FUND-RAISERS are offering Chorley people a chance to make a different contribution to the fight against leukaemia.

Chorley Round Table is organising a bone marrow donor clinic to help the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust.

The trust is desperately short of potential donors. A bone marrow transplant is often the only hope left for leukaemia victims.

The clinic is being financed with £2,500 raised from a sponsored cycle from Glasgow to Inverness, which Round Table members completed last year.

The Anthony Nolan Trust, which keeps a national register of potential bone marrow donors, was set up in 1974 by Shirley Nolan, whose son, Anthony, was born with an incurable bone marrow disorder in 1971.

Sadly, he died at the age of seven, but Shirley vowed to create a national register.

Although all donations are welcome, the trust is desperately short of donations from men and members of all ethnic minorities.

Donors must be between the ages of 18 and 40, in good health and weighing more than eight stone.

Anyone not matching the criteria can make a cash gift to the charity on 0990 111517.

The Round Table session takes place at St Mary's Club, Devonshire Road, Chorley, on Monday, April 17.

For more details, or to book an appointment, contact Ian Simmonds on 01257 249056 or write to him at 12 Chester Avenue, Duxbury, Chorley PR7 4AG before April 10 with details of your name, address and the time you would be able to attend the clinic.

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