🩸 Last Week Rebecca attended the NHS Blood and Transplant’s Parliamentary Drop-in to promote the importance of becoming a blood, plasma, platelets, or stem cells donor.

Every day the NHS needs 5,000 new blood donations - the equivalent of 3 every minute - to help treat patients with cancer, blood disorders and those suffering medical trauma or undergoing surgery.

This need for blood never stops. Right now, there is a particular need for more people with O negative and B negative blood types and for more donors of Black heritage to help sickle cell patients who rely on ethnically matched blood.

That is why it is so important that many of us can do something amazing by giving up just an hour of our day and a pint of blood. If you are generally fit and well and between 17-65 years of age, it is likely you can donate.

There are currently over 60,000 appointments available at donor centres across the country over the next 6 weeks. For more information, check eligibility or to book an appointment, visit: www.blood.co.uk.

After the event, Rebecca said: "I am proud to support such a good cause which helps keep our NHS strong and saves lives. A single donation can change up to three lives - an extraordinary impact from such a small act."