The Platelet Society has 3 places in the 2022 Ride London Cycle event due to take place on the 29th May 2022. Are you an enthusiastic cyclist looking to compete in this prestigious event, or do you know a cyclist who would love to take on the challenge and raise some funds to support the […]
Platelet Society member, Giordano Pula ran a fantastic London Marathon today, knocking a whole 5 mins off his marathon personal best. A platelet scientist, now working in Germany, Giordano was selected to run the London Marathon on behalf of the Society following a search earlier in the year. Upon being offered the place Giordano said […]
Marathon day has finally arrived… All the prep has led to this. We will be posting info throughout the day on Giordano’s progress, keep a track here or via social media. If you wish to sponsor Giordano and the work of the Society, click the button
Great news! You can now support the Platelet Society whilst you shop and help the work of the Society. If you are an exisitng Amazon customer, all you need to do is visit https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1172202-0 and search ‘platelet’ under the charities. Once selected Amazon will donate 0.5% of the net purchase price (excluding VAT, returns and […]
The Platelet Society has a place in the 2021 London Marathon available and has opened this up for expressions of Interest from runners. The marathon is due to take place on the 3rd October 2021. Are you an enthusiastic runner looking to compete in this prestigious event, or do you know a runner who would […]
The Platelet Society has secured a number of places at the highly sought after Velo – Birmingham & Midlands cycle event. Being held on Sunday 21st June 2020, Velo is a 100 mile cycle road around the West Midlands on closed roads. It is a great day out and hopefully we should be able to […]
On the 1st of July 2018 four brave members of the platelet community travelled to Corvara in the Dolomite mountains in north eastern Italy to take place in one of the world’s toughest mass participation events in the cycling calendar; the Maratona does Dolomites. Over a distance of 138 km 12,000 competitors traverse 7 mountain […]
Many congratulations to Pip Nicolson, Alastair Poole, Dannie Seddon and our chairman Khalid Naseem on successfully completing the Maratona dles Dolomites Sportive on the 1st July. More details and info to follow. Don’t forget you can still donate to the platelet society! https://mydonate.bt.com/events/plateletsocietysportive/466725
Our thanks to Dr Marloes Tijssen and her colleagues at All Saints Church in Newmarket on Saturday 5th September for a fundraising evening of wine, cheese and musical entertainment. The evening raised £500 for platelet research. Thank you!