Whiteknights E.V.S Mission Statement

“Our mission is to bring an emergency blood motorcycle service to Cleveland to ease the burden on the NHS.”

On the 6th June 2011 we completed this mission. So it is only fitting that we produce a revised mission statement.

“Our mission is to serve the people of Cleveland by continuing to provide an emergency motorcycle service transport urgent and non-urgent medical items on behalf of the NHS”

In an attempt to raise £10,000 to bring the service to life in Cleveland we carried out a number of fundraising initiatives, firstly the Bloodrun 2010.

On June 13th 2010 three intrepid motorcycle riders set off from Cleveland in the North East of England on a 3000-mile motorcycle trip around the UK coastline on two very special motorcycles. One was an emergency blood motorcycle on loan from the Whiteknights Emergency Voluntary Service, the other was fitted with recording equipment in order for them to film their journey.

Mark Say, Jon Formstone and Steve Basford volunteered their time to promote awareness of an incredibly important group of volunteer motorcyclists who deliver blood and other vital items out of hours for NHS hospitals and medical centres.

These compassionate Motorcycle riders are all volunteers and are funded purely by donations from the public and local businesses. This allows funds from the NHS to go straight back in to patient care. The volunteers are on call from 7pm to 7am 365 days-a-year including weekends! Weather dependent of course, motorcycles don’t really like snow!!

Mark, Jon and Steve managed to raise somewhere in the ballpark of £6500 for the Whiteknights EVS Charity and subsequently had two Honda VFR motorcycles donated as bloodbikes. Subsequently via the Middlesbrough and Teesside Philanthropic Foundation and the Tees valley Community Foundation two KLE 500′s were donated for use in the winter months. You can read about the generosity of our donors in the Blog section.

Whiteknights EVS registered charity number is: 1124510.

Please support us as much as you can and please get in touch if you feel you can bring anything to the cause (including becoming a volunteer rider). Should you also wish to make an online secured donation then please click the dontation button to the right and donate any sum you can.

Best wishes, and thank you!

The Bloodrun Team