Why Support Us
SERV Wessex is a registered charity established by local volunteers to deliver essential blood and urgent medical supplies, between hospitals and other healthcare sites in Hampshire, South Wiltshire and East Dorset.
During weekdays we support the human milk bank in Southampton by providing a collection service from mums in the community and then providing an urgent delivery service from the milk bank to neo natal units in our operational area.
Outside normal office hours, hospitals rely on taxis, couriers or front line emergency vehicles to transfer urgent medical supplies or samples between hospitals and other sites. Blood Bike groups, across the country, offer to carry out this service free of charge, ensuring the limited resources of the NHS can be used where it makes a difference.
SERV Wessex Blood Bikes’ funding comes entirely from charitable donations, and the service is provided solely by volunteers, giving their own free time to help others. In critical situations, blood or other medical items need to be delivered urgently in order to save a patient’s life. Blood bikes, with their distinctive livery, and narrow profile, can quickly get through busy traffic to reach their destination.
For bulky items, or in extreme weather conditions, we use cars too, to ensure our service is available every day of the year.
We also support the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance Service with continuous deliveries to its aircraft base with fresh blood carried on the aircraft and their critical care cars.
We performed over 3000 operational deliveries in 2024. Covering 130,000 miles, 68% of which was completed by volunteers using their own vehicles and covering all their own costs.
This service provides a significant saving to the NHS, which can be spent on patient care and other NHS priorities.
Whilst motorcycles are the main stay of our work, when the weather inclement or temperatures preclude the use of motorcycles, they are removed from duty and we move to 4 wheels.
When our volunteers use our marked vehicles, the costs are covered by the charity. We believe that our volunteers already do amazing things simply by giving up their time to giving up their time to support the charity. By providing and maintaining our fleet, we can try and limit the financial burden on our volunteers. With help from our sponsors we can we can keep our fleet current.
This is where you come in. With the cost of a new bikes running into thousands of pounds, it can take a considerable period of time for us to raise enough money to purchase one and have it ready for operation duty. That is an awfully long time stood in the street or outside supermarkets with a collecting box. With a few reasonable donations from commercial sponsors, we could save a lot of time and allow our members to do what they do best – deliver vital goods and services to hospitals.
If you sponsor us we can offer a range of incentives. Apart from the warm feeling you would get from supporting a good cause, we can display your logo on our website. These can be linked through to your own website so that our viewers become your potential customers. We can offer recommendations of goods and services or even display your company logo on our vehicles and events trailer. Our members regularly stand outside supermarkets, shopping centres and at events throughout the year, raising the profile of our organisation.
If our banners feature your company logo or we have your leaflets on our table, you too can benefit from our interface with the public. There are many ways you can help, our vehicles need tyres, oil and parts. If you would like to know more or would like to become a sponsor, please contact Corporatefundraiser@servwessex.org.uk for details.