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To encourage people to think and talk about the subject of organ donation and to try and encourage people to take the proactive step of signing the organ donor register.
It takes no money, no effort, and just TWO MINUTES of your time to register as an organ donor.
Give the gift of life. Join the NHS Organ Donor Register.
Organ Donor Line 0845 60 60 400
https://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/Consent.do?campaign=1160
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Friday, February 13 at 9:00am
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- I'd Give You One
- Category:
- Common Interest -
- Description:
- Our Aim:
To encourage people to think and talk about the subject of organ donation and to try and encourage people to take the proactive step of signing the organ donor register.
It takes no money, no effort, and just TWO MINUTES of your time to register as an organ donor.
Give the gift of life. Join the NHS Organ Donor Register.
Organ Donor Line 0845 60 60 400
https://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/Consent.do?campaign=1160
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Recent News
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- 13.11.09 - Check out our blog to see why Phil Jupitus is clutching a Save Jess T-shirt! http://www.livelifethengivelife.blogspot.com
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02.11.09 - STOP PRESS: NHSBT have launched their new hard-hitting campaign today to try to encourage more people to take the proactive step of signing the organ donor register. Take a look at the website to see the new look - http://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/ukt/default.jsp - we'd love to hear what you think!
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17.10.09 - Save Jess-tival took place last night and was absolutely fantastic! Massive thanks to all the artists, as well as the hard-working volunteers who made the event possible and such a wonderful night. Watch our LLTGL blog or a full review coming soon!
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06.10.09 - Save Jess-tival tickets are on sale NOW! To book, visit http://tinyurl.com/ydagkyj
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05.10.09 - We are very very excited to announce our upcoming ‘Save Jess-tival', a fantastic night of music and comedy to honour our wonderful Jess and to encourage people to "think about it, talk about it and do something about it" (organ donation that is!)
Our headline acts are: stunning singer Natalie Imbruglia, and Canadian comedian Glenn Wool and Mock the Week favourite Ed Byrne, with more to announce later in the week.
This star-studded fundraiser will place on the evening of Friday October 16th at The Village Underground in Shoreditch, London. Doors open at 7.00pm.
For more info on our 'Save Jess' campaign, please visit http://www.savejess.org.uk/
All proceeds come to LLTGL, so please do come along and support us as well as having a great night out!
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26.09.09 - Holly Shaw and several other lovely advocates have organised a sponsored abseil to raise money for LLTGL. You can check it out and sponsor them here: http://www.justgiving.com/LLTGL-abseil/
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25.09.09 - Jess is improving and we are confident she is fighting back...for now. The sad fact remains that she is desperately running out of time and her lungs cannot hold out much longer. The #savejess campaign is absolutely flying! All sorts of celebrities including Beverley Knight, Bill Bailey and Vernon Kay are joining the twitter-based campaign to raise awareness about Organ Donation. Haven't heard about it yet? Check out www.savejess.org.uk for more info.
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19.09.09 - Our Advocate Jess is very poorly at the moment. She's been waiting for new lungs for 4 years now and is now just fighting to keep breathing. Please keep her in your thoughts and please spread the word. About us, about her, about Organ Donation. Jess is fighting with every breath, we can fight for her in spreading the word. Thank you.
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10.09.09 - **STOP PRESS** Last night LLTGL walked away with Best New Charitiy 2009 at the Charity Times Awards! Watch the blog for more details and pics. Thank you all so much for your ongoing support.
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07.08.09 - In need of some inspiration? Take 5 minutes to watch this video of Jess taken at the Adidas Challenge yesterday: http://www.tinyurl.com/l9f29f
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01.09.09 - LLTGL Advocates Jess and Lou are taking on physical challenges to raise funds for us: http://livelifethengivelife.blogspot.com/2009/08/definition-of-challenge.html
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24.08.09 - On Saturday 22nd August, our wonderful advocates came together for their first advocate away weekend! Watch the blog for updates and pics!
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10.08.09 - A nice cheap way of supporting us plus giving yourself the chance to win £10k - adopt a little duck for just £3 for the Great British Duck Race! Go here to do so: http://www.thegreatbritishduckrace.co.uk/o/lltgl
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21.07.09 - Why we do what we do: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=88804&id=21841769098&ref=nf
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02.07.09 - Thanks to all of you who have written to or visited your local cinemas already as part of our latest initiative: http://www.lltgl.org.uk/mysisterskeeper - there's still plenty of time if you haven't managed to but want to.
Also, if you haven't done so already, head over to http://www.walloflife.org.uk and add your pic to the NHSBT project.
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17.06.09 - You could save lives simply by writing to your local cinema! For more info take a look at http://www.lltgl.org.uk/mysisterskeeper/
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01.06.09 - LLTGL has been out and about doing more filming. You can watch all our videos here: http://www.lltgl.org.uk/projects/media_project/
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18.05.09 - This weekend some of the LLTGL team were priviledged to attend Team Ethan's fundraiser in Manchester. Check our blog for updates soon.
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12.05.09 - On Saturday 9th May, Team Jac battled wind and rain to walk 10 miles and raise over £10,000 for LLTGL! Massive well done to all who took part; there's still time to sponsor them: http://www.justgiving.com/teamjac
Are you waiting for a transplant? Gifts of Life photography project needs you! Take a look at http://www.giftsoflife.co.uk for more info.
