically-trained staff will be on hand to take blood samples from anyone who feels able to commit to being on the blood cell donor register.
The team will start the life-saving eleven-day bike marathon from John O'Groats to Land's End on June 1.
Donor clinics along the length of the route have been organised where people can find out more about becoming volunteers.
The Anthony Nolan Trust, a nationally nominated charity for Round Table this year, was established 30 years ago by Shirley Nolan in an attempt to save the life of her son, Anthony, who was suffering from an immune deficiency disease.
Sadly, he died five years later without finding a matching donor, but the trust has grown and there are now more than a quarter of a million volunteers on the register helping to save the lives of patients with leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases.
If you are in good health, aged between 18 and 40, weigh at least eight stone and are willing to donate stem cells in hospital, then you could join the register and offer the chance of life to someone.