Anthony Nolan is a UK

charity Charity may refer to: Giving * Charitable organization or charity, a non-profit organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being of persons * Charity (practice), the practice of being benevolent, giving and sharing * Ch ...

that works in the areas of

leukaemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ' ...

and

hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood in order to replicate inside of a patient and to produc ...

. It manages and recruits donors to the Anthony Nolan Register, which is part of an aligned registry that also includes the ''Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry'',

NHS Blood and Transplant NHS Blood and Transplant is an executive non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom's Department of Health and Social Care. It was established on 1 October 2005 to take over the responsibilities of two separate NHS agencies: UK Transplan ...

's ''British Bone Marrow Registry'' and Deutsche KnochenMarkSpenderdatei ( DKMS) UK. This aligned register is known as the ''Anthony Nolan & NHS Stem Cell Registry''. It also carries out research to help make bone marrow transplants more effective.

History

The charity is named after Anthony Nolan (born 1971–died 1979), who did not suffer from leukaemia but from

Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a rare X-linked recessive disease characterized by eczema, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), immune deficiency, and bloody diarrhea (secondary to the thrombocytopenia). It is also sometimes called the eczem ...

, a rare inherited blood disorder. It was founded by Anthony's mother

Shirley Nolan Shirley Nolan or Shirley Oakey (10 February 1942 – 3 December 2001) was a British teacher who set up the Anthony Nolan Register to allow Bone marrow transplants. Her son died and she was diagnosed with Parkinson disease taking her own life in 20 ...

(1942–2001) in 1974 as the Anthony Nolan Register. Initially based at the Westminster Children's Hospital, it moved to

St Mary Abbots Hospital St Mary Abbots Hospital was a hospital that operated from 1871 to 1992 at a site on Marloes Road in Kensington, London. History The hospital building, which was designed by Alfred Williams as a workhouse infirmary and built by John T. Chappell, ...

in 1978 and to its present offices, laboratory and research institute in north London, in the grounds of the Royal Free Hospital. The charity was renamed in 2001 as the Anthony Nolan Trust. and again in 2010 to Anthony Nolan. In 2008 Anthony Nolan set up the UK's first dedicated cord blood bank, allowing mothers to safely donate the blood from their umbilical cord and placenta after they give birth, the charity then use this blood in their stem cell transplants. In 2012 Anthony Nolan became the first stem cell register in the world to start recruiting 16-year-olds.

Present day

Today the register has over 720,000 potential donors on it. One of the charity's main aims is to recruit more male donors, as they are the most likely to be chosen by doctors to donate, and are selected for 54% of donations. A student organisation operating in universities throughout the UK known as 'Marrow' works with Anthony Nolan to recruit potential donors to the register and raise awareness of the charity and blood cancers within universities and their local communities. It was set up in 1998 at the

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and now operates in more than 50 universities in the UK and worldwide. In 2014, Anthony Nolan was the official charity partner for the

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named an

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tram in his honour.

Daniel De Gale African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) is an independent UK charity for peoplewith leukaemia and other life-threatening disorders. The ACLT aims to raise awareness on stem cell, blood and organ donation in the UK, with a particular focus on bla ...

(1987–2008), a leukaemia patient, inspired his mother Beverley and her partner, Orin Lewis, to set up the

African-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) is an independent UK charity for peoplewith leukaemia and other life-threatening disorders. The ACLT aims to raise awareness on stem cell, blood and organ donation in the UK, with a particular focus on bla ...

in June 1996. ACLT worked "in partnership with the ... Nolan Trust" to build the number of bone marrow donors, specifically of African, African Caribbean, and mixed parentage on the UK register.Truman, Peter
"Leukaemia campaigner Daniel De Gale dies"
''Croydon Guardian'', 9 October 2008; retrieved 18 February 2011. The organisation organizes several novel campaigns to increase the number of donors joining the registry. For example, it organised the Spit and Save a life campaign in 2010 which featured

Devaanshi Mehta Devaanshi Mehta (18 December 1996 – 28 June 2012) was a British - Indian student and humanitarian. She started the Asian Donor Campaign (ADC), a UK-based non-profit organisation whose goal is to raise awareness for the need to get more Asians ...

(1996-2012), an aplastic anemia patient. During the campaign donors could join the registry and find out if they could save a life by simply giving a sample of their saliva.

Olivia Colman Sarah Caroline Sinclair ( Colman; born 30 January 1974), known professionally as Olivia Colman, is an English actress. Known for her comedic and dramatic roles in film and television, she has received various accolades, including an Academy A ...

became Patron of Anthony Nolan in 2018.

References

External links

Anthony Nolan homepage

Marrow
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History

Present day

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