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09.05.09 - LLTGL were extremely sad to hear that gorgeous little Ethan passed away on 1st May. His family are still raising funds in his name, send a message of support here: http://tinyurl.com/qys2ep
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20.04.09 - Want a chance to win £10,000 and raise money for LLTGL? Click here to buy your £3 duck for the Great British Duck Race! http://www.thegreatbritishduckrace.co.uk/o/lltgl
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19.04.09 - Mother of 5 year old Bethany who recently received a new liver blogs about why Robyn's Rainbows is so important: http://fairenuff-familypficblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/robyns-rainbows.html
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09.04.09 - Holly's Donor Day was an amazing success attracting National Media attention, celebrity support, a quote from the PM, and most importantly, thousands of sign ups! Find out more at www.thegiftoflife.org.uk
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03.04.09 - Fantastic news, Ethan got his Transplant! It's early days yet but we are delighted for him and his family and of course keeping his precious donor in our thoughts.
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21.03.9 - Please take a minute to look at the plea from Ethan's dad on the discussion board. Could you donate something to help the family in their fundraiser? Contact any of the LLTGL team if you think you can help. Thank you.
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10.03.09 - Mothers day is coming up...buying flowers? If you get them from here we get a 10% donation from the lovely people at Bunches! http://www.bunches.co.uk/aff/lltgl
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28.02.09 - The cake bake was a huge success! Massive thanks to everyone who held one; you can get the money to us easily at http://www.justgiving.com/gvcb
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13.02.09 - It's Cake Bake Day today!! See http://www.lltgl.org.uk/awareness_and_fundraising/gvcb/ for more details!
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09.02.09 - Ordering Valentines flowers for someone special? Pls order them through http://www.bunches.co.uk/aff/lltgl and we get a 10% donation!
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06.01.09 - Happy New Year everyone! Don't forget for more regular updates on what we're up to, take a look at our blog: http://www.livelifethengivelife.blogspot.com
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03.11.09 - Advocate Holly Shaw has had her transplant AND has won the Battlefront competition! Check out her progress on her blog http://www.lifeondialysis-waitingforthecall.blogspot.com
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We now have three ways you can help us raise money to continue raising awareness about transplants and organ donation
1.You can donate directly via http://www.justgiving.com/livelifegivelife/donate
2.You can raise money by doing something mad and crazy like run a marathon
http://www.justgiving.com/livelifegivelife/raisemoney
3.You can donate to our special Robyn's Rainbows fund, which aims to offer a beacon of hope to those affected by transplants who are struggling or having a bad time
http://www.justgiving.com/robynsrainbows
If anyone you know is suffering, you can nominate them to received a Robyn's Rainbow by emailing one of us.
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STOP PRESS!!!!
Live Life Then Give Life’s remarkable start as a charity has been capped with a prestigious national award. The team walked away with “Campaigning Team of the Year” at the Charity Times Awards 2008.
In their citation, the judges stated: “This was an outstanding campaign made up of many effective and innovative strands and approaches, achieving great success.”
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11/09/08 - On Saturday the 5th, LLTGL were invited to the British Organ Donor Society's (BODY) annual thanksgiving and remembrance service for donors and their families at Wimpole National Trust, where we were honored to have a tree dedicated to our charity. The service was a moving and humbling recognition of the selfless acts of organ donation that have saved countless numbers of lives.
Live Life Then Give Life continued to push the agenda on organ donation with a lunchtime lecture at the Department of Health on the 3rd. The team spoke with Chris Rudge, who is the new "Transplant Tsar" in charge of implementing the recommendations of the Organ Donor Taskforce report published last September.
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22/08/08 - Live Life Then Give Life has been shortlisted to receive a Charity Times Award at a glittering awards ceremony next month! This is a massive achievement for a charity as small and youthful as ours, especially since the others in our category are all well-established organisations with bigger budgets.
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21/07/08 - Gerry Frewin is taking on a series of challenges to raise money for LLTGL. Please take a look at www.justgiving.com/gerryfrewin
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16/07/08 - Calling all our Welsh Supporters!! We are very proud to be a member charity of a fantastic new campaign called DONATE WALES! For more information on the campaign please visit: http://www.donatewales.org
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28/03/08 - LLTGL GIVEN OFFICIAL CHARITABLE STATUS
We are extremely proud and excited to announce that as of 27th March 2008, Live Life Then Give Life is officially a registered charity!
Thank you to you all for your continued support,
The LLTGL Team.
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28/01/08 - HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here's hoping it's the biggest and best yet for Live Life Then Give Life...and to kick it off to a fantastic start, the lovely guys from "Big Buzzard and the Organ Grinders" have produced a single and are donating all proceeds to us: www.haveoneofmine.com
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21/11/07 - Fantastic news! Our chief media whore Oli Lewington finally got the call he had been waiting and hoping for for 2 1/2 years....please keep him and his family in your thoughts, and of course the amazing person who made this possible - his donor.
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13/09/07 - Very sadly Robyn Tainty, the poster girl for this years National Transplant Week, passed away on Tuesday 11th after waiting over 2 years for a transplant that never came.
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09/08/07 - The UK Transplant registration phoneline is now open 24 hours a day. Sign up anytime on 0845 60 60 400!
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On Tuesday 17th July Sir Liam Donaldson released his annual report which included the opinion that this country should move to an opt out system. There has been much media hype about this proposal but if you want to read the real stuff, click here: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/AnnualReports/DH_076817 and download chapter four. Then you can make an informed decision as to your opinion on his ideas.
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18 year old Jessica has also been featured on Channel 5 news: To view her interview click here: http://news.five.tv/features_story.asp?id=510&fid=226
See 18 year old Jessica's plea by clicking here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6650000/newsid_6659800/6659877.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm
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We are very sad to announce that Sian, who set up this group and was desperately hoping for a life saving transplant, lost her fight in February this year. Sian's battle a fierce reminder of why this group is in existance and why more work MUST be done to raise awareness of organ donation.
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Jan 5th - EMILY, 1 OF THE GROUP CREATORS, HAS HAD HER DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANT.
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